Schools
54 open schools are in scope, including 29 primary and 10 secondary schools. Bedford Modern School is the nearest published school at 365 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
MK41 7RA
Harpur · Bedford · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- MK41 7RA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 2015
- Terminated
- 1 January 2017
- Postcode area
- MK
- Postcode district
- MK41
- Postcode sector
- MK41 7
- Latitude
- 52.147112
- Longitude
- -0.486284
- British National Grid easting
- 503,672
- British National Grid northing
- 250,948
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Bedford · E06000055
- Electoral ward
- Harpur · E05014502
- Parish or community
- E43000273
- Westminster constituency
- Bedford · E14001084
- Output area
- E00088357
- Lower layer super output area
- Bedford 010C · E01017499
- Middle layer super output area
- Bedford 010 · E02003625
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore MK41
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 54
- Primary
- 29
- Secondary
- 10
- 365 m
Bedford Modern School
Other independent school
- 479 m
Great Ouse Primary Academy
Free schools
- 601 m
Edith Cavell Primary School
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,490
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,420
- Anti social behaviour 361
- Public order 269
- Other theft 231
- Criminal damage and arson 214
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- MK41 7 residents
- 12,222
Age bands in MK41 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.7%
2,192 residents
1,285 residents
3,289 residents
3,359 residents
2,478 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
GP practices
9
within 5 km straight-line
LINDEN ROAD SURGERY
13 LINDEN ROAD, BEDFORD, MK40 2DQ
ODS code E81060
621 m
ASHBURNHAM ROAD SURGERY
8 ASHBURNHAM ROAD, BEDFORD, MK40 1DS
ODS code E81615
1.4 km
QUEENS PARK HEALTH CENTRE
23C CARLISLE ROAD, QUEEN'S PARK, BEDFORD, MK40 4HR
ODS code E81021
1.6 km
THE DE PARYS GROUP
ENHANCED SERVICES CENTRE, BEDFORD HEALTH VILLAGE, 3 KIMBOLTON ROAD, BEDFORD, MK40 2NT
ODS code E81037
1.9 km
GOLDINGTON AVENUE SURGERY
85 GOLDINGTON AVENUE, BEDFORD, MK40 3DB
ODS code E81047
2.1 km
PRIORY MEDICAL CENTRE
48 THE GLEBE, CLAPHAM, BEDFORD, MK41 6GA
ODS code E81049
2.6 km
LONDON ROAD HEALTH CENTRE
84-86 LONDON ROAD, BEDFORD, MK42 0NT
ODS code E81019
2.9 km
KING STREET SURGERY
273 BEDFORD ROAD, KEMPSTON, BEDFORD, MK42 8QD
ODS code E81038
3.2 km
PUTNOE MEDICAL CENTRE PARTNERSHIP
93 QUEENS DRIVE, BEDFORD, MK41 9JE
ODS code E81029
3.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Sainsburys Clapham
BCT · Bedford
- 0.1 miles
Sainsburys Clapham
BCT · Bedford
- 0.1 miles
Sainsburys Clapham
BCT · Bedford
- 0.2 miles
Sainsburys Clapham
BCT · Bedford
- 0.2 miles
Byron Crescent
BCT · Bedford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bedford 010C, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
4 of 10
Overall England rank
10,448 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
3,490 published events cover 12 months, averaging 290.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,420 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.