Schools
31 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 5 secondary schools. Wixams Academy is the nearest published school at 313 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
MK42 6GP
Houghton Conquest & Haynes · Central Bedfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire
- Postcode district
- MK42
- Postcode sector
- MK42 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- MK42 6GP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 August 2024
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- MK
- Postcode district
- MK42
- Postcode sector
- MK42 6
- Latitude
- 52.084625
- Longitude
- -0.468461
- British National Grid easting
- 505,038
- British National Grid northing
- 244,024
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Central Bedfordshire · E06000056
- Electoral ward
- Houghton Conquest & Haynes · E05014411
- Parish or community
- E04012807
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire · E14001359
- Output area
- E00177183
- Lower layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 008F · E01033817
- Middle layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 008 · E02003606
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 MK42
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 31
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 5
- 313 m
Wixams Academy
Free schools
- 389 m
Wixams Tree Primary Academy
Free schools
- 653 m
Willow Grove Primary School
Free schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 580
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 265
- Anti social behaviour 110
- Public order 45
- Criminal damage and arson 43
- Vehicle crime 28
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- MK42 6 residents
- 4,417
Age bands in MK42 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 30.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 38.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 14.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 9.2%
1,425 residents
370 residents
1,785 residents
660 residents
430 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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
3
within 5 km
THE VALE MEDICAL PRACTICE
WOOTTON VALE HLTH LIV CTR, FIELDS ROAD, WOOTTON, BEDFORD, MK43 9JJ
ODS code Y00560
4.2 km
KING STREET SURGERY
273 BEDFORD ROAD, KEMPSTON, BEDFORD, MK42 8QD
ODS code E81038
4.2 km
LONDON ROAD HEALTH CENTRE
84-86 LONDON ROAD, BEDFORD, MK42 0NT
ODS code E81019
4.7 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
Orchid Way
BCT · Wixams
- 0.4 miles
Orchid Way
BCT · Wixams
- 0.4 miles
Brooklands Avenue
BCT · Wixams
- 0.5 miles
Brooklands Avenue
BCT · Wixams
- 0.5 miles
Dove Lane
BCT · Wixams
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Central Bedfordshire 008F, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,170 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
580 published events cover 12 months, averaging 48.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 265 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.