Wixams & Wilstead · Bedford · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeWithin 3.1 miles of this postcode
Willow Grove Primary School
Free schools
Wixams Academy
Free schools
Wixams Tree Primary Academy
Free schools
Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
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.
4
within 5 km straight-line
273 BEDFORD ROAD, KEMPSTON, BEDFORD, MK42 8QD
ODS code E81038
3.5 km
WOOTTON VALE HLTH LIV CTR, FIELDS ROAD, WOOTTON, BEDFORD, MK43 9JJ
ODS code Y00560
3.6 km
84-86 LONDON ROAD, BEDFORD, MK42 0NT
ODS code E81019
4.3 km
23C CARLISLE ROAD, QUEEN'S PARK, BEDFORD, MK40 4HR
ODS code E81021
5.0 km
Orchid Way
BCT · Wixams
Orchid Way
BCT · Wixams
B+M Distribution Centre
BCT · Wixams
B+M Distribution Centre
BCT · Wixams
Wilstead Industrial Park
BCT · Wixams
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bedford 022C, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,167 of 33,755
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.
35 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 7 secondary schools. Willow Grove Primary School is the nearest published school at 331 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
557 published events cover 12 months, averaging 46.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 253 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.