Property market
The five-year median is £261,500 from 2 recorded sales in MK42 8BL. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Bedford is £329,830 in June 2026, up 4.4% year on year.
MK42 8BL
Kempston Central & East · Bedford · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- MK42 8BL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- MK
- Postcode district
- MK42
- Postcode sector
- MK42 8
- Latitude
- 52.119200
- Longitude
- -0.493832
- British National Grid easting
- 503,220
- British National Grid northing
- 247,833
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Bedford · E06000055
- Electoral ward
- Kempston Central & East · E05014504
- Parish or community
- E04011894
- Westminster constituency
- Bedford · E14001084
- Output area
- E00088388
- Lower layer super output area
- Bedford 017A · E01017505
- Middle layer super output area
- Bedford 017 · E02003632
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
Property
20 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 208, Bedford Road, Kempston, Bedford, MK42 8BL | 21 June 2024 | £193,000 |
| 178, Flat A, Bedford Road, Kempston, Bedford, MK42 8BL | 1 June 2023 | £330,000 |
| 204, Bedford Road, Kempston, Bedford, MK42 8BL | 25 June 2021 | £187,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 55
- Primary
- 31
- Secondary
- 9
- 202 m
Bedford Road Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 341 m
Grange Academy
Academy special converter
- 457 m
Rivertree Free School
Free schools special
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,815
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,070
- Shoplifting 327
- Anti social behaviour 318
- Criminal damage and arson 229
- Public order 220
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 33
- Postcode households
- 16
- Residents per household
- 2.1
- MK42 8 residents
- 10,763
15 female, 18 male
Age bands in MK42 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.5%
1,788 residents
1,098 residents
2,879 residents
2,793 residents
1,811 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider MK42 8 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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+
- 96.6%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 96.6%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 96.6%
- Gigabit-capable
- 96.6%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 96.6%
- 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
9
within 5 km
KING STREET SURGERY
273 BEDFORD ROAD, KEMPSTON, BEDFORD, MK42 8QD
ODS code E81038
124 m
QUEENS PARK HEALTH CENTRE
23C CARLISLE ROAD, QUEEN'S PARK, BEDFORD, MK40 4HR
ODS code E81021
1.6 km
ASHBURNHAM ROAD SURGERY
8 ASHBURNHAM ROAD, BEDFORD, MK40 1DS
ODS code E81615
2.2 km
LONDON ROAD HEALTH CENTRE
84-86 LONDON ROAD, BEDFORD, MK42 0NT
ODS code E81019
2.5 km
LINDEN ROAD SURGERY
13 LINDEN ROAD, BEDFORD, MK40 2DQ
ODS code E81060
2.9 km
THE DE PARYS GROUP
ENHANCED SERVICES CENTRE, BEDFORD HEALTH VILLAGE, 3 KIMBOLTON ROAD, BEDFORD, MK40 2NT
ODS code E81037
3.4 km
THE VALE MEDICAL PRACTICE
WOOTTON VALE HLTH LIV CTR, FIELDS ROAD, WOOTTON, BEDFORD, MK43 9JJ
ODS code Y00560
3.7 km
GOLDINGTON AVENUE SURGERY
85 GOLDINGTON AVENUE, BEDFORD, MK40 3DB
ODS code E81047
3.8 km
PUTNOE MEDICAL CENTRE PARTNERSHIP
93 QUEENS DRIVE, BEDFORD, MK41 9JE
ODS code E81029
5.0 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
- 0.1 miles
Bunyan Road
BCT · Kempston
- 0.1 miles
Saxon Centre
BCT · Kempston
- 0.1 miles
Bunyan Road
BCT · Kempston
- 0.1 miles
Saxon Centre
BCT · Kempston
- 0.2 miles
Bedford Road Lower School
BCT · Kempston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bedford 017A, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
15,627 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 3
- Low risk addresses
- 5
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
55 open schools are in scope, including 31 primary and 9 secondary schools. Bedford Road Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 202 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,815 published events cover 12 months, averaging 234.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,070 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.