Schools
57 open schools are in scope, including 32 primary and 10 secondary schools. St John's School is the nearest published school at 402 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
MK42 8PA
Kempston Central & East · Bedford · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- MK42 8PA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- MK
- Postcode district
- MK42
- Postcode sector
- MK42 8
- Latitude
- 52.123097
- Longitude
- -0.484980
- British National Grid easting
- 503,817
- British National Grid northing
- 248,279
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
- E00088395
- Lower layer super output area
- Bedford 017B · E01017506
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 57
- Primary
- 32
- Secondary
- 10
- 402 m
St John's School
Academy special converter
- 575 m
Camestone School
Community school
- 586 m
Grange Academy
Academy special converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,052
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,633
- Anti social behaviour 458
- Criminal damage and arson 302
- Shoplifting 298
- Public order 288
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- MK42 8 residents
- 10,763
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
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
10
within 5 km
KING STREET SURGERY
273 BEDFORD ROAD, KEMPSTON, BEDFORD, MK42 8QD
ODS code E81038
868 m
QUEENS PARK HEALTH CENTRE
23C CARLISLE ROAD, QUEEN'S PARK, BEDFORD, MK40 4HR
ODS code E81021
1.2 km
ASHBURNHAM ROAD SURGERY
8 ASHBURNHAM ROAD, BEDFORD, MK40 1DS
ODS code E81615
1.5 km
LONDON ROAD HEALTH CENTRE
84-86 LONDON ROAD, BEDFORD, MK42 0NT
ODS code E81019
1.8 km
LINDEN ROAD SURGERY
13 LINDEN ROAD, BEDFORD, MK40 2DQ
ODS code E81060
2.3 km
THE DE PARYS GROUP
ENHANCED SERVICES CENTRE, BEDFORD HEALTH VILLAGE, 3 KIMBOLTON ROAD, BEDFORD, MK40 2NT
ODS code E81037
2.7 km
GOLDINGTON AVENUE SURGERY
85 GOLDINGTON AVENUE, BEDFORD, MK40 3DB
ODS code E81047
3.0 km
PUTNOE MEDICAL CENTRE PARTNERSHIP
93 QUEENS DRIVE, BEDFORD, MK41 9JE
ODS code E81029
4.2 km
THE VALE MEDICAL PRACTICE
WOOTTON VALE HLTH LIV CTR, FIELDS ROAD, WOOTTON, BEDFORD, MK43 9JJ
ODS code Y00560
4.4 km
BEDOC HEALTHCARE
UNIT 16, STEPHENSON COURT, FRASER ROAD, BEDFORD, MK44 3WJ
ODS code Y06153
4.6 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
- 0.0 miles
Thornton Street
BCT · Kempston
- 0.1 miles
Savannah Close
BCT · Kempston
- 0.1 miles
The Keep
BCT · Kempston
- 0.1 miles
Addison Centre
BCT · Kempston
- 0.1 miles
Savannah Close
BCT · Kempston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bedford 017B, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
9,794 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
4,052 published events cover 12 months, averaging 337.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,633 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.