Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 3 secondary schools. Holywell School is the nearest published school at 1.2 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
MK43 0YU
Cranfield & Marston Moretaine · Central Bedfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire
- Postcode district
- MK43
- Postcode sector
- MK43 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- MK43 0YU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 February 1990
- Terminated
- 1 June 1998
- Postcode area
- MK
- Postcode district
- MK43
- Postcode sector
- MK43 0
- Latitude
- 52.061223
- Longitude
- -0.579980
- British National Grid easting
- 497,448
- British National Grid northing
- 241,266
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Central Bedfordshire · E06000056
- Electoral ward
- Cranfield & Marston Moretaine · E05014402
- Parish or community
- E04011967
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire · E14001359
- Output area
- E00177176
- Lower layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 009H · E01033821
- Middle layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 009 · E02003607
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 MK43
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 9
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 3
- 2.0 km
Holywell School
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- 2.0 km
Cranfield Church of England Academy
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- 2.2 km
Marston Moreteyne VC School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 78
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 24
- Drugs 21
- Anti social behaviour 12
- Criminal damage and arson 12
- Vehicle crime 5
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- MK43 0 residents
- 15,407
Age bands in MK43 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.5%
2,904 residents
1,918 residents
4,404 residents
3,747 residents
2,207 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
1
within 5 km straight-line
MARSTON FOREST HEALTHCARE
59 BEDFORD ROAD, MARSTON MORETAINE, BEDFORD, MK43 0LA
ODS code E81043
2.2 km
Nearby transport
- 1.0 miles
Howes Drive
BCT · Marston Moretaine
- 1.0 miles
Moreteyne Park
BCT · Marston Moretaine
- 1.1 miles
Vale Court
BCT · Cranfield
- 1.1 miles
Vale Court
BCT · Cranfield
- 1.1 miles
Hillcrest
BCT · Cranfield
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Central Bedfordshire 009H, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
24,465 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
78 published events cover 12 months, averaging 6.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 24 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.