Schools
6 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 1 secondary schools. Harrold Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 963 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
MK43 7BT
Harrold · Bedford · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Harrold
- Local authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire
- Postcode district
- MK43
- Postcode sector
- MK43 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- MK43 7BT
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- MK
- Postcode district
- MK43
- Postcode sector
- MK43 7
- Latitude
- 52.206000
- Longitude
- -0.623169
- British National Grid easting
- 494,182
- British National Grid northing
- 257,311
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Bedford · E06000055
- Electoral ward
- Harrold · E05014503
- Parish or community
- E04011893
- Westminster constituency
- North Bedfordshire · E14001384
- Output area
- E00088373
- Lower layer super output area
- Bedford 002D · E01017504
- Middle layer super output area
- Bedford 002 · E02003617
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
- 6
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 1
- 963 m
Harrold Primary Academy
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- 2.1 km
Carlton CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 3.8 km
Bozeat Community Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 88
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 24
- Anti social behaviour 20
- Criminal damage and arson 10
- Burglary 6
- Public order 6
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 7
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- MK43 7 residents
- 7,348
3 female, 4 male
Age bands in MK43 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.2%
1,149 residents
757 residents
1,261 residents
2,350 residents
1,854 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider MK43 7 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.
GP practices
1
within 5 km straight-line
HARROLD MEDICAL PRACTICE
PEACH'S CLOSE, HARROLD, BEDFORD, MK43 7DX
ODS code E81007
1.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
Mowhills
BCT · Harrold
- 0.5 miles
Mowhills
BCT · Harrold
- 0.5 miles
The Institute
BCT · Harrold
- 0.5 miles
The Institute
BCT · Harrold
- 0.6 miles
Harrold Priory Academy
BCT · Harrold
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bedford 002D, 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
21,258 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- 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
Recorded crime
88 published events cover 12 months, averaging 7.333 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.