Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 2 secondary schools. Pinchmill Primary School is the nearest published school at 437 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
MK43 7ET
Sharnbrook · Bedford · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bedford
- Ward
- Sharnbrook
- Local authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire
- Postcode district
- MK43
- Postcode sector
- MK43 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- MK43 7ET
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- MK
- Postcode district
- MK43
- Postcode sector
- MK43 7
- Latitude
- 52.207820
- Longitude
- -0.550669
- British National Grid easting
- 499,132
- British National Grid northing
- 257,610
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Bedford · E06000055
- Electoral ward
- Sharnbrook · E05014514
- Parish or community
- E04011890
- Westminster constituency
- North Bedfordshire · E14001384
- Output area
- E00088188
- Lower layer super output area
- Bedford 002A · E01017464
- 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
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Bank Top, Grange Road, Felmersham, Bedford, MK43 7ET | 4 October 2002 | £320,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 8
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 2
- 437 m
Pinchmill Primary School
Foundation school
- 1.8 km
Sharnbrook Academy
Academy converter
- 2.1 km
Sharnbrook Primary
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 17
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 6
- Vehicle crime 3
- Anti social behaviour 3
- Other theft 2
- Burglary 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- MK43 7 residents
- 7,348
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
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
2
within 5 km
SHARNBROOK SURGERY
TEMPLARS WAY, SHARNBROOK, BEDFORD, MK44 1PZ
ODS code E81024
2.6 km
HARROLD MEDICAL PRACTICE
PEACH'S CLOSE, HARROLD, BEDFORD, MK43 7DX
ODS code E81007
3.8 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
The Sun
BCT · Felmersham
- 0.0 miles
The Sun
BCT · Felmersham
- 0.1 miles
The Church
BCT · Felmersham
- 0.1 miles
The Church
BCT · Felmersham
- 0.9 miles
Upper School
BCT · Sharnbrook
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bedford 002A, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,663 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
17 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 6 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.