Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 2 secondary schools. Pinchmill Primary School is the nearest published school at 633 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
MK43 7HG
Sharnbrook · Bedford · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 7HG
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 February 1990
- Terminated
- 1 December 1991
- Postcode area
- MK
- Postcode district
- MK43
- Postcode sector
- MK43 7
- Latitude
- 52.207772
- Longitude
- -0.554065
- British National Grid easting
- 498,900
- British National Grid northing
- 257,600
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 8
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 2
- 633 m
Pinchmill Primary School
Foundation school
- 1.7 km
Sharnbrook Academy
Academy converter
- 2.2 km
Sharnbrook Primary
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 19
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 8
- 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 straight-line
SHARNBROOK SURGERY
TEMPLARS WAY, SHARNBROOK, BEDFORD, MK44 1PZ
ODS code E81024
2.7 km
HARROLD MEDICAL PRACTICE
PEACH'S CLOSE, HARROLD, BEDFORD, MK43 7DX
ODS code E81007
3.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
The Sun
BCT · Felmersham
- 0.1 miles
The Sun
BCT · Felmersham
- 0.2 miles
The Church
BCT · Felmersham
- 0.2 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
19 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 8 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.