Schools
23 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 3 secondary schools. Oakley Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 271 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
MK43 7RA
Clapham & Oakley · Bedford · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Clapham & Oakley
- Local authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire
- Postcode district
- MK43
- Postcode sector
- MK43 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- MK43 7RA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1995
- Terminated
- 1 December 1995
- Postcode area
- MK
- Postcode district
- MK43
- Postcode sector
- MK43 7
- Latitude
- 52.172303
- Longitude
- -0.521581
- British National Grid easting
- 501,200
- British National Grid northing
- 253,700
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Bedford · E06000055
- Electoral ward
- Clapham & Oakley · E05014496
- Parish or community
- E04011901
- Westminster constituency
- North Bedfordshire · E14001384
- Output area
- E00088492
- Lower layer super output area
- Bedford 003E · E01017528
- Middle layer super output area
- Bedford 003 · E02003618
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
- 23
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 3
- 271 m
Oakley Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 376 m
Lincroft Academy
Academy converter
- 2.4 km
Milton Ernest CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 206
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 84
- Criminal damage and arson 65
- Anti social behaviour 17
- Other theft 9
- Public order 9
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
3
within 5 km straight-line
PRIORY MEDICAL CENTRE
48 THE GLEBE, CLAPHAM, BEDFORD, MK41 6GA
ODS code E81049
1.2 km
LINDEN ROAD SURGERY
13 LINDEN ROAD, BEDFORD, MK40 2DQ
ODS code E81060
4.3 km
QUEENS PARK HEALTH CENTRE
23C CARLISLE ROAD, QUEEN'S PARK, BEDFORD, MK40 4HR
ODS code E81021
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Oakley Garage
BCT · Oakley
- 0.1 miles
Oakley Garage
BCT · Oakley
- 0.2 miles
Queens Close
BCT · Oakley
- 0.2 miles
The Memorial
BCT · Oakley
- 0.2 miles
The Memorial
BCT · Oakley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bedford 003E, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
28,288 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
206 published events cover 12 months, averaging 17.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 84 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.