Property market
The five-year median is £900,000 from 1 recorded sale in MK43 7TG. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Bedford is £329,830 in June 2026, up 4.4% year on year.
MK43 7TG
Clapham & Oakley · Bedford · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bedford
- 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 7TG
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1995
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- MK
- Postcode district
- MK43
- Postcode sector
- MK43 7
- Latitude
- 52.167673
- Longitude
- -0.520857
- British National Grid easting
- 501,260
- British National Grid northing
- 253,186
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
- E00088496
- 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
Property
44 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 3, Parsonage Close, Oakley, Bedford, MK43 7TG | 13 February 2025 | £900,000 |
| 3a, Parsonage Close, Oakley, Bedford, MK43 7TG | 20 December 2017 | £480,000 |
| 3b, Parsonage Close, Oakley, Bedford, MK43 7TG | 14 November 2017 | £637,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 23
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 3
- 147 m
Lincroft Academy
Academy converter
- 264 m
Oakley Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 2.1 km
Bromham CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 238
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 96
- Criminal damage and arson 70
- Anti social behaviour 20
- Other theft 11
- Public order 11
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 56
- Postcode households
- 22
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- MK43 7 residents
- 7,348
31 female, 25 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 0.8% 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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
4
within 5 km straight-line
PRIORY MEDICAL CENTRE
48 THE GLEBE, CLAPHAM, BEDFORD, MK41 6GA
ODS code E81049
1.0 km
LINDEN ROAD SURGERY
13 LINDEN ROAD, BEDFORD, MK40 2DQ
ODS code E81060
3.9 km
QUEENS PARK HEALTH CENTRE
23C CARLISLE ROAD, QUEEN'S PARK, BEDFORD, MK40 4HR
ODS code E81021
4.3 km
ASHBURNHAM ROAD SURGERY
8 ASHBURNHAM ROAD, BEDFORD, MK40 1DS
ODS code E81615
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Parsonage Close
BCT · Oakley
- 0.1 miles
Station Road
BCT · Oakley
- 0.1 miles
Station Road
BCT · Oakley
- 0.1 miles
Parsonage Close
BCT · Oakley
- 0.1 miles
Lincroft Academy
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.
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
- 4
- 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
Schools
23 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 3 secondary schools. Lincroft Academy is the nearest published school at 147 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
238 published events cover 12 months, averaging 19.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 96 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.