Property market
The five-year median is £585,000 from 1 recorded sale in MK43 8BS. 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 8BS
Bromham · Bedford · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- MK43 8BS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- MK
- Postcode district
- MK43
- Postcode sector
- MK43 8
- Latitude
- 52.158893
- Longitude
- -0.586641
- British National Grid easting
- 496,780
- British National Grid northing
- 252,120
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Bedford · E06000055
- Electoral ward
- Bromham · E05014493
- Parish or community
- E04011917
- Westminster constituency
- North Bedfordshire · E14001384
- Output area
- E00088575
- Lower layer super output area
- Bedford 002E · E01017546
- 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
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| The Lodge, Bedford Road, Turvey, Bedford, MK43 8BS | 24 February 2023 | £585,000 |
| The Lodge, Bedford Road, Turvey, Bedford, MK43 8BS | 18 August 2014 | £405,000 |
| The Lodge, Bedford Road, Turvey, Bedford, MK43 8BS | 6 January 2012 | £367,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 1
- 2.7 km
Turvey Primary School
Foundation school
- 3.8 km
Carlton CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 3.9 km
Bromham CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Criminal damage and arson 2
- Other theft 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 16
- Postcode households
- 6
- Residents per household
- 2.7
- MK43 8 residents
- 7,191
8 female, 8 male
Age bands in MK43 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.4%
1,084 residents
732 residents
1,295 residents
2,211 residents
1,815 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider MK43 8 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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.
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
The Railway Swan
BCT · Turvey
- 0.6 miles
The Railway Swan
BCT · Turvey
- 1.3 miles
West End
BCT · Stevington
- 1.3 miles
West End
BCT · Stevington
- 1.4 miles
Turvey Abbey
BCT · Turvey
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bedford 002E, 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
20,097 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
- 1
- 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
Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 1 secondary schools. Turvey Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
3 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Criminal damage and arson with 2 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.