Kempston West · Bedford · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeWithin 3.1 miles of this postcode
Kempston Rural Primary School
Community school
Kempston Academy
Academy sponsor led
Ridgeway School
Community special school
Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
0 female, 2 male
1,084 residents
732 residents
1,295 residents
2,211 residents
1,815 residents
This postcode contained 0% 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.
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
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.
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within 5 km
273 BEDFORD ROAD, KEMPSTON, BEDFORD, MK42 8QD
ODS code E81038
1.5 km
23C CARLISLE ROAD, QUEEN'S PARK, BEDFORD, MK40 4HR
ODS code E81021
2.5 km
WOOTTON VALE HLTH LIV CTR, FIELDS ROAD, WOOTTON, BEDFORD, MK43 9JJ
ODS code Y00560
2.6 km
8 ASHBURNHAM ROAD, BEDFORD, MK40 1DS
ODS code E81615
3.4 km
13 LINDEN ROAD, BEDFORD, MK40 2DQ
ODS code E81060
4.0 km
84-86 LONDON ROAD, BEDFORD, MK42 0NT
ODS code E81019
4.1 km
ENHANCED SERVICES CENTRE, BEDFORD HEALTH VILLAGE, 3 KIMBOLTON ROAD, BEDFORD, MK40 2NT
ODS code E81037
4.8 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.
Bury Cottages
BCT · Kempston Church End
Bury Cottages
BCT · Kempston Church End
Hebbes Close
BCT · Kempston
Hebbes Close
BCT · Kempston
Burr Close
BCT · Kempston Church End
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bedford 018F, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
25,506 of 33,755
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.
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.
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.
44 open schools are in scope, including 24 primary and 7 secondary schools. Kempston Rural Primary School is the nearest published school at 40 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
1,450 published events cover 12 months, averaging 120.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 565 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.