Schools
42 open schools are in scope, including 23 primary and 8 secondary schools. Ridgeway School is the nearest published school at 890 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
MK43 9AB
Wixams & Wilstead · Bedford · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bedford
- Ward
- Wixams & Wilstead
- Local authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire
- Postcode district
- MK43
- Postcode sector
- MK43 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- MK43 9AB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- MK
- Postcode district
- MK43
- Postcode sector
- MK43 9
- Latitude
- 52.101569
- Longitude
- -0.505916
- British National Grid easting
- 502,433
- British National Grid northing
- 245,855
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Bedford · E06000055
- Electoral ward
- Wixams & Wilstead · E05014516
- Parish or community
- E04011914
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire · E14001359
- Output area
- E00183427
- Lower layer super output area
- Bedford 018H · E01034424
- Middle layer super output area
- Bedford 018 · E02003633
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
6 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Marsh Leys Cottages, 1, Woburn Road, Kempston, Bedford, MK43 9AB | 16 March 2015 | £185,250 |
| Marsh Leys Cottages, 2, Woburn Road, Kempston, Bedford, MK43 9AB | 18 January 2013 | £170,000 |
| Marsh Leys Cottages, 1, Woburn Road, Kempston, Bedford, MK43 9AB | 2 November 2010 | £184,995 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 42
- Primary
- 23
- Secondary
- 8
- 890 m
Ridgeway School
Community special school
- 958 m
Kempston Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.2 km
Balliol Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,163
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 424
- Shoplifting 168
- Anti social behaviour 122
- Public order 111
- Criminal damage and arson 78
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 9
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- MK43 9 residents
- 11,173
4 female, 5 male
Age bands in MK43 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 22.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 31.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 22.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.1%
2,516 residents
1,075 residents
3,427 residents
2,446 residents
1,552 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider MK43 9 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+
- 75%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 75%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 75%
- Gigabit-capable
- 75%
- 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
5
within 5 km
THE VALE MEDICAL PRACTICE
WOOTTON VALE HLTH LIV CTR, FIELDS ROAD, WOOTTON, BEDFORD, MK43 9JJ
ODS code Y00560
1.7 km
KING STREET SURGERY
273 BEDFORD ROAD, KEMPSTON, BEDFORD, MK42 8QD
ODS code E81038
2.0 km
QUEENS PARK HEALTH CENTRE
23C CARLISLE ROAD, QUEEN'S PARK, BEDFORD, MK40 4HR
ODS code E81021
3.6 km
LONDON ROAD HEALTH CENTRE
84-86 LONDON ROAD, BEDFORD, MK42 0NT
ODS code E81019
4.2 km
ASHBURNHAM ROAD SURGERY
8 ASHBURNHAM ROAD, BEDFORD, MK40 1DS
ODS code E81615
4.3 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.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Marsh Leys
BCT · Kempston
- 0.3 miles
Fletcher Road
BCT · Kempston
- 0.3 miles
Fletcher Road
BCT · Kempston
- 0.6 miles
The Bower
BCT · Kempston
- 0.6 miles
The Bower
BCT · Kempston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bedford 018H, 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
24,696 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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
- 1
- 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
Recorded crime
1,163 published events cover 12 months, averaging 96.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 424 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.