Schools
42 open schools are in scope, including 23 primary and 8 secondary schools. Ridgeway School is the nearest published school at 416 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
MK43 9AT
Wootton & Kempston Rural · Bedford · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire
- Postcode district
- MK43
- Postcode sector
- MK43 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- MK43 9AT
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 January 2016
- Postcode area
- MK
- Postcode district
- MK43
- Postcode sector
- MK43 9
- Latitude
- 52.107439
- Longitude
- -0.515766
- British National Grid easting
- 501,745
- British National Grid northing
- 246,494
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Bedford · E06000055
- Electoral ward
- Wootton & Kempston Rural · E05014517
- Parish or community
- E04011895
- Westminster constituency
- North Bedfordshire · E14001384
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 42
- Primary
- 23
- Secondary
- 8
- 416 m
Ridgeway School
Community special school
- 534 m
Kempston Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 934 m
Kempston Rural Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,136
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 449
- Shoplifting 126
- Anti social behaviour 118
- Public order 110
- Criminal damage and arson 83
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- MK43 9 residents
- 11,173
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
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
6
within 5 km straight-line
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
1.9 km
QUEENS PARK HEALTH CENTRE
23C CARLISLE ROAD, QUEEN'S PARK, BEDFORD, MK40 4HR
ODS code E81021
3.3 km
ASHBURNHAM ROAD SURGERY
8 ASHBURNHAM ROAD, BEDFORD, MK40 1DS
ODS code E81615
4.1 km
LONDON ROAD HEALTH CENTRE
84-86 LONDON ROAD, BEDFORD, MK42 0NT
ODS code E81019
4.4 km
LINDEN ROAD SURGERY
13 LINDEN ROAD, BEDFORD, MK40 2DQ
ODS code E81060
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
The Bower
BCT · Kempston
- 0.1 miles
The Bower
BCT · Kempston
- 0.2 miles
Bird Grove
BCT · Kempston
- 0.2 miles
Bird Grove
BCT · Kempston
- 0.3 miles
Hill Rise
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,136 published events cover 12 months, averaging 94.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 449 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.