Property market
The five-year median is £387,500 from 3 recorded sales in MK43 9SW. 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 9SW
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 9SW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 October 2019
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- MK
- Postcode district
- MK43
- Postcode sector
- MK43 9
- Latitude
- 52.072162
- Longitude
- -0.504081
- British National Grid easting
- 502,626
- British National Grid northing
- 242,587
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
- E00183511
- Lower layer super output area
- Bedford 020B · E01017552
- Middle layer super output area
- Bedford 020 · E02003635
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
18 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 22, Cotswold Drive, Stewartby, Bedford, MK43 9SW | 23 August 2024 | £580,000 |
| 12, Cotswold Drive, Stewartby, Bedford, MK43 9SW | 18 July 2024 | £370,000 |
| 34, Cotswold Drive, Stewartby, Bedford, MK43 9SW | 30 May 2023 | £387,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 19
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 6
- 441 m
Broadmead Lower School
Community school
- 664 m
Marston Vale Middle School
Academy converter
- 1.5 km
Kimberley 16 - 19 Stem College
Free schools 16 to 19
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 168
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 49
- Shoplifting 31
- Anti social behaviour 24
- Vehicle crime 17
- Criminal damage and arson 14
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 60
- Postcode households
- 19
- Residents per household
- 3.2
- MK43 9 residents
- 11,173
34 female, 26 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 0.5% 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+
- 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
2
within 5 km
THE VALE MEDICAL PRACTICE
WOOTTON VALE HLTH LIV CTR, FIELDS ROAD, WOOTTON, BEDFORD, MK43 9JJ
ODS code Y00560
2.9 km
MARSTON FOREST HEALTHCARE
59 BEDFORD ROAD, MARSTON MORETAINE, BEDFORD, MK43 0LA
ODS code E81043
3.1 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
- 0.3 miles
Kiln Drive
BCT · Stewartby
- 0.3 miles
Montgomery Close
BCT · Stewartby
- 0.4 miles
Marston Vale Middle School
BCT · Stewartby
- 0.4 miles
Stewartby Stores
BCT · Stewartby
- 0.5 miles
Stewartby Stores
BCT · Stewartby
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bedford 020B, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
15,216 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
- 7
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 3
- 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
19 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 6 secondary schools. Broadmead Lower School is the nearest published school at 441 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
168 published events cover 12 months, averaging 14 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 49 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.