Schools
30 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 6 secondary schools. Wootton Primary School is the nearest published school at 727 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
MK43 9TQ
Wootton & Kempston Rural · Bedford · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire
- Postcode district
- MK43
- Postcode sector
- MK43 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- MK43 9TQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 September 2025
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- MK
- Postcode district
- MK43
- Postcode sector
- MK43 9
- Latitude
- 52.103119
- Longitude
- -0.530555
- British National Grid easting
- 500,742
- British National Grid northing
- 245,993
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
- E04011921
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire · E14001359
- Output area
- E00088600
- Lower layer super output area
- Bedford 020C · E01017553
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 30
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 6
- 727 m
Wootton Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
Wootton Academy
Academy converter
- 1.5 km
Ridgeway School
Community special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 393
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 185
- Anti social behaviour 69
- Criminal damage and arson 29
- Other theft 26
- Public order 26
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
4
within 5 km straight-line
THE VALE MEDICAL PRACTICE
WOOTTON VALE HLTH LIV CTR, FIELDS ROAD, WOOTTON, BEDFORD, MK43 9JJ
ODS code Y00560
1.1 km
KING STREET SURGERY
273 BEDFORD ROAD, KEMPSTON, BEDFORD, MK42 8QD
ODS code E81038
3.0 km
QUEENS PARK HEALTH CENTRE
23C CARLISLE ROAD, QUEEN'S PARK, BEDFORD, MK40 4HR
ODS code E81021
4.2 km
MARSTON FOREST HEALTHCARE
59 BEDFORD ROAD, MARSTON MORETAINE, BEDFORD, MK43 0LA
ODS code E81043
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Keeley Corner
BCT · Wootton
- 0.1 miles
Keeley Corner
BCT · Wootton
- 0.2 miles
Elmsdale Road
BCT · Wootton
- 0.2 miles
Elmsdale Road
BCT · Wootton
- 0.3 miles
Wootton Road
BCT · Gibraltar
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bedford 020C, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
28,754 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
393 published events cover 12 months, averaging 32.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 185 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.