Schools
6 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 1 secondary schools. Sharnbrook Academy is the nearest published school at 1.5 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
MK44 1LL
Harrold · Bedford · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Harrold
- Local authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire
- Postcode district
- MK44
- Postcode sector
- MK44 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- MK44 1LL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1990
- Postcode area
- MK
- Postcode district
- MK44
- Postcode sector
- MK44 1
- Latitude
- 52.223528
- Longitude
- -0.593083
- British National Grid easting
- 496,200
- British National Grid northing
- 259,300
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Bedford · E06000055
- Electoral ward
- Harrold · E05014503
- Parish or community
- E04011902
- Westminster constituency
- North Bedfordshire · E14001384
- Output area
- E00088377
- Lower layer super output area
- Bedford 002D · E01017504
- Middle layer super output area
- Bedford 002 · E02003617
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 MK44
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 6
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 1
- 2.5 km
Sharnbrook Academy
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- 2.8 km
Harrold Primary Academy
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- 3.5 km
Sharnbrook Primary
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 29
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Criminal damage and arson 10
- Violence and sexual offences 10
- Anti social behaviour 4
- Other theft 2
- Burglary 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- MK44 1 residents
- 5,239
Age bands in MK44 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 32%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.3%
801 residents
529 residents
905 residents
1,672 residents
1,320 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
2
within 5 km straight-line
HARROLD MEDICAL PRACTICE
PEACH'S CLOSE, HARROLD, BEDFORD, MK43 7DX
ODS code E81007
2.5 km
SHARNBROOK SURGERY
TEMPLARS WAY, SHARNBROOK, BEDFORD, MK44 1PZ
ODS code E81024
4.3 km
Nearby transport
- 1.0 miles
The Green
BCT · Odell
- 1.0 miles
The Green
BCT · Odell
- 1.2 miles
Odell Road
BCT · Harrold
- 1.2 miles
Odell Road
BCT · Harrold
- 1.4 miles
Meadway
BCT · Harrold
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bedford 002D, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,258 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
29 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Criminal damage and arson with 10 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.