Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Sharnbrook Primary is the nearest published school at 1.1 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
MK44 1NJ
Sharnbrook · Bedford · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Sharnbrook
- Local authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire
- Postcode district
- MK44
- Postcode sector
- MK44 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- MK44 1NJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- MK
- Postcode district
- MK44
- Postcode sector
- MK44 1
- Latitude
- 52.220742
- Longitude
- -0.517485
- British National Grid easting
- 501,370
- British National Grid northing
- 259,093
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Bedford · E06000055
- Electoral ward
- Sharnbrook · E05014514
- Parish or community
- E04011910
- Westminster constituency
- North Bedfordshire · E14001384
- Output area
- E00088568
- Lower layer super output area
- Bedford 001D · E01017545
- Middle layer super output area
- Bedford 001 · E02003616
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
- 5
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.8 km
Sharnbrook Primary
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- 2.3 km
Pinchmill Primary School
Foundation school
- 2.7 km
Sharnbrook Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 44
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 21
- Public order 6
- Criminal damage and arson 5
- Other theft 4
- Anti social behaviour 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 3
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 1.5
- MK44 1 residents
- 5,239
1 female, 2 male
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
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider MK44 1 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
1
within 5 km
SHARNBROOK SURGERY
TEMPLARS WAY, SHARNBROOK, BEDFORD, MK44 1PZ
ODS code E81024
1.1 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
Bourne End Lane
BCT · Bletsoe
- 0.3 miles
Bourne End Lane
BCT · Bletsoe
- 0.4 miles
Mill Road
BCT · Sharnbrook
- 0.6 miles
Mill Road
BCT · Sharnbrook
- 0.7 miles
Bletsoe Turn
BCT · Bletsoe
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bedford 001D, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,764 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
44 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 21 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.