Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Sharnbrook Primary is the nearest published school at 0.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
MK44 1NN
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 1NN
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- MK
- Postcode district
- MK44
- Postcode sector
- MK44 1
- Latitude
- 52.220898
- Longitude
- -0.521330
- British National Grid easting
- 501,107
- British National Grid northing
- 259,105
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
- E00088565
- Lower layer super output area
- Bedford 001C · E01017544
- 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
- 1.5 km
Sharnbrook Primary
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- 2.0 km
Pinchmill Primary School
Foundation school
- 2.5 km
Sharnbrook Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 55
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 23
- Public order 8
- Anti social behaviour 7
- Criminal damage and arson 7
- Other theft 4
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
1
within 5 km
SHARNBROOK SURGERY
TEMPLARS WAY, SHARNBROOK, BEDFORD, MK44 1PZ
ODS code E81024
930 m
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
Mill Road
BCT · Sharnbrook
- 0.4 miles
Bourne End Lane
BCT · Bletsoe
- 0.4 miles
Mill Road
BCT · Sharnbrook
- 0.4 miles
Bourne End Lane
BCT · Bletsoe
- 0.6 miles
The Fordham Arms
BCT · Sharnbrook
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bedford 001C, 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
26,403 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
55 published events cover 12 months, averaging 4.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 23 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.