Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Sharnbrook Primary is the nearest published school at 1.6 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
MK44 1QA
Riseley · Bedford · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- MK44 1QA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 2020
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- MK
- Postcode district
- MK44
- Postcode sector
- MK44 1
- Latitude
- 52.220029
- Longitude
- -0.506573
- British National Grid easting
- 502,117
- British National Grid northing
- 259,029
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Bedford · E06000055
- Electoral ward
- Riseley · E05014512
- Parish or community
- E04011878
- Westminster constituency
- North Bedfordshire · E14001384
- Output area
- E00088250
- Lower layer super output area
- Bedford 003A · E01017478
- Middle layer super output area
- Bedford 003 · E02003618
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
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Black Barn, Thurleigh Road, Bletsoe, Bedford, MK44 1QA | 16 June 2021 | £1,410,000 |
| Black Barn, Thurleigh Road, Bletsoe, Bedford, MK44 1QA | 13 March 2017 | £210,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 2.5 km
Sharnbrook Primary
Academy converter
- 2.9 km
Pinchmill Primary School
Foundation school
- 3.0 km
Milton Ernest CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2
- Drugs 1
- Burglary 1
- Other theft 1
- Public order 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.
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
1.8 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
Bletsoe Church
BCT · Bletsoe
- 0.4 miles
Bletsoe Church
BCT · Bletsoe
- 0.5 miles
Bletsoe Church
BCT · Bletsoe
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bedford 003A, 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
17,353 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 8 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.
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
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- 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
Recorded crime
7 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.