Property market
The five-year median is £640,000 from 1 recorded sale in MK44 3SH. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Bedford is £329,830 in June 2026, up 4.4% year on year.
MK44 3SH
Shortstown · Bedford · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bedford
- Ward
- Shortstown
- Local authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire
- Postcode district
- MK44
- Postcode sector
- MK44 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- MK44 3SH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- MK
- Postcode district
- MK44
- Postcode sector
- MK44 3
- Latitude
- 52.119074
- Longitude
- -0.408286
- British National Grid easting
- 509,077
- British National Grid northing
- 247,944
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Bedford · E06000055
- Electoral ward
- Shortstown · E05014515
- Parish or community
- E04012993
- Westminster constituency
- North Bedfordshire · E14001384
- Output area
- E00088286
- Lower layer super output area
- Bedford 021D · E01034429
- Middle layer super output area
- Bedford 021 · E02007010
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
11 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 300, Cople Road, Cardington, Bedford, MK44 3SH | 22 May 2023 | £640,000 |
| Meadow View, Cople Road, Cardington, Bedford, MK44 3SH | 25 October 2019 | £630,000 |
| Home House, Cople Road, Cardington, Bedford, MK44 3SH | 24 May 2019 | £870,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 27
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 5
- 1.4 km
Sheerhatch Primary School
Community school
- 1.8 km
Shortstown Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.7 km
KWS School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 268
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 115
- Anti social behaviour 44
- Vehicle crime 32
- Other theft 22
- Burglary 14
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 65
- Postcode households
- 26
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- MK44 3 residents
- 7,517
36 female, 29 male
Age bands in MK44 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.1%
1,215 residents
632 residents
1,606 residents
2,320 residents
1,829 residents
This postcode contained 0.9% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider MK44 3 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+
- 100%
- 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
5
within 5 km
BEDOC HEALTHCARE
UNIT 16, STEPHENSON COURT, FRASER ROAD, BEDFORD, MK44 3WJ
ODS code Y06153
1.3 km
LONDON ROAD HEALTH CENTRE
84-86 LONDON ROAD, BEDFORD, MK42 0NT
ODS code E81019
3.6 km
PUTNOE MEDICAL CENTRE PARTNERSHIP
93 QUEENS DRIVE, BEDFORD, MK41 9JE
ODS code E81029
3.8 km
GOLDINGTON AVENUE SURGERY
85 GOLDINGTON AVENUE, BEDFORD, MK40 3DB
ODS code E81047
4.2 km
THE DE PARYS GROUP
ENHANCED SERVICES CENTRE, BEDFORD HEALTH VILLAGE, 3 KIMBOLTON ROAD, BEDFORD, MK40 2NT
ODS code E81037
4.3 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
- 0.0 miles
Cottage Farm Nursery
BCT · Cardington
- 0.1 miles
Cottage Farm Nursery
BCT · Cardington
- 0.2 miles
Chapel Lane
BCT · Cardington
- 0.2 miles
Chapel Lane
BCT · Cardington
- 0.2 miles
The Kings Arms
BCT · Cardington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bedford 021D, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
16,036 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 4
- 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
Schools
27 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 5 secondary schools. Sheerhatch Primary School is the nearest published school at 0.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
268 published events cover 12 months, averaging 22.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 115 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.