Schools
14 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 4 secondary schools. Flitwick Lower School is the nearest published school at 826 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
MK45 1PT
Flitwick · Central Bedfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeLocation overview
Drag to pan. Use + or - to zoom. Open larger map
- Post town
- Bedford
- Ward
- Flitwick
- Local authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire
- Postcode district
- MK45
- Postcode sector
- MK45 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- MK45 1PT
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 1983
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- MK
- Postcode district
- MK45
- Postcode sector
- MK45 1
- Latitude
- 51.996817
- Longitude
- -0.508004
- British National Grid easting
- 502,529
- British National Grid northing
- 234,202
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Central Bedfordshire · E06000056
- Electoral ward
- Flitwick · E05014409
- Parish or community
- E04011950
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire · E14001359
- Output area
- E00087895
- Lower layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 016B · E01017404
- Middle layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 016 · E02003614
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 MK45
Property
6 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 5, Windsor Close, Flitwick, Bedford, MK45 1PT | 12 January 2018 | £470,000 |
| 5, Windsor Close, Flitwick, Bedford, MK45 1PT | 29 April 2010 | £365,000 |
| 6, Windsor Close, Flitwick, Bedford, MK45 1PT | 23 May 2008 | £410,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 14
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 4
- 826 m
Flitwick Lower School
Community school
- 924 m
Woodland Middle School Academy
Academy converter
- 994 m
Templefield Lower School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 381
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 122
- Anti social behaviour 50
- Vehicle crime 39
- Public order 37
- Other theft 31
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 21
- Postcode households
- 8
- Residents per household
- 2.6
- MK45 1 residents
- 13,306
10 female, 11 male
Age bands in MK45 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.4%
2,252 residents
1,351 residents
3,647 residents
3,773 residents
2,322 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider MK45 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
3
within 5 km
FLITWICK SURGERY
HIGHLANDS, FLITWICK, BEDFORD, MK45 1DW
ODS code E81015
1.4 km
HOUGHTON CLOSE SURGERY
1 HOUGHTON CLOSE, AMPTHILL, BEDFORD, MK45 2TG
ODS code E81074
3.4 km
GREENSAND SURGERY (AMPTHILL)
THE HEALTH CENTRE, 57 OLIVER STREET, AMPTHILL, BEDFORD, MK45 2SB
ODS code E81002
3.4 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
Woburn Close
BCT · Flitwick
- 0.1 miles
Woburn Close
BCT · Flitwick
- 0.2 miles
Blenheim Link
BCT · Flitwick
- 0.2 miles
Larkway
BCT · Flitwick
- 0.2 miles
Conway Drive
BCT · Flitwick
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Central Bedfordshire 016B, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
33,401 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
381 published events cover 12 months, averaging 31.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 122 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.