Schools
14 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 4 secondary schools. Kingsmoor Lower School is the nearest published school at 730 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
MK45 1UE
Flitwick · Central Bedfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 1UE
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1996
- Terminated
- 1 November 2003
- Postcode area
- MK
- Postcode district
- MK45
- Postcode sector
- MK45 1
- Latitude
- 52.010093
- Longitude
- -0.485051
- British National Grid easting
- 504,074
- British National Grid northing
- 235,711
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
- E00087878
- Lower layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 015B · E01017400
- Middle layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 015 · E02003613
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
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 8, Lyall Court, Maulden Road Industrial Estate, Bedford, MK45 1UE | 3 July 1998 | £95,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 14
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 4
- 730 m
Kingsmoor Lower School
Community school
- 1.2 km
Templefield Lower School
Community school
- 1.3 km
Woodland Middle School Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 622
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 243
- Anti social behaviour 112
- Vehicle crime 53
- Criminal damage and arson 44
- Other theft 40
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- MK45 1 residents
- 13,306
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
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
3
within 5 km straight-line
FLITWICK SURGERY
HIGHLANDS, FLITWICK, BEDFORD, MK45 1DW
ODS code E81015
761 m
HOUGHTON CLOSE SURGERY
1 HOUGHTON CLOSE, AMPTHILL, BEDFORD, MK45 2TG
ODS code E81074
1.8 km
GREENSAND SURGERY (AMPTHILL)
THE HEALTH CENTRE, 57 OLIVER STREET, AMPTHILL, BEDFORD, MK45 2SB
ODS code E81002
1.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
St Pauls Close
BCT · Flitwick
- 0.3 miles
St Pauls Close
BCT · Flitwick
- 0.3 miles
Ellenshaw Court
BCT · Flitwick
- 0.3 miles
Hatfield Road
BCT · Flitwick
- 0.3 miles
Hatfield Road
BCT · Flitwick
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Central Bedfordshire 015B, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
6,101 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
622 published events cover 12 months, averaging 51.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 243 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.