Schools
13 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 4 secondary schools. Templefield Lower School is the nearest published school at 652 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
MK45 1UZ
Flitwick · Central Bedfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 1UZ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 March 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- MK
- Postcode district
- MK45
- Postcode sector
- MK45 1
- Latitude
- 52.008995
- Longitude
- -0.506842
- British National Grid easting
- 502,581
- British National Grid northing
- 235,558
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
- E00177204
- Lower layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 016D · E01017406
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 13
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 4
- 652 m
Templefield Lower School
Community school
- 660 m
Woodland Middle School Academy
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
Flitwick Lower School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 634
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 224
- Anti social behaviour 110
- Vehicle crime 55
- Criminal damage and arson 49
- Other theft 44
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.
GP practices
3
within 5 km
FLITWICK SURGERY
HIGHLANDS, FLITWICK, BEDFORD, MK45 1DW
ODS code E81015
1.1 km
HOUGHTON CLOSE SURGERY
1 HOUGHTON CLOSE, AMPTHILL, BEDFORD, MK45 2TG
ODS code E81074
2.1 km
GREENSAND SURGERY (AMPTHILL)
THE HEALTH CENTRE, 57 OLIVER STREET, AMPTHILL, BEDFORD, MK45 2SB
ODS code E81002
2.1 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
- 0.1 miles
Leisure Centre
BCT · Flitwick
- 0.1 miles
Leisure Centre
BCT · Flitwick
- 0.2 miles
Churchill Drive
BCT · Flitwick
- 0.2 miles
Churchill Drive
BCT · Flitwick
- 0.2 miles
Bluebell Close
BCT · Flitwick
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Central Bedfordshire 016D, 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
30,771 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
634 published events cover 12 months, averaging 52.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 224 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.