Schools
14 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 3 secondary schools. Russell Lower School is the nearest published school at 466 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
MK45 2SR
Ampthill · Central Bedfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bedford
- Ward
- Ampthill
- Local authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire
- Postcode district
- MK45
- Postcode sector
- MK45 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- MK45 2SR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- MK
- Postcode district
- MK45
- Postcode sector
- MK45 2
- Latitude
- 52.025792
- Longitude
- -0.485746
- British National Grid easting
- 503,990
- British National Grid northing
- 237,456
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Central Bedfordshire · E06000056
- Electoral ward
- Ampthill · E05014394
- Parish or community
- E04012803
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire · E14001359
- Output area
- E00087735
- Lower layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 012B · E01017372
- Middle layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 012 · E02003610
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
15 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 22, The Leys, Ampthill, Bedford, MK45 2SR | 28 November 2017 | £180,000 |
| 11, The Leys, Ampthill, Bedford, MK45 2SR | 21 January 2015 | £123,000 |
| 22, The Leys, Ampthill, Bedford, MK45 2SR | 24 October 2014 | £125,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 14
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 3
- 466 m
Russell Lower School
Community school
- 918 m
The Firs Lower School
Academy converter
- 1.0 km
Alameda Middle School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 439
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 204
- Anti social behaviour 82
- Criminal damage and arson 30
- Other theft 24
- Public order 23
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 39
- Postcode households
- 22
- Residents per household
- 1.8
- MK45 2 residents
- 12,287
25 female, 14 male
Age bands in MK45 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.2%
2,164 residents
1,330 residents
2,774 residents
3,655 residents
2,365 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider MK45 2 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
HOUGHTON CLOSE SURGERY
1 HOUGHTON CLOSE, AMPTHILL, BEDFORD, MK45 2TG
ODS code E81074
476 m
GREENSAND SURGERY (AMPTHILL)
THE HEALTH CENTRE, 57 OLIVER STREET, AMPTHILL, BEDFORD, MK45 2SB
ODS code E81002
517 m
FLITWICK SURGERY
HIGHLANDS, FLITWICK, BEDFORD, MK45 1DW
ODS code E81015
2.3 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
Warren Road
BCT · Ampthill
- 0.0 miles
Warren Road
BCT · Ampthill
- 0.1 miles
Willow Way
BCT · Ampthill
- 0.1 miles
Willow Way
BCT · Ampthill
- 0.1 miles
The Coppins
BCT · Ampthill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Central Bedfordshire 012B, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
28,021 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 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.
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
439 published events cover 12 months, averaging 36.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 204 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.