Shortstown · Bedford · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeWithin 3.1 miles of this postcode
Cotton End Forest School
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Shortstown Primary School
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Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
1,357 residents
711 residents
1,903 residents
2,046 residents
1,767 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.
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within 5 km straight-line
UNIT 16, STEPHENSON COURT, FRASER ROAD, BEDFORD, MK44 3WJ
ODS code Y06153
3.8 km
84-86 LONDON ROAD, BEDFORD, MK42 0NT
ODS code E81019
4.9 km
Bunkers Drive
BCT · Cotton End
The Bell
BCT · Cotton End
The Bell
BCT · Cotton End
High Road
BCT · Cotton End
High Road
BCT · Cotton End
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
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.
15 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 2 secondary schools. Cotton End Forest School is the nearest published school at 485 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
36 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 22 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.