Property market
The five-year median is £377,000 from 1 recorded sale in MK45 3FS. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Bedford is £329,830 in June 2026, up 4.4% year on year.
MK45 3FS
Wixams & Wilstead · Bedford · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bedford
- Ward
- Wixams & Wilstead
- Local authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire
- Postcode district
- MK45
- Postcode sector
- MK45 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- MK45 3FS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 August 2015
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- MK
- Postcode district
- MK45
- Postcode sector
- MK45 3
- Latitude
- 52.083448
- Longitude
- -0.488014
- British National Grid easting
- 503,701
- British National Grid northing
- 243,865
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Bedford · E06000055
- Electoral ward
- Wixams & Wilstead · E05014516
- Parish or community
- E04011914
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire · E14001359
- Output area
- E00183512
- Lower layer super output area
- Bedford 020B · E01017552
- Middle layer super output area
- Bedford 020 · E02003635
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
22 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 9, Angelica Grove, Houghton Conquest, Bedford, MK45 3FS | 30 January 2026 | £377,000 |
| 35, Angelica Grove, Houghton Conquest, Bedford, MK45 3FS | 8 June 2021 | £288,000 |
| 15, Angelica Grove, Houghton Conquest, Bedford, MK45 3FS | 24 May 2021 | £300,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 32
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 6
- 819 m
Willow Grove Primary School
Free schools
- 1.4 km
Wixams Academy
Free schools
- 1.5 km
Wixams Tree Primary Academy
Free schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 277
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 138
- Anti social behaviour 30
- Criminal damage and arson 22
- Burglary 17
- Public order 15
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 56
- Postcode households
- 20
- Residents per household
- 2.8
- MK45 3 residents
- 7,839
22 female, 34 male
Age bands in MK45 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.7%
1,357 residents
711 residents
1,903 residents
2,046 residents
1,767 residents
This postcode contained 0.7% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider MK45 3 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+
- 5.3%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 5.3%
- Gigabit-capable
- 5.3%
- 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
THE VALE MEDICAL PRACTICE
WOOTTON VALE HLTH LIV CTR, FIELDS ROAD, WOOTTON, BEDFORD, MK43 9JJ
ODS code Y00560
3.0 km
KING STREET SURGERY
273 BEDFORD ROAD, KEMPSTON, BEDFORD, MK42 8QD
ODS code E81038
4.0 km
MARSTON FOREST HEALTHCARE
59 BEDFORD ROAD, MARSTON MORETAINE, BEDFORD, MK43 0LA
ODS code E81043
4.6 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
Juniper Drive
BCT · Wixams
- 0.1 miles
Juniper Drive
BCT · Wixams
- 0.2 miles
Manor Road
BCT · Kempston Hardwick
- 0.2 miles
Straw Lane
BCT · Wixams
- 0.2 miles
Straw Lane
BCT · Wixams
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bedford 020B, 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
15,216 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
- 13
- Low risk addresses
- 2
- 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
Schools
32 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 6 secondary schools. Willow Grove Primary School is the nearest published school at 819 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
277 published events cover 12 months, averaging 23.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 138 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.