Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 2 secondary schools. Maulden Lower School is the nearest published school at 1.3 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
MK45 3UZ
Ampthill · Central Bedfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Ampthill
- Local authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire
- Postcode district
- MK45
- Postcode sector
- MK45 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- MK45 3UZ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 2013
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- MK
- Postcode district
- MK45
- Postcode sector
- MK45 3
- Latitude
- 52.043060
- Longitude
- -0.437204
- British National Grid easting
- 507,279
- British National Grid northing
- 239,447
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
- E04012809
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire · E14001359
- Output area
- E00087974
- Lower layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 008C · E01017419
- Middle layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 008 · E02003606
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
- 12
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 2
- 2.1 km
Maulden Lower School
Community school
- 2.1 km
St Mary's VA CofE Lower School
Voluntary aided school
- 3.4 km
Houghton Conquest Lower School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 14
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Anti social behaviour 4
- Violence and sexual offences 4
- Other crime 2
- Public order 2
- Other theft 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- MK45 3 residents
- 7,839
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
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
2
within 5 km
HOUGHTON CLOSE SURGERY
1 HOUGHTON CLOSE, AMPTHILL, BEDFORD, MK45 2TG
ODS code E81074
4.3 km
GREENSAND SURGERY (AMPTHILL)
THE HEALTH CENTRE, 57 OLIVER STREET, AMPTHILL, BEDFORD, MK45 2SB
ODS code E81002
4.3 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
- 0.2 miles
Oxley's Farm
BCT · Haynes West End
- 0.2 miles
Oxley's Farm
BCT · Haynes West End
- 0.5 miles
Limbersey Lane
BCT · Haynes West End
- 0.5 miles
Limbersey Lane
BCT · Haynes West End
- 0.8 miles
Wilstead Hill
BCT · Haynes Church End
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Central Bedfordshire 008C, 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
30,056 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
14 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 4 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.