Schools
16 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 4 secondary schools. Wilstead Primary School is the nearest published school at 388 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
MK45 3ZT
Wixams & Wilstead · Bedford · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 3ZT
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1997
- Terminated
- 1 June 2000
- Postcode area
- MK
- Postcode district
- MK45
- Postcode sector
- MK45 3
- Latitude
- 52.078031
- Longitude
- -0.442813
- British National Grid easting
- 506,811
- British National Grid northing
- 243,328
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
- E04012623
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire · E14001359
- Output area
- E00088591
- Lower layer super output area
- Bedford 021F · E01017549
- Middle layer super output area
- Bedford 021 · E02007010
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
- 16
- Primary
- 12
- Secondary
- 4
- 388 m
Wilstead Primary School
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- 1.9 km
Lakeview School
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- 2.0 km
Wixams Tree Primary Academy
Free schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 185
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 88
- Anti social behaviour 35
- Public order 22
- Vehicle crime 14
- Criminal damage and arson 12
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.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Methodist Chapel
BCT · Wilstead
- 0.2 miles
Methodist Chapel
BCT · Wilstead
- 0.3 miles
Northwood Lane
BCT · Wilstead
- 0.3 miles
Dines Close
BCT · Wilstead
- 0.3 miles
Northwood Lane
BCT · Wilstead
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bedford 021F, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
25,430 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
185 published events cover 12 months, averaging 15.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 88 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.