Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 1 secondary schools. Gravenhurst Academy is the nearest published school at 844 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
MK45 4AX
Meppershall & Shillington · Central Bedfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire
- Postcode district
- MK45
- Postcode sector
- MK45 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- MK45 4AX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1999
- Postcode area
- MK
- Postcode district
- MK45
- Postcode sector
- MK45 4
- Latitude
- 52.017205
- Longitude
- -0.385569
- British National Grid easting
- 510,884
- British National Grid northing
- 236,649
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Central Bedfordshire · E06000056
- Electoral ward
- Meppershall & Shillington · E05014417
- Parish or community
- E04011951
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire · E14001359
- Output area
- E00088056
- Lower layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 011E · E01017441
- Middle layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 011 · E02003609
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
- 10
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 1
- 844 m
Gravenhurst Academy
Academy converter
- 1.9 km
Esland Bedford School
Other independent special school
- 2.4 km
St Mary's VA CofE Lower School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 43
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 24
- Other crime 5
- Anti social behaviour 4
- Burglary 3
- Criminal damage and arson 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- MK45 4 residents
- 11,003
Age bands in MK45 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.5%
1,892 residents
1,051 residents
2,321 residents
3,281 residents
2,202 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
1
within 5 km straight-line
SHEFFORD HEALTH CENTRE
ROBERT LUCAS DRIVE, SHEFFORD, SG17 5FS
ODS code E81033
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
The Glebe
BCT · Upper Gravenhurst
- 0.4 miles
The Glebe
BCT · Upper Gravenhurst
- 0.5 miles
Parkside
BCT · Upper Gravenhurst
- 0.5 miles
Parkside
BCT · Upper Gravenhurst
- 0.5 miles
St Giles' Church
BCT · Upper Gravenhurst
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Central Bedfordshire 011E, 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
26,452 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
43 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 24 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.