Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 1 secondary schools. Orchard School & Nursery is the nearest published school at 773 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
MK45 4RB
Meppershall & Shillington · Central Bedfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bedford
- Local authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire
- Postcode district
- MK45
- Postcode sector
- MK45 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- MK45 4RB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- MK
- Postcode district
- MK45
- Postcode sector
- MK45 4
- Latitude
- 51.976523
- Longitude
- -0.413122
- British National Grid easting
- 509,092
- British National Grid northing
- 232,083
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
- E04011981
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire · E14001359
- Output area
- E00088078
- Lower layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 011F · E01017444
- 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
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Orchard School Nursery, Higham Gobion Road, Barton-Le-Clay, Bedford, MK45 4RB | 18 April 2013 | £567,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 8
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 1
- 773 m
Orchard School & Nursery
Other independent school
- 1.2 km
Ramsey Manor Lower School
Academy converter
- 1.5 km
Arnold Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 137
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 45
- Anti social behaviour 37
- Criminal damage and arson 13
- Public order 9
- Other theft 8
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 9
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- MK45 4 residents
- 11,003
5 female, 4 male
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
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider MK45 4 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+
- 66.7%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 66.7%
- 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
1
within 5 km straight-line
DR A SULAKSHANA & PARTNERS
HEXTON ROAD, BARTON-LE-CLAY, BEDFORD, MK45 4TA
ODS code E81046
1.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Orchard School
BCT · Barton-le-Clay
- 0.2 miles
Orchard School
BCT · Barton-le-Clay
- 0.5 miles
Windsor Parade Shops
BCT · Barton-le-Clay
- 0.5 miles
Windsor Parade Shops
BCT · Barton-le-Clay
- 0.6 miles
Hanover Place
BCT · Barton-le-Clay
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Central Bedfordshire 011F, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
20,731 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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.
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
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- 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
Recorded crime
137 published events cover 12 months, averaging 11.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 45 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.