Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 3 secondary schools. Arnold Academy is the nearest published school at 120 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
MK45 4YL
Barton-le-Clay & Silsoe · 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 4YL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 1992
- Terminated
- 1 December 1994
- Postcode area
- MK
- Postcode district
- MK45
- Postcode sector
- MK45 4
- Latitude
- 51.962393
- Longitude
- -0.420782
- British National Grid easting
- 508,600
- British National Grid northing
- 230,500
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Central Bedfordshire · E06000056
- Electoral ward
- Barton-le-Clay & Silsoe · E05014397
- Parish or community
- E04011929
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire · E14001359
- Output area
- E00088638
- Lower layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 018B · E01017559
- Middle layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 018 · E02003636
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
- 9
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 3
- 120 m
Arnold Academy
Academy converter
- 424 m
Ramsey Manor Lower School
Academy converter
- 959 m
Orchard School & Nursery
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 171
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 54
- Anti social behaviour 49
- Criminal damage and arson 17
- Public order 12
- Vehicle crime 11
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
2
within 5 km straight-line
DR A SULAKSHANA & PARTNERS
HEXTON ROAD, BARTON-LE-CLAY, BEDFORD, MK45 4TA
ODS code E81046
323 m
BARTON HILLS MEDICAL GROUP
THE SURGERY, WHITEHORSE VALE, BARTON HILLS, LUTON, LU3 4AD
ODS code E81632
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Rectory Farm
BCT · Barton-le-Clay
- 0.1 miles
Rectory Farm
BCT · Barton-le-Clay
- 0.3 miles
Frank Hamel Court
BCT · Barton-le-Clay
- 0.3 miles
Frank Hamel Court
BCT · Barton-le-Clay
- 0.3 miles
The Memorial
BCT · Barton-le-Clay
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Central Bedfordshire 018B, 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
27,036 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
171 published events cover 12 months, averaging 14.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 54 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.