Schools
14 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 4 secondary schools. Flitwick Lower School is the nearest published school at 450 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
MK45 5NY
Flitwick · Central Bedfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Flitwick
- Local authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire
- Postcode district
- MK45
- Postcode sector
- MK45 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- MK45 5NY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 March 1988
- Terminated
- 1 June 1996
- Postcode area
- MK
- Postcode district
- MK45
- Postcode sector
- MK45 5
- Latitude
- 51.996694
- Longitude
- -0.499691
- British National Grid easting
- 503,100
- British National Grid northing
- 234,200
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Central Bedfordshire · E06000056
- Electoral ward
- Flitwick · E05014409
- Parish or community
- E04011950
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire · E14001359
- Output area
- E00087902
- Lower layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 016B · E01017404
- Middle layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 016 · E02003614
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
- 14
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 4
- 450 m
Flitwick Lower School
Community school
- 831 m
Woodland Middle School Academy
Academy converter
- 875 m
Templefield Lower School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 513
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 182
- Anti social behaviour 79
- Vehicle crime 52
- Public order 44
- Criminal damage and arson 38
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- MK45 5 residents
- 5,007
Age bands in MK45 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.7%
821 residents
525 residents
1,074 residents
1,610 residents
1,114 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
FLITWICK SURGERY
HIGHLANDS, FLITWICK, BEDFORD, MK45 1DW
ODS code E81015
1.1 km
HOUGHTON CLOSE SURGERY
1 HOUGHTON CLOSE, AMPTHILL, BEDFORD, MK45 2TG
ODS code E81074
3.3 km
GREENSAND SURGERY (AMPTHILL)
THE HEALTH CENTRE, 57 OLIVER STREET, AMPTHILL, BEDFORD, MK45 2SB
ODS code E81002
3.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Vicarage Hill
BCT · Flitwick
- 0.2 miles
Larkway
BCT · Flitwick
- 0.2 miles
Larkway
BCT · Flitwick
- 0.2 miles
Vicarage Hill
BCT · Flitwick
- 0.2 miles
Eagle Drive
BCT · Flitwick
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Central Bedfordshire 016B, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
33,401 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
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
513 published events cover 12 months, averaging 42.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 182 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.