Schools
13 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 4 secondary schools. The Firs Lower School is the nearest published school at 212 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
MK45 9AA
Ampthill · Central Bedfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Ampthill
- Local authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire
- Postcode district
- MK45
- Postcode sector
- MK45 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- MK45 9AA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 May 2005
- Terminated
- 1 March 2006
- Postcode area
- MK
- Postcode district
- MK45
- Postcode sector
- MK45 9
- Latitude
- 52.027381
- Longitude
- -0.496100
- British National Grid easting
- 503,276
- British National Grid northing
- 237,618
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Central Bedfordshire · E06000056
- Electoral ward
- Ampthill · E05014394
- Parish or community
- E04012803
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire · E14001359
- Output area
- E00087738
- Lower layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 012E · E01017375
- Middle layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 012 · E02003610
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
- 13
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 4
- 212 m
The Firs Lower School
Academy converter
- 278 m
Alameda Middle School
Academy converter
- 281 m
Russell Lower School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 405
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 175
- Anti social behaviour 82
- Criminal damage and arson 31
- Other theft 27
- Public order 24
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- Postcode sector residents
- Not available
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 not available.
GP practices
3
within 5 km
GREENSAND SURGERY (AMPTHILL)
THE HEALTH CENTRE, 57 OLIVER STREET, AMPTHILL, BEDFORD, MK45 2SB
ODS code E81002
235 m
HOUGHTON CLOSE SURGERY
1 HOUGHTON CLOSE, AMPTHILL, BEDFORD, MK45 2TG
ODS code E81074
285 m
FLITWICK SURGERY
HIGHLANDS, FLITWICK, BEDFORD, MK45 1DW
ODS code E81015
2.5 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Alameda Walk
BCT · Ampthill
- 0.1 miles
Arthur Street
BCT · Ampthill
- 0.1 miles
Library
BCT · Ampthill
- 0.1 miles
Arthur Street
BCT · Ampthill
- 0.1 miles
Alameda Walk
BCT · Ampthill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Central Bedfordshire 012E, 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
26,926 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
405 published events cover 12 months, averaging 33.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 175 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.