Schools
63 open schools are in scope, including 44 primary and 7 secondary schools. Long Meadow School is the nearest published school at 610 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
MK5 6LB
Watling · Milton Keynes · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Watling
- Local authority
- Milton Keynes
- Constituency
- Milton Keynes Central
- Postcode district
- MK5
- Postcode sector
- MK5 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- MK5 6LB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 August 1992
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- MK
- Postcode district
- MK5
- Postcode sector
- MK5 6
- Latitude
- 52.015692
- Longitude
- -0.794016
- British National Grid easting
- 482,859
- British National Grid northing
- 235,937
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Milton Keynes · E06000042
- Electoral ward
- Watling · E05016606
- Parish or community
- E04012190
- Westminster constituency
- Milton Keynes Central · E14001369
- Output area
- E00183650
- Lower layer super output area
- Milton Keynes 037E · E01034468
- Middle layer super output area
- Milton Keynes 037 · E02007016
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 MK5
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 63
- Primary
- 44
- Secondary
- 7
- 610 m
Long Meadow School
Community school
- 882 m
Oxley Park Academy
Academy converter
- 974 m
Shenley Brook End School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,045
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 929
- Anti social behaviour 208
- Shoplifting 173
- Public order 142
- Other theft 127
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- MK5 6 residents
- 5,832
Age bands in MK5 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 31.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.1%
1,057 residents
725 residents
1,979 residents
1,648 residents
886 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
10
within 5 km
WESTCROFT HEALTH CENTRE
1 SAVILL LANE, WESTCROFT, MILTON KEYNES, MK4 4EN
ODS code K82633
1.0 km
WHADDON HEALTHCARE
25 WITHAM COURT, BLETCHLEY, MILTON KEYNES, MK3 7QU
ODS code K82026
2.6 km
WHITEHOUSE HEALTH CENTRE
DORSET WAY, WHITEHOUSE, MILTON KEYNES, MK8 1EQ
ODS code Y06810
2.6 km
CENTRAL MILTON KEYNES MEDICAL CENTRE
C.M.K MEDICAL CENTRE, 68 BRADWELL COMMON BOULEVARD, BRADWELL COMMON, MILTON KEYNES, MK13 8RN
ODS code K82065
3.2 km
PARKSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
WHALLEY DRIVE, BLETCHLEY, MILTON KEYNES, MK3 6EN
ODS code K82015
3.8 km
ASHFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
1 PERRYDOWN, BEANHILL, MILTON KEYNES, MK6 4NE
ODS code K82054
3.9 km
FISHERMEAD MEDICAL CENTRE
FISHERMEAD BOULEVARD, FISHERMEAD, MILTON KEYNES, MK6 2LR
ODS code K82064
3.9 km
THE GROVE SURGERY
FARTHING CLOSE, NETHERFIELD, MILTON KEYNES, MK6 4NG
ODS code K82610
4.1 km
WOLVERTON HEALTH CENTRE
GLOUCESTER ROAD, WOLVERTON, MILTON KEYNES, MK12 5DF
ODS code K82003
4.5 km
BEDFORD STREET SURGERY
4 BEDFORD STREET, BLETCHLEY, MILTON KEYNES, MK2 2TX
ODS code K82039
4.9 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
Shenley Wood village
BCT · Shenley Wood
- 0.1 miles
Shenley Wood village
BCT · Shenley Wood
- 0.2 miles
Wildacre Road
BCT · Shenley Brook End
- 0.2 miles
Wildacre Road
BCT · Shenley Brook End
- 0.2 miles
Foxcovert Road
BCT · Shenley Brook End
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Milton Keynes 037E, 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
22,296 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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.
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
- 2
- 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
2,045 published events cover 12 months, averaging 170.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 929 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.