Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 2 secondary schools. Shefford Lower School is the nearest published school at 1.5 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SG17 5QG
Northill · Central Bedfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Northill
- Local authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire
- Postcode district
- SG17
- Postcode sector
- SG17 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SG17 5QG
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SG
- Postcode district
- SG17
- Postcode sector
- SG17 5
- Latitude
- 52.054124
- Longitude
- -0.360071
- British National Grid easting
- 512,541
- British National Grid northing
- 240,794
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Central Bedfordshire · E06000056
- Electoral ward
- Northill · E05014418
- Parish or community
- E04011984
- Westminster constituency
- North Bedfordshire · E14001384
- Output area
- E00087932
- Lower layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 004A · E01017412
- Middle layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 004 · E02003602
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 SG17
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 9
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 2
- 2.4 km
Shefford Lower School
Community school
- 2.5 km
Robert Bloomfield Academy
Academy converter
- 2.7 km
Campton Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 11
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Drugs 3
- Vehicle crime 2
- Violence and sexual offences 2
- Other crime 1
- Other theft 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 3
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- SG17 5 residents
- 14,767
1 female, 2 male
Age bands in SG17 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.4%
2,797 residents
1,538 residents
3,898 residents
3,865 residents
2,549 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SG17 5 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+
- 0%
- 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
- 100%
- 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
SHEFFORD HEALTH CENTRE
ROBERT LUCAS DRIVE, SHEFFORD, SG17 5FS
ODS code E81033
3.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Chicksands Turn
BCT · Chicksands
- 0.1 miles
Chicksands Turn
BCT · Chicksands
- 0.7 miles
Rowney Warren
BCT · Deadmans Cross
- 0.8 miles
Rowney Warren
BCT · Deadmans Cross
- 0.9 miles
Standalone Warren
BCT · Haynes
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Central Bedfordshire 004A, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
10,952 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
- 0
- 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
11 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Drugs with 3 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.