Schools
15 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 3 secondary schools. Shefford Lower School is the nearest published school at 116 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SG17 5XL
Shefford · Central Bedfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Shefford
- Local authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin
- Postcode district
- SG17
- Postcode sector
- SG17 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SG17 5XL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 November 2003
- Terminated
- 1 November 2004
- Postcode area
- SG
- Postcode district
- SG17
- Postcode sector
- SG17 5
- Latitude
- 52.036467
- Longitude
- -0.342303
- British National Grid easting
- 513,804
- British National Grid northing
- 238,858
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Central Bedfordshire · E06000056
- Electoral ward
- Shefford · E05014421
- Parish or community
- E04011980
- Westminster constituency
- Hitchin · E14001289
- Output area
- E00177101
- Lower layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 011C · E01017439
- Middle layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 011 · E02003609
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
- 15
- Primary
- 12
- Secondary
- 3
- 116 m
Shefford Lower School
Community school
- 146 m
Robert Bloomfield Academy
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
Campton Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 608
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 186
- Shoplifting 122
- Anti social behaviour 73
- Vehicle crime 57
- Criminal damage and arson 44
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SG17 5 residents
- 14,767
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
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
SHEFFORD HEALTH CENTRE
ROBERT LUCAS DRIVE, SHEFFORD, SG17 5FS
ODS code E81033
1.4 km
LOWER STONDON SURGERY
109 STATION ROAD, LOWER STONDON, HENLOW, SG16 6JJ
ODS code E81061
3.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Scotgrange Meadow
BCT · Shefford
- 0.1 miles
School Lane
BCT · Shefford
- 0.1 miles
Scotgrange Meadow
BCT · Shefford
- 0.1 miles
School Lane
BCT · Shefford
- 0.3 miles
Priory Gate
BCT · Shefford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Central Bedfordshire 011C, 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
31,243 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
608 published events cover 12 months, averaging 50.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 186 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.