Schools
13 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 2 secondary schools. Campton Academy is the nearest published school at 650 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SG17 9SN
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 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SG17 9SN
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 March 2010
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SG
- Postcode district
- SG17
- Postcode sector
- SG17 9
- Latitude
- 52.035546
- Longitude
- -0.360649
- British National Grid easting
- 512,548
- British National Grid northing
- 238,727
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
- E04011935
- Westminster constituency
- Hitchin · E14001289
- Output area
- E00171386
- Lower layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 011E · E01017441
- 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
- 13
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 2
- 650 m
Campton Academy
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- 1.2 km
Shefford Lower School
Community school
- 1.3 km
Robert Bloomfield Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 163
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 57
- Vehicle crime 28
- Anti social behaviour 25
- Other theft 15
- Public order 8
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
2
within 5 km
SHEFFORD HEALTH CENTRE
ROBERT LUCAS DRIVE, SHEFFORD, SG17 5FS
ODS code E81033
2.7 km
DR CARRAGHER AND NEAL AND AKHTAR
109 STATION ROAD, LOWER STONDON, HENLOW, SG16 6JJ
ODS code E81061
4.7 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
- 0.0 miles
Council Offices
BCT · Chicksands
- 0.1 miles
Chicksands Junction
BCT · Campton
- 0.1 miles
Chicksands Junction
BCT · Campton
- 0.4 miles
Campton Lower School
BCT · Campton
- 0.4 miles
Campton Lower School
BCT · Campton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Central Bedfordshire 011E, 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
26,452 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
163 published events cover 12 months, averaging 13.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 57 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.