Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 2 secondary schools. Lawnside Academy is the nearest published school at 163 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SG18 0NG
Biggleswade East · Central Bedfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Biggleswade East
- Local authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire
- Postcode district
- SG18
- Postcode sector
- SG18 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SG18 0NG
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1992
- Terminated
- 1 December 1992
- Postcode area
- SG
- Postcode district
- SG18
- Postcode sector
- SG18 0
- Latitude
- 52.088625
- Longitude
- -0.254310
- British National Grid easting
- 519,700
- British National Grid northing
- 244,800
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Central Bedfordshire · E06000056
- Electoral ward
- Biggleswade East · E05014398
- Parish or community
- E04011931
- Westminster constituency
- North Bedfordshire · E14001384
- Output area
- E00087827
- Lower layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 006J · E01033813
- Middle layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 006 · E02003604
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 SG18
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 12
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 2
- 163 m
Lawnside Academy
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- 335 m
Ivel Valley School & College
Community special school
- 359 m
Stratton School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,350
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 470
- Anti social behaviour 203
- Shoplifting 148
- Vehicle crime 104
- Criminal damage and arson 97
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SG18 0 residents
- 9,491
Age bands in SG18 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.6%
1,723 residents
926 residents
2,667 residents
2,194 residents
1,492 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
IVEL MEDICAL CENTRE
CHESTNUT AVENUE, BIGGLESWADE, SG18 0RA
ODS code E81036
358 m
SAFFRON HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
BIGGLESWADE HEALTH CENTRE, SAFFRON ROAD, BIGGLESWADE, SG18 8DJ
ODS code E81057
859 m
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Hitchmead Road
BCT · Biggleswade
- 0.0 miles
Hitchmead Road
BCT · Biggleswade
- 0.1 miles
Hitchmead Road
BCT · Biggleswade
- 0.1 miles
Spring Close
BCT · Biggleswade
- 0.2 miles
Spring Close
BCT · Biggleswade
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Central Bedfordshire 006J, 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
11,035 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,350 published events cover 12 months, averaging 112.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 470 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.