Schools
14 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 2 secondary schools. Lawnside Academy is the nearest published school at 498 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SG18 1BS
Biggleswade West · Central Bedfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Biggleswade West
- Local authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire
- Postcode district
- SG18
- Postcode sector
- SG18 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SG18 1BS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 April 2021
- Terminated
- 1 November 2021
- Postcode area
- SG
- Postcode district
- SG18
- Postcode sector
- SG18 1
- Latitude
- 52.085931
- Longitude
- -0.262429
- British National Grid easting
- 519,151
- British National Grid northing
- 244,487
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Central Bedfordshire · E06000056
- Electoral ward
- Biggleswade West · E05014399
- Parish or community
- E04011931
- Westminster constituency
- North Bedfordshire · E14001384
- Output area
- E00087804
- Lower layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 005C · E01017385
- Middle layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 005 · E02003603
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
- 14
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 2
- 498 m
Lawnside Academy
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- 530 m
St Andrew's CofE VC Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 844 m
Stratton School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,274
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 445
- Anti social behaviour 192
- Shoplifting 146
- Vehicle crime 97
- Criminal damage and arson 92
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
SAFFRON HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
BIGGLESWADE HEALTH CENTRE, SAFFRON ROAD, BIGGLESWADE, SG18 8DJ
ODS code E81057
246 m
IVEL MEDICAL CENTRE
CHESTNUT AVENUE, BIGGLESWADE, SG18 0RA
ODS code E81036
357 m
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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Biggleswade Rail Station
RSE · Biggleswade
- 0.1 miles
Interchange
BCS · Biggleswade
- 0.1 miles
Interchange
BCS · Biggleswade
- 0.1 miles
Biggleswade Rail Station
RLY · Biggleswade
- 0.1 miles
Biggleswade Rail Station
RSE · Biggleswade
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Central Bedfordshire 005C, 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
12,591 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
1,274 published events cover 12 months, averaging 106.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 445 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.