Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 2 secondary schools. Biggleswade Academy is the nearest published school at 297 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SG18 8HX
Biggleswade West · Central Bedfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Biggleswade
- Ward
- Biggleswade West
- Local authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire
- Postcode district
- SG18
- Postcode sector
- SG18 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SG18 8HX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 1994
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SG
- Postcode district
- SG18
- Postcode sector
- SG18 8
- Latitude
- 52.080933
- Longitude
- -0.257661
- British National Grid easting
- 519,491
- British National Grid northing
- 243,939
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
- E00087786
- Lower layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 005A · E01017383
- 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
Property
11 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 12, Hereford Grove, Biggleswade, SG18 8HX | 26 June 2020 | £368,000 |
| 8, Hereford Grove, Biggleswade, SG18 8HX | 9 July 2007 | £247,500 |
| 1, Hereford Grove, Biggleswade, SG18 8HX | 2 March 2006 | £218,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 12
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 2
- 297 m
Biggleswade Academy
Academy converter
- 817 m
Stratton School
Academy converter
- 863 m
Lawnside Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,254
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 399
- Anti social behaviour 192
- Shoplifting 178
- Vehicle crime 104
- Public order 86
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 35
- Postcode households
- 11
- Residents per household
- 3.2
- SG18 8 residents
- 13,750
16 female, 19 male
Age bands in SG18 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 32.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 15.2%
2,726 residents
1,282 residents
4,621 residents
3,507 residents
2,176 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SG18 8 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
2
within 5 km
SAFFRON HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
BIGGLESWADE HEALTH CENTRE, SAFFRON ROAD, BIGGLESWADE, SG18 8DJ
ODS code E81057
590 m
IVEL MEDICAL CENTRE
CHESTNUT AVENUE, BIGGLESWADE, SG18 0RA
ODS code E81036
862 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Oak Crescent
BCT · Biggleswade
- 0.1 miles
Oak Crescent
BCT · Biggleswade
- 0.2 miles
Mead End
BCT · Biggleswade
- 0.2 miles
Mead End Shops
BCT · Biggleswade
- 0.2 miles
Biggleswade Academy
BCT · Biggleswade
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Central Bedfordshire 005A, 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
24,189 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
- 2
- Medium risk addresses
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 5
- 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
1,254 published events cover 12 months, averaging 104.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 399 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.