Schools
11 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 2 secondary schools. Biggleswade Academy is the nearest published school at 708 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SG18 8PL
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 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SG18 8PL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1998
- Postcode area
- SG
- Postcode district
- SG18
- Postcode sector
- SG18 8
- Latitude
- 52.075914
- Longitude
- -0.246051
- British National Grid easting
- 520,300
- British National Grid northing
- 243,400
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
- E00087784
- Lower layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 006A · E01017381
- 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
- 11
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 2
- 708 m
Biggleswade Academy
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
Stratton School
Academy converter
- 1.6 km
Ivel Valley School & College
Community special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 624
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 176
- Shoplifting 102
- Anti social behaviour 88
- Vehicle crime 76
- Other theft 41
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SG18 8 residents
- 13,750
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
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
SAFFRON HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
BIGGLESWADE HEALTH CENTRE, SAFFRON ROAD, BIGGLESWADE, SG18 8DJ
ODS code E81057
1.6 km
IVEL MEDICAL CENTRE
CHESTNUT AVENUE, BIGGLESWADE, SG18 0RA
ODS code E81036
1.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Courtlands Drive East
BCT · Biggleswade
- 0.1 miles
Dunton Lane
BCT · Biggleswade
- 0.1 miles
Dunton Lane
BCT · Biggleswade
- 0.1 miles
Courtlands Drive West
BCT · Biggleswade
- 0.2 miles
Normandy Lane
BCT · Biggleswade
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Central Bedfordshire 006A, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
28,360 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
624 published events cover 12 months, averaging 52 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 176 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.