Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 3 secondary schools. Southill Lower School is the nearest published school at 254 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SG18 9LH
Northill · Central Bedfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Biggleswade
- Ward
- Northill
- Local authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire
- Postcode district
- SG18
- Postcode sector
- SG18 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SG18 9LH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SG
- Postcode district
- SG18
- Postcode sector
- SG18 9
- Latitude
- 52.065784
- Longitude
- -0.327957
- British National Grid easting
- 514,713
- British National Grid northing
- 242,141
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Central Bedfordshire · E06000056
- Electoral ward
- Northill · E05014418
- Parish or community
- E04011984
- Westminster constituency
- North Bedfordshire · E14001384
- Output area
- E00087932
- Lower layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 004A · E01017412
- Middle layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 004 · E02003602
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
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Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| The Vicarage, Southill, Biggleswade, SG18 9LH | 12 April 2007 | £1,500,000 |
| The Vicarage, Southill, Biggleswade, SG18 9LH | 1 February 1995 | £315,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 12
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 3
- 254 m
Southill Lower School
Community school
- 3.3 km
Samuel Whitbread Academy
Academy converter
- 3.5 km
Robert Bloomfield Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 6
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Vehicle crime 2
- Violence and sexual offences 2
- Burglary 1
- Public order 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 3
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 1.5
- SG18 9 residents
- 7,504
2 female, 1 male
Age bands in SG18 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.3%
1,145 residents
774 residents
1,606 residents
2,309 residents
1,776 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SG18 9 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 straight-line
SHEFFORD HEALTH CENTRE
ROBERT LUCAS DRIVE, SHEFFORD, SG17 5FS
ODS code E81033
3.5 km
SAFFRON HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
BIGGLESWADE HEALTH CENTRE, SAFFRON ROAD, BIGGLESWADE, SG18 8DJ
ODS code E81057
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
White Horse
BCT · Southill
- 0.5 miles
Stanford Road
BCT · Southill
- 0.5 miles
Stanford Road
BCT · Southill
- 0.6 miles
Memorial
BCT · Southill
- 0.6 miles
Memorial
BCT · Southill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Central Bedfordshire 004A, 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
10,952 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- 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
6 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Vehicle crime with 2 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.