Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 0 secondary schools. Haynes Lower School is the nearest published school at 1.5 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SG18 9LU
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 9LU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SG
- Postcode district
- SG18
- Postcode sector
- SG18 9
- Latitude
- 52.084908
- Longitude
- -0.371525
- British National Grid easting
- 511,679
- British National Grid northing
- 244,200
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
- E04011974
- Westminster constituency
- North Bedfordshire · E14001384
- Output area
- E00087929
- 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
Explore SG18
Property
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Tunnel Cottages, 147, Bedford Road, Old Warden, Biggleswade, SG18 9LU | 16 April 2018 | £326,000 |
| Tunnel Cottages, 146, Bedford Road, Old Warden, Biggleswade, SG18 9LU | 15 September 2016 | £585,000 |
| Tunnel Cottages, 147, Bedford Road, Old Warden, Biggleswade, SG18 9LU | 26 July 2013 | £218,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 0
- 2.5 km
Haynes Lower School
Community school
- 3.5 km
Cotton End Forest School
Community school
- 3.9 km
Southill Lower School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Vehicle crime 2
- Violence and sexual offences 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 10
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- SG18 9 residents
- 7,504
5 female, 5 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 0.1% 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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.
Nearby transport
- 1.3 miles
Haynes Turn
BCT · Haynes
- 1.3 miles
Haynes Turn
BCT · Haynes
- 1.3 miles
Haynes Turn
BCT · Haynes
- 1.4 miles
Deadman's Cross
BCT · Deadmans Cross
- 1.4 miles
Deadman's Cross
BCT · Deadmans Cross
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
- 1
- Medium risk addresses
- 1
- 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
3 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.25 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.