Schools
6 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Pirton School is the nearest published school at 1.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SG5 3JY
Meppershall & Shillington · Central Bedfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire
- Postcode district
- SG5
- Postcode sector
- SG5 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SG5 3JY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1990
- Postcode area
- SG
- Postcode district
- SG5
- Postcode sector
- SG5 3
- Latitude
- 51.960861
- Longitude
- -0.374260
- British National Grid easting
- 511,800
- British National Grid northing
- 230,400
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Central Bedfordshire · E06000056
- Electoral ward
- Meppershall & Shillington · E05014417
- Parish or community
- E04011981
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire · E14001359
- Output area
- E00088078
- Lower layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 011F · E01017444
- Middle layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 011 · E02003609
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 SG5
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 6
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 3.1 km
Pirton School
Community school
- 3.1 km
Ramsey Manor Lower School
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- 3.2 km
Arnold Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 23
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 9
- Anti social behaviour 7
- Other theft 2
- Public order 2
- Burglary 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SG5 3 residents
- 7,089
Age bands in SG5 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.2%
1,197 residents
662 residents
1,487 residents
2,176 residents
1,575 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
1
within 5 km straight-line
DR A SULAKSHANA & PARTNERS
HEXTON ROAD, BARTON-LE-CLAY, BEDFORD, MK45 4TA
ODS code E81046
3.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Pegsdon Way
BCT · Pegsdon
- 0.2 miles
Pegsdon Way
BCT · Pegsdon
- 0.8 miles
Mill Lane
BCT · Hexton
- 0.8 miles
Mill Lane
BCT · Hexton
- 1.5 miles
Musgrave Arms
BCT · Shillington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Central Bedfordshire 011F, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
20,731 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
23 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 9 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.