Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 1 secondary schools. Pirton School is the nearest published school at 0.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SG5 3PP
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 3PP
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 1992
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- SG
- Postcode district
- SG5
- Postcode sector
- SG5 3
- Latitude
- 51.983842
- Longitude
- -0.345759
- British National Grid easting
- 513,700
- British National Grid northing
- 233,000
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
- 9
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.5 km
Pirton School
Community school
- 2.0 km
Shillington Lower School
Community school
- 2.6 km
Stondon Lower School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 37
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 14
- Other theft 6
- Vehicle crime 6
- Drugs 4
- Anti social behaviour 2
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
LOWER STONDON SURGERY
109 STATION ROAD, LOWER STONDON, HENLOW, SG16 6JJ
ODS code E81061
3.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.9 miles
Post Office
BCT · Shillington
- 0.9 miles
Post Office
BCT · Shillington
- 0.9 miles
Wheelwright Close
BCT · Shillington
- 0.9 miles
Wheelwright Close
BCT · Shillington
- 1.0 miles
Marquis Hill
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
37 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 14 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.