MK42 postcode district: Kempston and around
MK42 is a postcode district in England, with 1,288 postcodes in use in 6 sectors. It has postcodes in Kempston, Bedford, Shortstown and 1 more place. It is split between 2 councils: Bedford (1,278 postcodes) and Central Bedfordshire (10).
- Postcodes in use
- 1,288
- Sectors
- 6
- Councils
- 2 councils
- Places
- 4 places
Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.
Every postcode in MK42, by gigabit broadband
- No home or business can get gigabit: 66
- Some can get gigabit: 113
- Every home and business can get gigabit: 1,051
- Ofcom gives no figure: 58
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together
Of the 1,288 postcodes in MK42 that ONS places, 66 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 113 have some that can, 1,051 can all get it and 58 have no Ofcom figure.
Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 52.1161, longitude -0.4711. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre.
Postcodes without gigabit
66 postcodes here have no gigabit. These are the 12 first in postcode order.
Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together
What broadband can you get in MK42?
Ofcom reports on 1,230 of the 1,288 postcodes in MK42. At 1,051 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.
Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.
Is MK42 at risk of flooding?
191 of the 1,288 postcodes in MK42 have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 274 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.
High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.
Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.
Source: Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026.
What do homes sell for in MK42?
Homes in MK42 sold for a typical £317,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 483 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £321,000 from 850 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £437,500 108 sales
- Semi-detached £325,000 159 sales
- Terraced £280,000 145 sales
- Flat or maisonette £190,000 71 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.
Postcodes in MK42
Pick a sector, then a postcode. A sector is the district plus the next digit.
Places in MK42
Towns and villages with postcodes in MK42, and how many each has here.
Who covers MK42
How many of the district's postcodes in use fall under each council, constituency and police force area.
Councils
- Bedford1,278
- Central Bedfordshire10
Constituencies
- Bedford920
- Mid Bedfordshire191
- North Bedfordshire177
Police force areas
- Bedfordshire1,288
Next to MK42
"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after MK42 in the MK area.
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Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- Environment Agency flood risk
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0.
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