Cranfield

Cranfield is covered by postcode district MK43. It is in the Central Bedfordshire council area, England.

Typical price £375,000 Homes sold in Cranfield, last 12 months. ▲ 2.7% on the year before Gigabit broadband 107 of 147 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Not on the at-risk list No postcode here has a home or business in an area at risk from rivers or the sea Schools 2 1 primary school and 1 secondary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Cranfield, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Cranfield, by flood risk Of the 149 postcodes in Cranfield that ONS places, 149 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Cranfield. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. MK43 0AA: not on the flood risk listMK43 0AB: not on the flood risk listMK43 0AJ: not on the flood risk listMK43 0AL: not on the flood risk listMK43 0AN: not on the flood risk listMK43 0AP: not on the flood risk listMK43 0AW: not on the flood risk listMK43 0AY: not on the flood risk listMK43 0AZ: not on the flood risk listMK43 0BD: not on the flood risk listMK43 0BF: not on the flood risk listMK43 0BG: not on the flood risk listMK43 0BL: not on the flood risk listMK43 0BN: not on the flood risk listMK43 0BP: not on the flood risk listMK43 0BQ: not on the flood risk listMK43 0BS: not on the flood risk listMK43 0BT: not on the flood risk listMK43 0BU: not on the flood risk listMK43 0BW: not on the flood risk listMK43 0BY: not on the flood risk listMK43 0BZ: not on the flood risk listMK43 0DA: not on the flood risk listMK43 0DB: not on the flood risk listMK43 0DE: not on the flood risk listMK43 0DF: not on the flood risk listMK43 0DG: not on the flood risk listMK43 0DH: not on the flood risk listMK43 0DJ: not on the flood risk listMK43 0DL: not on the flood risk listMK43 0DN: not on the flood risk listMK43 0DP: not on the flood risk listMK43 0DR: not on the flood risk listMK43 0DS: not on the flood risk listMK43 0DT: not on the flood risk listMK43 0DU: not on the flood risk listMK43 0DW: not on the flood risk listMK43 0DX: not on the flood risk listMK43 0DY: not on the flood risk listMK43 0DZ: not on the flood risk listMK43 0EA: not on the flood risk listMK43 0EB: not on the flood risk listMK43 0EE: not on the flood risk listMK43 0EF: not on the flood risk listMK43 0EH: not on the flood risk listMK43 0EJ: not on the flood risk listMK43 0EL: not on the flood risk listMK43 0EN: not on the flood risk listMK43 0EP: not on the flood risk listMK43 0EQ: not on the flood risk listMK43 0ER: not on the flood risk listMK43 0ET: not on the flood risk listMK43 0EU: not on the flood risk listMK43 0EW: not on the flood risk listMK43 0EX: not on the flood risk listMK43 0EY: not on the flood risk listMK43 0EZ: not on the flood risk listMK43 0FA: not on the flood risk listMK43 0FP: not on the flood risk listMK43 0FQ: not on the flood risk listMK43 0FR: not on the flood risk listMK43 0FS: not on the flood risk listMK43 0FT: not on the flood risk listMK43 0FU: not on the flood risk listMK43 0FW: not on the flood risk listMK43 0FX: not on the flood risk listMK43 0FY: not on the flood risk listMK43 0FZ: not on the flood risk listMK43 0GA: not on the flood risk listMK43 0GB: not on the flood risk listMK43 0GE: not on the flood risk listMK43 0GF: not on the flood risk listMK43 0GG: not on the flood risk listMK43 0GH: not on the flood risk listMK43 0GJ: not on the flood risk listMK43 0GP: not on the flood risk listMK43 0GQ: not on the flood risk listMK43 0GR: not on the flood risk listMK43 0GS: not on the flood risk listMK43 0GZ: not on the flood risk listMK43 0HA: not on the flood risk listMK43 0HD: not on the flood risk listMK43 0HE: not on the flood risk listMK43 0HF: not on the flood risk listMK43 0HG: not on the flood risk listMK43 0HH: not on the flood risk listMK43 0HJ: not on the flood risk listMK43 0HL: not on the flood risk listMK43 0HN: not on the flood risk listMK43 0HP: not on the flood risk listMK43 0HQ: not on the flood risk listMK43 0HR: not on the flood risk listMK43 0HS: not on the flood risk listMK43 0HT: not on the flood risk listMK43 0HU: not on the flood risk listMK43 0HW: not on the flood risk listMK43 0HX: not on the flood risk listMK43 0HY: not on the flood risk listMK43 0HZ: not on the flood risk listMK43 0JA: not on the flood risk listMK43 0JB: not on the flood risk listMK43 0JD: not on the flood risk listMK43 0JF: not on the flood risk listMK43 0JG: not on the flood risk listMK43 0JH: not on the flood risk listMK43 0JJ: not on the flood risk listMK43 0JL: not on the flood risk listMK43 0JN: not on the flood risk listMK43 0JP: not on the flood risk listMK43 0JQ: not on the flood risk listMK43 0JR: not on the flood risk listMK43 0JW: not on the flood risk listMK43 0LX: not on the flood risk listMK43 0SR: not on the flood risk listMK43 0SS: not on the flood risk listMK43 0ST: not on the flood risk listMK43 0SU: not on the flood risk listMK43 0SX: not on the flood risk listMK43 0SY: not on the flood risk listMK43 0SZ: not on the flood risk listMK43 0TA: not on the flood risk listMK43 0TD: not on the flood risk listMK43 0TE: not on the flood risk listMK43 0TG: not on the flood risk listMK43 0TH: not on the flood risk listMK43 0TQ: not on the flood risk listMK43 0TW: not on the flood risk listMK43 0WG: not on the flood risk listMK43 0WP: not on the flood risk listMK43 0WR: not on the flood risk listMK43 0WZ: not on the flood risk listMK43 0YE: not on the flood risk listMK43 0YF: not on the flood risk listMK43 0YN: not on the flood risk listMK43 0YQ: not on the flood risk listMK43 0YT: not on the flood risk listMK43 0YX: not on the flood risk listMK43 0ZE: not on the flood risk listMK43 0ZG: not on the flood risk listMK43 0ZU: not on the flood risk listMK43 1AA: not on the flood risk listMK43 1AB: not on the flood risk listMK43 1AD: not on the flood risk listMK43 1AF: not on the flood risk listMK43 1AG: not on the flood risk listMK43 1AH: not on the flood risk listMK43 1AL: not on the flood risk listMK43 1AP: not on the flood risk list Cranfield Map of every postcode in Cranfield, by flood risk Of the 149 postcodes in Cranfield that ONS places, 149 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Cranfield. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 1 km. Cranfield
  • A home or business at high risk: 0
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 0
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 149

Of the 149 postcodes in Cranfield that ONS places, 149 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.

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. 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 52.0720, longitude -0.6102. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: 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. How we use them

What is it like to live in Cranfield?

Homes sold for a typical £375,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 2.7% on the 12 months before. At 107 of the 147 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 149 postcodes is on the Environment Agency's list of those with a home or business at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. It has 1 primary school and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Marston Forest Healthcare, 4.4 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Lidlington, 4.9 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources

What do homes cost in Cranfield?

Homes in Cranfield sold for a typical £375,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 77 sales, up 2.7% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£375,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
£365,000 12 months to August 2025
▲ up 2.7% on the 12 months before
  • Detached £495,000 33 sales
  • Semi-detached £335,000 31 sales
  • Terraced £276,250 8 sales
  • Flat or maisonette £87,500 5 sales

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Across the whole MK43 district, Cranfield's main postcode district: a typical £380,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Cranfield: 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 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Are new homes being built in Cranfield?

5 of the 149 postcodes now in use in Cranfield came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 6 of the 69 homes sold in Cranfield were newly built (9%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the MK43 district, 9%.

The newest postcodes

MK43 0TNsince January 2023MK43 0YTsince December 2022MK43 0WRsince July 2022MK43 0SRsince August 2021MK43 1AHsince February 2020

A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn CranfieldAcross the MK43 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 77 (0%) 3 of 426 (Under 1%)
The 12 months to August 2025 6 of 69 (9%) 55 of 593 (9%)

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What broadband can you get in Cranfield?

Ofcom reports on 147 of the 149 postcodes in Cranfield. At 107 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit107 of 147
Postcodes where every home can get superfast125 of 147

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 checker

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Cranfield at risk of flooding?

None of the 149 postcodes in Cranfield is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

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, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which schools are in Cranfield?

The open schools at the postcodes in Cranfield. A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.

Primary

Secondary

Find and compare schools in England, on GOV.UK

Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it

How far is the station from Cranfield?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Cranfield is Lidlington Rail Station, 4.9 km away in a straight line.

  • Lidlington Rail Station Railway station 4.9 kmCycle
  • Ridgmont Rail Station Railway station 5.2 kmDrive
  • Millbrook (Beds) Rail Station Railway station 5.7 kmDrive

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which GP surgeries are in Cranfield?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Cranfield. These are the nearest to its middle, in a straight line. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

Find a GP on the NHS website

Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Cranfield safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 263 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Cranfield over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 21 September 2025
  2. 24 October 2025
  3. 19 November 2025
  4. 12 December 2025
  5. 15 January 2026
  6. 20 February 2026
  7. 21 March 2026
  8. 29 April 2026
  9. 21 May 2026
  10. 17 June 2026
  11. 33 July 2026
  12. 31 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences105 reports
Anti-social behaviour34 reports
Burglary29 reports
Other theft18 reports
Public order15 reports
Criminal damage and arson15 reports
Vehicle crime15 reports
Other crime11 reports

Also: shoplifting 9, drugs 9, bicycle theft 2, possession of weapons 1.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Crime around one postcode

Source: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Who runs Cranfield?

Council
Central Bedfordshire
Parliamentary constituency
Mid Bedfordshire
Police force area
Bedfordshire
Region
East of England
Country
England
MP
Blake Stephenson (Conservative)

All 149 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. The MP: UK Parliament. See all our data sources

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Cranfield postcodes

149 postcodes in use in Cranfield, by district:

MK43 postcode district,149 postcodes

That district is in the MK postcode area.

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Places near Cranfield

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Cranfield's £375,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Marston Moretaine4.3 km, £338,750Wootton6.2 km, £392,500Stewartby6.9 km, £339,500Woburn Sands6.9 km, £409,000Aspley Guise7.0 km, £550,000Newport Pagnell8.2 km, £330,000Great Denham9.1 km, £337,500Kempston9.3 km, £312,500 All places A to Z

Questions about Cranfield

What is it like to live in Cranfield?
Homes sold for a typical £375,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 2.7% on the 12 months before. At 107 of the 147 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 149 postcodes is on the Environment Agency's list of those with a home or business at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. It has 1 primary school and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Marston Forest Healthcare, 4.4 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Lidlington, 4.9 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
What is the postcode for Cranfield?
Cranfield is covered by postcode district MK43, across 149 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Cranfield in?
Cranfield is in the Central Bedfordshire council area. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Cranfield?
Cranfield is in the Mid Bedfordshire parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Blake Stephenson (Conservative), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Cranfield?
Homes in Cranfield sold for a typical £375,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 77 sales, up 2.7% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Cranfield?
In Cranfield, primary schools at its postcodes include Cranfield Church of England Academy; secondary schools at its postcodes include Holywell School. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Cranfield have a railway station?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Cranfield is Lidlington, 4.9 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Cranfield?
Ofcom reports on 147 of the 149 postcodes in Cranfield. At 107 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Cranfield at risk of flooding?
None of the 149 postcodes in Cranfield is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Cranfield?
5 of the 149 postcodes now in use in Cranfield came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 6 of the 69 homes sold in Cranfield were newly built (9%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the MK43 district, 9%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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