Langford

Langford is covered by postcode district SG18. It is in the Central Bedfordshire council area, England.

ONS publishes this built-up area as Langford (Central Bedfordshire).

Typical price £380,000 Homes sold in Langford, last 12 months Gigabit broadband 76 of 87 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 15 of 87 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 120 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 1 1 primary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Langford, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Langford, by flood risk Of the 87 postcodes in Langford that ONS places, 4 have a home or business at high risk, 5 are at medium risk at worst, 5 are at low risk at worst, 1 are at very low risk only and 72 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. One group of postcodes at high or medium risk is outlined: 6 postcodes at high or medium risk. Places named: Langford. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. SG18 9BZ: not on the flood risk listSG18 9DZ: not on the flood risk listSG18 9FA: not on the flood risk listSG18 9FF: not on the flood risk listSG18 9FG: not on the flood risk listSG18 9FH: not on the flood risk listSG18 9FJ: not on the flood risk listSG18 9FL: not on the flood risk listSG18 9FP: not on the flood risk listSG18 9FQ: not on the flood risk listSG18 9FR: not on the flood risk listSG18 9FS: not on the flood risk listSG18 9FU: not on the flood risk listSG18 9FW: not on the flood risk listSG18 9GD: not on the flood risk listSG18 9GJ: not on the flood risk listSG18 9GS: not on the flood risk listSG18 9JS: not on the flood risk listSG18 9NE: not on the flood risk listSG18 9NG: not on the flood risk listSG18 9NQ: not on the flood risk listSG18 9NS: not on the flood risk listSG18 9NU: not on the flood risk listSG18 9NY: not on the flood risk listSG18 9NZ: not on the flood risk listSG18 9PA: not on the flood risk listSG18 9PB: not on the flood risk listSG18 9PD: not on the flood risk listSG18 9PE: not on the flood risk listSG18 9PF: not on the flood risk listSG18 9PG: not on the flood risk listSG18 9PH: not on the flood risk listSG18 9PL: not on the flood risk listSG18 9PN: not on the flood risk listSG18 9PP: not on the flood risk listSG18 9PQ: not on the flood risk listSG18 9PR: not on the flood risk listSG18 9PS: not on the flood risk listSG18 9PT: not on the flood risk listSG18 9PU: not on the flood risk listSG18 9PW: not on the flood risk listSG18 9PX: not on the flood risk listSG18 9PY: not on the flood risk listSG18 9QA: not on the flood risk listSG18 9QD: not on the flood risk listSG18 9QE: not on the flood risk listSG18 9QF: not on the flood risk listSG18 9QG: not on the flood risk listSG18 9QH: not on the flood risk listSG18 9QJ: not on the flood risk listSG18 9QL: not on the flood risk listSG18 9QN: not on the flood risk listSG18 9QP: not on the flood risk listSG18 9QQ: not on the flood risk listSG18 9QR: not on the flood risk listSG18 9QS: not on the flood risk listSG18 9QT: not on the flood risk listSG18 9QU: not on the flood risk listSG18 9QW: not on the flood risk listSG18 9QZ: not on the flood risk listSG18 9RD: not on the flood risk listSG18 9RF: not on the flood risk listSG18 9RP: not on the flood risk listSG18 9RR: not on the flood risk listSG18 9RS: not on the flood risk listSG18 9RT: not on the flood risk listSG18 9SF: not on the flood risk listSG18 9SG: not on the flood risk listSG18 9SH: not on the flood risk listSG18 9SJ: not on the flood risk listSG18 9SQ: not on the flood risk listSG18 9UA: not on the flood risk listSG18 9QX: very low flood risk onlySG18 9NX: low flood risk at worstSG18 9QB: low flood risk at worstSG18 9QY: low flood risk at worstSG18 9RE: low flood risk at worstSG18 9UR: low flood risk at worstSG18 9RL: medium flood risk at worstSG18 9RU: medium flood risk at worstSG18 9RW: medium flood risk at worstSG18 9RY: medium flood risk at worstSG18 9SE: medium flood risk at worstSG18 9LZ: high flood riskSG18 9RZ: high flood riskSG18 9SA: high flood riskSG18 9SD: high flood risk Langford 6 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined: this goes to SG18 9RZ, the one with most homes and businesses at high risk6 postcodes at high or medium risk Map of every postcode in Langford, by flood risk Of the 87 postcodes in Langford that ONS places, 4 have a home or business at high risk, 5 are at medium risk at worst, 5 are at low risk at worst, 1 are at very low risk only and 72 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. One group of postcodes at high or medium risk is outlined: 6 postcodes at high or medium risk. Places named: Langford. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. Langford
  • A home or business at high risk: 4
  • At medium risk at worst: 5
  • At low risk at worst: 5
  • At very low risk only: 1
  • Not on the at-risk list: 72
  • Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together

Of the 87 postcodes in Langford that ONS places, 4 have a home or business at high risk, 5 are at medium risk at worst, 5 are at low risk at worst, 1 are at very low risk only and 72 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. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 180 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 52.0538, longitude -0.2703. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 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.

The postcodes at high risk

Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.

SG18 9SD10 at high riskSG18 9LZ6 at high riskSG18 9RZ5 at high riskSG18 9SA5 at high risk

Where the postcodes at high or medium risk lie together

  • 6 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. SG18 9RZ, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.

What is it like to live in Langford?

Homes sold for a typical £380,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 76 of the 87 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 120 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 15 of its 87 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Saffron Health Partnership, 3.4 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Arlesey, 3.1 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

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

Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in Langford?

Homes in Langford sold for a typical £380,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 39 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £393,000 from 83 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

£380,000 typical price, the 12 months to September 2026
£393,000 12 months to September 2025
  • Detached £550,000 13 sales
  • Semi-detached £365,000 12 sales
  • Terraced £337,500 10 sales
  • Flat or maisonette 4 sales, too few to price

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

Across the whole SG18 district, Langford's main postcode district: a typical £360,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Langford: 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.

Are new homes being built in Langford?

5 of the 87 postcodes now in use in Langford came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 5 of the 83 homes sold in Langford were newly built (6%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the SG18 district, 9%.

The newest postcodes

SG18 9GSsince November 2023SG18 9GJsince July 2022SG18 9RFsince February 2022SG18 9RDsince November 2021SG18 9GDsince January 2021

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 LangfordAcross the SG18 district
The 12 months to September 2026 0 of 39 (0%) 6 of 389 (2%)
The 12 months to September 2025 5 of 83 (6%) 56 of 639 (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.

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

What broadband can you get in Langford?

Ofcom reports on 87 of the 87 postcodes in Langford. At 76 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit76 of 87
Postcodes where every home can get superfast86 of 87

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, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is Langford at risk of flooding?

15 of the 87 postcodes in Langford 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 120 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 15 of 87 postcodes High: 26Medium: 94Low: 45Very low: 3

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.

Which schools are in Langford?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Langford. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.

Primary

Secondary

An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).

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Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

How far is the station from Langford?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Langford is Arlesey Rail Station, 3.1 km away in a straight line.

  • Arlesey Rail Station Railway station 3.1 kmCycle
  • Biggleswade Rail Station Railway station 3.5 kmCycle
  • Sandy Rail Station Railway station 7.9 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: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in Langford?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Langford. 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

Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

Is Langford safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 211 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Langford 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. 14 September 2025
  2. 11 October 2025
  3. 12 November 2025
  4. 11 December 2025
  5. 13 January 2026
  6. 16 February 2026
  7. 20 March 2026
  8. 28 April 2026
  9. 25 May 2026
  10. 17 June 2026
  11. 22 July 2026
  12. 22 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Anti-social behaviour71 reports
Violence and sexual offences64 reports
Other theft19 reports
Criminal damage and arson16 reports
Public order14 reports
Burglary9 reports
Drugs5 reports
Vehicle crime3 reports

Also: possession of weapons 3, other crime 3, shoplifting 2, robbery 2.

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 to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Langford?

Parliamentary constituency
Hitchin
Police force area
Bedfordshire
Region
East of England
Country
England
MP
Alistair Strathern (Labour)

All 87 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.

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Langford postcodes

87 postcodes in use in Langford, by district:

SG18 postcode district,87 postcodes

That district is in the SG postcode area.

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Places near Langford

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Langford's £380,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Henlow2.7 km, £390,000Clifton, Central Bedfordshire2.9 km, £410,000Biggleswade3.9 km, £341,250Arlesey4.5 km, £338,000Shefford4.6 km, £370,000Stotfold5.2 km, £420,000Lower Stondon6.0 km, £370,000Chicksands6.5 km, £352,500 All places A to Z

Quick answers about Langford

What is the postcode for Langford?
Postcode district SG18, with 87 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
Which council is Langford in?
Central Bedfordshire. Source: ONS.
Who is the MP for Langford?
Alistair Strathern (Labour), for Hitchin. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
How much are houses in Langford?
A typical £380,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 39 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
What schools are in Langford?
Primary schools at its postcodes include Langford Village Academy; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Henlow Church of England Academy, 2.4 km away. Source: Department for Education.
Does Langford have a railway station?
The nearest is Arlesey station, 3.1 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
What broadband can you get in Langford?
Ofcom reports on 87 of the 87 postcodes in Langford. At 76 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
Is Langford at risk of flooding?
15 of the 87 postcodes in Langford 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 120 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Langford?
5 of the 87 postcodes now in use in Langford came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 5 of the 83 homes sold in Langford were newly built (6%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the SG18 district, 9%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.

Where the facts on this page come from

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. This uses Care Quality Commission information. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.

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