Wootton

Wootton is covered by postcode district MK43. It is in the Bedford council area, England.

ONS publishes this built-up area as Wootton (Bedford).

Typical price £392,500 Homes sold in Wootton, last 12 months. ▼ 0.6% on the year before Gigabit broadband 134 of 152 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Low risk only 1 of 152 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk Schools 2 1 primary school and 1 secondary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Wootton, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Wootton, by flood risk Of the 152 postcodes in Wootton that ONS places, 1 are at low risk at worst and 151 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Wootton. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A421 MK43 9AF: not on the flood risk listMK43 9AG: not on the flood risk listMK43 9AQ: not on the flood risk listMK43 9AU: not on the flood risk listMK43 9AZ: not on the flood risk listMK43 9BA: not on the flood risk listMK43 9BF: not on the flood risk listMK43 9BG: not on the flood risk listMK43 9BQ: not on the flood risk listMK43 9BX: not on the flood risk listMK43 9BY: not on the flood risk listMK43 9BZ: not on the flood risk listMK43 9DA: not on the flood risk listMK43 9DB: not on the flood risk listMK43 9DD: not on the flood risk listMK43 9DE: not on the flood risk listMK43 9DF: not on the flood risk listMK43 9DG: not on the flood risk listMK43 9DH: not on the flood risk listMK43 9DL: not on the flood risk listMK43 9DN: not on the flood risk listMK43 9DP: not on the flood risk listMK43 9DQ: not on the flood risk listMK43 9DR: not on the flood risk listMK43 9DS: not on the flood risk listMK43 9DT: not on the flood risk listMK43 9DU: not on the flood risk listMK43 9DW: not on the flood risk listMK43 9EB: not on the flood risk listMK43 9ED: not on the flood risk listMK43 9EG: not on the flood risk listMK43 9EN: not on the flood risk listMK43 9EP: not on the flood risk listMK43 9EQ: not on the flood risk listMK43 9ER: not on the flood risk listMK43 9ES: not on the flood risk listMK43 9ET: not on the flood risk listMK43 9EU: not on the flood risk listMK43 9EW: not on the flood risk listMK43 9EX: not on the flood risk listMK43 9EY: not on the flood risk listMK43 9EZ: not on the flood risk listMK43 9FA: not on the flood risk listMK43 9FB: not on the flood risk listMK43 9FD: not on the flood risk listMK43 9FE: not on the flood risk listMK43 9FG: not on the flood risk listMK43 9FH: not on the flood risk listMK43 9FJ: not on the flood risk listMK43 9FL: not on the flood risk listMK43 9FN: not on the flood risk listMK43 9FP: not on the flood risk listMK43 9FQ: not on the flood risk listMK43 9FR: not on the flood risk listMK43 9FS: not on the flood risk listMK43 9FT: not on the flood risk listMK43 9FU: not on the flood risk listMK43 9FW: not on the flood risk listMK43 9FX: not on the flood risk listMK43 9FY: not on the flood risk listMK43 9FZ: not on the flood risk listMK43 9GY: not on the flood risk listMK43 9GZ: not on the flood risk listMK43 9HA: not on the flood risk listMK43 9HB: not on the flood risk listMK43 9HD: not on the flood risk listMK43 9HE: not on the flood risk listMK43 9HF: not on the flood risk listMK43 9HH: not on the flood risk listMK43 9HQ: not on the flood risk listMK43 9HT: not on the flood risk listMK43 9HU: not on the flood risk listMK43 9HW: not on the flood risk listMK43 9HZ: not on the flood risk listMK43 9JA: not on the flood risk listMK43 9JB: not on the flood risk listMK43 9JD: not on the flood risk listMK43 9JE: not on the flood risk listMK43 9JF: not on the flood risk listMK43 9JG: not on the flood risk listMK43 9JH: not on the flood risk listMK43 9JJ: not on the flood risk listMK43 9JL: not on the flood risk listMK43 9JN: not on the flood risk listMK43 9JP: not on the flood risk listMK43 9JQ: not on the flood risk listMK43 9JR: not on the flood risk listMK43 9JS: not on the flood risk listMK43 9JT: not on the flood risk listMK43 9JU: not on the flood risk listMK43 9JW: not on the flood risk listMK43 9JX: not on the flood risk listMK43 9JY: not on the flood risk listMK43 9JZ: not on the flood risk listMK43 9LA: not on the flood risk listMK43 9LB: not on the flood risk listMK43 9LD: not on the flood risk listMK43 9LF: not on the flood risk listMK43 9LH: not on the flood risk listMK43 9PA: not on the flood risk listMK43 9PB: not on the flood risk listMK43 9PD: not on the flood risk listMK43 9PH: not on the flood risk listMK43 9PJ: not on the flood risk listMK43 9PS: not on the flood risk listMK43 9PT: not on the flood risk listMK43 9PU: not on the flood risk listMK43 9PX: not on the flood risk listMK43 9PY: not on the flood risk listMK43 9PZ: not on the flood risk listMK43 9QA: not on the flood risk listMK43 9QB: not on the flood risk listMK43 9QD: not on the flood risk listMK43 9QE: not on the flood risk listMK43 9QF: not on the flood risk listMK43 9QG: not on the flood risk listMK43 9QH: not on the flood risk listMK43 9QJ: not on the flood risk listMK43 9QN: not on the flood risk listMK43 9QP: not on the flood risk listMK43 9QQ: not on the flood risk listMK43 9QR: not on the flood risk listMK43 9QS: not on the flood risk listMK43 9QT: not on the flood risk listMK43 9QU: not on the flood risk listMK43 9QW: not on the flood risk listMK43 9QX: not on the flood risk listMK43 9QY: not on the flood risk listMK43 9QZ: not on the flood risk listMK43 9RA: not on the flood risk listMK43 9RB: not on the flood risk listMK43 9RD: not on the flood risk listMK43 9RE: not on the flood risk listMK43 9RF: not on the flood risk listMK43 9RH: not on the flood risk listMK43 9RJ: not on the flood risk listMK43 9RL: not on the flood risk listMK43 9RN: not on the flood risk listMK43 9RP: not on the flood risk listMK43 9RQ: not on the flood risk listMK43 9RR: not on the flood risk listMK43 9RS: not on the flood risk listMK43 9RT: not on the flood risk listMK43 9RU: not on the flood risk listMK43 9RW: not on the flood risk listMK43 9RX: not on the flood risk listMK43 9SP: not on the flood risk listMK43 9SQ: not on the flood risk listMK43 9ST: not on the flood risk listMK43 9TE: not on the flood risk listMK43 9TL: not on the flood risk listMK43 9DJ: low flood risk at worst Wootton Map of every postcode in Wootton, by flood risk Of the 152 postcodes in Wootton that ONS places, 1 are at low risk at worst and 151 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Wootton. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. A421 Wootton
  • A home or business at high risk: 0
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 1
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 151

Of the 152 postcodes in Wootton that ONS places, 1 are at low risk at worst and 151 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.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 52.0952, longitude -0.5275. 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 Wootton?

Homes sold for a typical £392,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 0.6% on the 12 months before. At 134 of the 152 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts no home or business at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 1 of its 152 postcodes. It has 1 primary school and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Kempston Hardwick, 1.6 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 Wootton?

Homes in Wootton sold for a typical £392,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 68 sales, down 0.6% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£392,500 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
£395,000 12 months to August 2025
▼ down 0.6% on the 12 months before
  • Detached £470,000 34 sales
  • Semi-detached £342,000 23 sales
  • Terraced £335,000 10 sales
  • Flat or maisonette 1 sale, too few to price

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

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

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Wootton: 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 Wootton?

11 of the 152 postcodes now in use in Wootton came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 99 homes sold in Wootton were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the MK43 district, 9%.

The newest postcodes

MK43 9RSsince December 2021MK43 9RXsince December 2021MK43 9TLsince November 2021MK43 9QYsince September 2021MK43 9RWsince April 2021MK43 9QGsince March 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 WoottonAcross the MK43 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 68 (0%) 3 of 426 (Under 1%)
The 12 months to August 2025 0 of 99 (0%) 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 Wootton?

Ofcom reports on 152 of the 152 postcodes in Wootton. At 134 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit134 of 152
Postcodes where every home can get superfast146 of 152

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 Wootton at risk of flooding?

1 of the 152 postcodes in Wootton has a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts none of the homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 1 of 152 postcodes Low: 1

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, 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 Wootton?

The open schools at the postcodes in Wootton. 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

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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 Wootton?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Wootton is Kempston Hardwick Rail Station, 1.6 km away in a straight line.

  • Kempston Hardwick Rail Station Railway station 1.6 kmCycle
  • Stewartby Rail Station Railway station 2.9 kmCycle
  • Millbrook (Beds) Rail Station Railway station 4.6 kmCycle

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 Wootton?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Wootton. 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 Wootton safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 307 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Wootton 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. 21 October 2025
  3. 15 November 2025
  4. 21 December 2025
  5. 26 January 2026
  6. 13 February 2026
  7. 28 March 2026
  8. 34 April 2026
  9. 38 May 2026
  10. 30 June 2026
  11. 26 July 2026
  12. 34 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences135 reports
Anti-social behaviour67 reports
Public order25 reports
Other theft23 reports
Criminal damage and arson21 reports
Vehicle crime8 reports
Shoplifting7 reports
Other crime7 reports

Also: possession of weapons 5, burglary 3, bicycle theft 3, drugs 2, robbery 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 Wootton?

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

All 152 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

Moving to Wootton

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Wootton postcodes

152 postcodes in use in Wootton, by district:

MK43 postcode district,152 postcodes

That district is in the MK postcode area.

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Places near Wootton

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Wootton's £392,500. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Stewartby3.0 km, £339,500Kempston3.3 km, £312,500Great Denham3.7 km, £337,500Marston Moretaine3.8 km, £338,750Wixams4.2 km, £375,000Bromham5.7 km, £415,000Wilstead5.9 km, £417,500Cranfield6.2 km, £375,000 All places A to Z

Questions about Wootton

What is it like to live in Wootton?
Homes sold for a typical £392,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 0.6% on the 12 months before. At 134 of the 152 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts no home or business at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 1 of its 152 postcodes. It has 1 primary school and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Kempston Hardwick, 1.6 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 Wootton?
Wootton is covered by postcode district MK43, across 152 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Wootton in?
Wootton is in the Bedford council area. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Wootton?
Wootton 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 Wootton?
Homes in Wootton sold for a typical £392,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 68 sales, down 0.6% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Wootton?
In Wootton, primary schools at its postcodes include Wootton Primary School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Wootton Academy. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Wootton have a railway station?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Wootton is Kempston Hardwick, 1.6 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Wootton?
Ofcom reports on 152 of the 152 postcodes in Wootton. At 134 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Wootton at risk of flooding?
1 of the 152 postcodes in Wootton has a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts none of the homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Wootton?
11 of the 152 postcodes now in use in Wootton came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 99 homes sold in Wootton were newly built (0%), 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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