Bedford
TownTown in Bedford, East of England.
Bedford is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Bedford add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Gigabit coverage by town
Connected Nations (Ofcom) · January 2026
In Bedford, 91.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How Bedford compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Bedford safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Bedford at a rate of 126.6 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 80.2 per 1,000 people across East of England.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 1,331 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Bedford.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (4,375), other crime (2,299) and anti-social behaviour (1,908).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Bedford was 117.8 per 1,000 people.
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Deprivation in Bedford, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Bedford has no single figure. Of its 63 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 11 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 9 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 6 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Bedford
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bedford 004F | 1,745 | 52.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 92.2% |
| Bedford 004I | 1,156 | 38.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 67.9% |
| Bedford 005A | 1,361 | 113.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.4% |
| Bedford 005B | 1,456 | 49.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Bedford 005C | 1,416 | 67.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.6% |
| Bedford 005D | 1,485 | 43.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.5% |
| Bedford 005E | 1,210 | 116.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.5% |
| Bedford 005F | 1,233 | 22.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.8% |
| Bedford 006A | 1,283 | 50.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Bedford 006B | 1,441 | 24.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.5% |
| Bedford 006C | 1,342 | 65.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Bedford 006D | 1,299 | 59.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.6% |
| Bedford 006E | 1,165 | 52.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.4% |
| Bedford 006F | 1,531 | 36.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Bedford 007A | 1,560 | 41.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.0% |
| Bedford 007B | 1,609 | 78.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.8% |
| Bedford 007C | 1,366 | 166.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.0% |
| Bedford 007D | 1,555 | 67.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.4% |
| Bedford 007E | 1,471 | 183.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.3% |
| Bedford 007F | 1,648 | 86.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.7% |
| Bedford 008B | 2,360 | 50.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 89.8% |
| Bedford 008F | 1,520 | 57.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.0% |
| Bedford 009A | 1,411 | 83.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.5% |
| Bedford 009B | 1,743 | 36.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.5% |
| Bedford 009C | 1,405 | 105.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 78.8% |
| Bedford 009D | 1,376 | 42.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.4% |
| Bedford 010A | 1,369 | 121.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.8% |
| Bedford 010B | 1,187 | 91.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.5% |
| Bedford 010C | 1,380 | 194.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 85.5% |
| Bedford 010D | 1,192 | 36.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.7% |
| Bedford 010E | 1,879 | 115.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 78.3% |
| Bedford 010F | 1,863 | 374.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 86.2% |
| Bedford 011A | 1,689 | 169.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.4% |
| Bedford 011B | 1,231 | 49.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Bedford 011C | 1,501 | 20.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.2% |
| Bedford 011D | 1,189 | 156.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.3% |
| Bedford 012A | 2,306 | 463.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 72.5% |
| Bedford 012B | 1,363 | 35.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.2% |
| Bedford 012C | 1,381 | 54.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.8% |
| Bedford 012E | 1,309 | 42.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.8% |
| Bedford 012F | 1,884 | 394.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 74.6% |
| Bedford 012G | 1,125 | 93.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 62.3% |
| Bedford 012H | 1,280 | 641.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 40.2% |
| Bedford 013A | 2,211 | 62.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.6% |
| Bedford 013B | 2,541 | 92.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 79.4% |
| Bedford 013C | 1,498 | 76.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.0% |
| Bedford 013D | 1,885 | 127.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.3% |
| Bedford 013E | 1,644 | 69.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.3% |
| Bedford 014A | 1,736 | 116.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.2% |
| Bedford 014B | 1,635 | 199.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.1% |
| Bedford 014C | 1,827 | 91.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 75.4% |
| Bedford 014D | 1,642 | 86.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.1% |
| Bedford 014E | 2,087 | 386.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 82.3% |
| Bedford 014F | 1,756 | 88.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Bedford 015A | 1,540 | 97.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.3% |
| Bedford 015C | 1,881 | 133.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 95.7% |
| Bedford 015D | 1,631 | 150.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.0% |
| Bedford 015E | 1,525 | 51.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.7% |
| Bedford 015F | 1,341 | 107.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.1% |
| Bedford 015G | 1,889 | 296.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 82.1% |
| Bedford 015H | 1,559 | 125.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 63.8% |
| Bedford 022A | 1,914 | 68.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.3% |
| Bedford 022B | 1,240 | 146.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 96.8% |
Your MP
- Mohammad YasinLabourMP for Bedford
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Council1
Postcode districts covering Bedford3
Middle areas in Bedford10
Towns near Bedford6
Bedford in brief
Bedford is a town in Bedford, East of England.
About 101,383 people lived in Bedford in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £330,000 in 2025 across 1,086 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 126.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Bedford was £330,000 in 2025.
Bedford had 97,226 usual residents at the census.
In Bedford, 91.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Bedford, 5.7% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.