Bedford 018B
NeighbourhoodSouth Bedford. 1,776 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 0.3 square kilometres.
Deprivation by neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025
In the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, Bedford 018B is in decile 3.
How Bedford 018B compares
Each dot is a neighbourhood. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Bedford 018B safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Bedford 018B at a rate of 318.1 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 114.7 per 1,000 people across Kempston West & South.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 66 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Bedford 018B.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (165), other crime (133) and shoplifting (114).
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.
Figures for the whole of Bedford
These figures are published for the whole of Bedford, not for each neighbourhood, so they describe all of Bedford and not Bedford 018B alone. See Bedford
Bedford 018B in brief
Bedford 018B has a deprivation score of 32.5 in the English Indices of Deprivation 2025.
Bedford 018B had 1,725 usual residents at the census.
In Bedford 018B, 96.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Bedford 018B, 5.3% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.