Property market
The five-year median is £170,000 from 11 recorded sales in LU1 3GE. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Luton is £289,790 in June 2026, up 2.9% year on year.
LU1 3GE
South · Luton · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LU1 3GE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 April 2018
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LU
- Postcode district
- LU1
- Postcode sector
- LU1 3
- Latitude
- 51.873647
- Longitude
- -0.418272
- British National Grid easting
- 508,987
- British National Grid northing
- 220,634
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Luton · E06000032
- Electoral ward
- South · E05014750
- Parish or community
- E43000027
- Westminster constituency
- Luton South and South Bedfordshire · E14001346
- Output area
- E00079545
- Lower layer super output area
- Luton 021A · E01015738
- Middle layer super output area
- Luton 021 · E02003278
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore LU1
Property
42 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Kensington Court, 16 - 36, Flat 14, South Road, Luton, LU1 3GE | 15 December 2025 | £174,500 |
| Kensington Court, 16 - 36, Flat 18, South Road, Luton, LU1 3GE | 19 May 2025 | £172,000 |
| Kensington Court, 16 - 36, Flat 10, South Road, Luton, LU1 3GE | 2 August 2024 | £167,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 67
- Primary
- 41
- Secondary
- 9
- 123 m
Chapel Street Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
- 351 m
Tennyson Road Primary School
Academy converter
- 461 m
Hillborough Infant and Nursery School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 9,219
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3,073
- Shoplifting 1,059
- Anti social behaviour 870
- Public order 689
- Vehicle crime 675
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 59
- Postcode households
- 36
- Residents per household
- 1.6
- LU1 3 residents
- 11,784
32 female, 27 male
Age bands in LU1 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 15.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 35.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 21.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 9.2%
2,200 residents
1,791 residents
4,121 residents
2,490 residents
1,071 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LU1 3 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
20
within 5 km
THE MEDICI MEDICAL PRACTICE
3 WINDSOR STREET, LUTON, LU1 3UA
ODS code E81073
95 m
CASTLE MEDICAL GROUP PRACTICE
27 CASTLE STREET, LUTON, LU1 3AG
ODS code E81013
272 m
THE TOWN CENTRE PRACTICE
14-16 CHAPEL STREET, LUTON, LU1 2SE
ODS code Y02463
469 m
BUTE HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
GROVE ROAD, LUTON, LU1 1RW
ODS code E81048
824 m
LEA VALE MEDICAL PRACTICE
9 MERSEY PLACE, LIVERPOOL ROAD, LUTON, LU1 1HH
ODS code E81032
946 m
BELL HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
163 DUNSTABLE ROAD, LUTON, LU1 1BW
ODS code E81005
1.3 km
MALZEARD ROAD PRACTICE
2A MALZEARD ROAD, LUTON, LU3 1BD
ODS code E81631
1.7 km
THE BLENHEIM MEDICAL CENTRE
9 BLENHEIM CRESCENT, LUTON, LU3 1HA
ODS code E81028
2.2 km
CONWAY MEDICAL CENTRE
385 DUNSTABLE ROAD, LUTON, LU4 8BY
ODS code E81063
2.4 km
KINGSWAY & BRAMINGHAM MEDICAL CENTRE
KINGSWAY PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 385 DUNSTABLE ROAD, LUTON, LU4 8BY
ODS code Y02332
2.4 km
WOODLAND AVENUE PRACTICE
30 WOODLAND AVENUE, LUTON, LU3 1RW
ODS code E81018
2.7 km
CADDINGTON SURGERY
33 MANOR ROAD, CADDINGTON, LUTON, LU1 4EE
ODS code E81069
2.9 km
LISTER HOUSE SURGERY
473-475 DUNSTABLE ROAD, LUTON, LU4 8DG
ODS code E81016
3.1 km
DR PS BATH'S PRACTICE
49 ASHCROFT ROAD, LUTON, LU2 9AU
ODS code E81617
3.5 km
STOPSLEY VILLAGE PRACTICE
26 ASHCROFT ROAD, LUTON, LU2 9AU
ODS code E81006
3.5 km
GARDENIA PRACTICE
2A GARDENIA AVENUE, LUTON, LU3 2NS
ODS code E81041
3.6 km
LARKSIDE PRACTICE
322 CRAWLEY GREEN ROAD, LUTON, LU2 9SB
ODS code E81026
4.0 km
NEVILLE ROAD SURGERY
5 NEVILLE ROAD, LUTON, LU3 2JG
ODS code E81633
4.0 km
DR WHM MATTA'S PRACTICE
37A LINDEN ROAD, LUTON, LU4 9QZ
ODS code E81010
4.2 km
THE OAKLEY SURGERY
ADDINGTON WAY, LUTON, LU4 9FJ
ODS code E81025
4.4 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Chapel Street Nursery
BCT · Chapel Langley
- 0.1 miles
Chapel Street nursery
BCT · Chapel Langley
- 0.1 miles
Elizabeth Street
BCT · Chapel Langley
- 0.1 miles
Elizabeth Street
BCT · Chapel Langley
- 0.1 miles
Holly Street
BCT · New Town
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Luton 021A, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
3 of 10
Overall England rank
7,638 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
67 open schools are in scope, including 41 primary and 9 secondary schools. Chapel Street Nursery School is the nearest published school at 123 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
9,219 published events cover 12 months, averaging 768.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3,073 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.