Schools
31 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 3 secondary schools. Claystone School is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LU1 4GQ
Watling · Dacorum · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Watling
- Local authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted
- Postcode district
- LU1
- Postcode sector
- LU1 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LU1 4GQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 April 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LU
- Postcode district
- LU1
- Postcode sector
- LU1 4
- Latitude
- 51.839276
- Longitude
- -0.434138
- British National Grid easting
- 507,977
- British National Grid northing
- 216,788
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Dacorum · E07000096
- Electoral ward
- Watling · E05004714
- Parish or community
- E04004700
- Westminster constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted · E14001268
- Output area
- E00119021
- Lower layer super output area
- Dacorum 001A · E01023430
- Middle layer super output area
- Dacorum 001 · E02004856
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 31
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.2 km
Claystone School
Other independent special school
- 1.4 km
Slip End Village School
Community school
- 2.3 km
Markyate Village School and Nursery
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 159
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 77
- Anti social behaviour 27
- Criminal damage and arson 23
- Public order 9
- Drugs 5
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LU1 4 residents
- 6,233
Age bands in LU1 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.2%
935 residents
546 residents
1,416 residents
1,698 residents
1,635 residents
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.
GP practices
6
within 5 km straight-line
CADDINGTON SURGERY
33 MANOR ROAD, CADDINGTON, LUTON, LU1 4EE
ODS code E81069
3.3 km
THE MEDICI MEDICAL PRACTICE
3 WINDSOR STREET, LUTON, LU1 3UA
ODS code E81073
4.1 km
CASTLE MEDICAL GROUP PRACTICE
27 CASTLE STREET, LUTON, LU1 3AG
ODS code E81013
4.2 km
THE TOWN CENTRE PRACTICE
14-16 CHAPEL STREET, LUTON, LU1 2SE
ODS code Y02463
4.4 km
BUTE HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
GROVE ROAD, LUTON, LU1 1RW
ODS code E81048
4.6 km
LEA VALE MEDICAL PRACTICE
9 MERSEY PLACE, LIVERPOOL ROAD, LUTON, LU1 1HH
ODS code E81032
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.7 miles
Brickhill Park
BCT · Pepperstock
- 0.8 miles
Woodside Animal Farm
BCT · Woodside
- 0.8 miles
Mancroft Road South-end
BCT · Woodside
- 0.9 miles
Holiday Inn
BCT · Markyate
- 0.9 miles
Pepsal End Lane
BCT · Pepperstock
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dacorum 001A, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
24,403 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
159 published events cover 12 months, averaging 13.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 77 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.