Property market
The five-year median is £677,500 from 2 recorded sales in LU1 4LQ. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Dacorum is £459,438 in June 2026, up 1.8% year on year.
LU1 4LQ
Watling · Dacorum · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LU1 4LQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LU
- Postcode district
- LU1
- Postcode sector
- LU1 4
- Latitude
- 51.837510
- Longitude
- -0.435186
- British National Grid easting
- 507,909
- British National Grid northing
- 216,590
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
Property
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| The Barn, Windmill Road, Pepperstock, Luton, LU1 4LQ | 25 November 2025 | £455,000 |
| Doone Brae Farm, Windmill Road, Pepperstock, Luton, LU1 4LQ | 29 September 2023 | £900,000 |
| Doone Brae Farm, Windmill Road, Pepperstock, Luton, LU1 4LQ | 29 June 2018 | £400,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 30
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.4 km
Claystone School
Other independent special school
- 1.6 km
Slip End Village School
Community school
- 2.2 km
Markyate Village School and Nursery
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 150
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 72
- Anti social behaviour 27
- Criminal damage and arson 22
- Public order 8
- Vehicle crime 5
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 4
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 1.0
- LU1 4 residents
- 6,233
0 female, 4 male
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
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LU1 4 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
6
within 5 km straight-line
CADDINGTON SURGERY
33 MANOR ROAD, CADDINGTON, LUTON, LU1 4EE
ODS code E81069
3.4 km
THE MEDICI MEDICAL PRACTICE
3 WINDSOR STREET, LUTON, LU1 3UA
ODS code E81073
4.3 km
CASTLE MEDICAL GROUP PRACTICE
27 CASTLE STREET, LUTON, LU1 3AG
ODS code E81013
4.4 km
THE TOWN CENTRE PRACTICE
14-16 CHAPEL STREET, LUTON, LU1 2SE
ODS code Y02463
4.7 km
BUTE HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
GROVE ROAD, LUTON, LU1 1RW
ODS code E81048
4.8 km
LEA VALE MEDICAL PRACTICE
9 MERSEY PLACE, LIVERPOOL ROAD, LUTON, LU1 1HH
ODS code E81032
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.7 miles
Holiday Inn
BCT · Markyate
- 0.7 miles
Holiday Inn
BCT · Markyate
- 0.9 miles
Brickhill Park
BCT · Pepperstock
- 0.9 miles
Woodside Animal Farm
BCT · Woodside
- 0.9 miles
Woodside Animal Farm
BCT · Woodside
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.
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
30 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 3 secondary schools. Claystone School is the nearest published school at 0.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
150 published events cover 12 months, averaging 12.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 72 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.