Schools
57 open schools are in scope, including 35 primary and 7 secondary schools. Oakwood Primary School is the nearest published school at 703 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LU1 4LX
South · Luton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- South
- Local authority
- Luton
- Constituency
- Luton South and South Bedfordshire
- Postcode district
- LU1
- Postcode sector
- LU1 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LU1 4LX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 1981
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LU
- Postcode district
- LU1
- Postcode sector
- LU1 4
- Latitude
- 51.864129
- Longitude
- -0.420610
- British National Grid easting
- 508,849
- British National Grid northing
- 219,572
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
- E00079549
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 57
- Primary
- 35
- Secondary
- 7
- 703 m
Oakwood Primary School
Other independent school
- 811 m
Tennyson Road Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.0 km
Hillborough Infant and Nursery School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,302
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,229
- Anti social behaviour 354
- Vehicle crime 328
- Public order 270
- Drugs 258
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 1
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 1.0
- LU1 4 residents
- 6,233
1 female, 0 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% 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.
GP practices
19
within 5 km
THE MEDICI MEDICAL PRACTICE
3 WINDSOR STREET, LUTON, LU1 3UA
ODS code E81073
1.2 km
CASTLE MEDICAL GROUP PRACTICE
27 CASTLE STREET, LUTON, LU1 3AG
ODS code E81013
1.3 km
THE TOWN CENTRE PRACTICE
14-16 CHAPEL STREET, LUTON, LU1 2SE
ODS code Y02463
1.5 km
BUTE HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
GROVE ROAD, LUTON, LU1 1RW
ODS code E81048
1.8 km
LEA VALE MEDICAL PRACTICE
9 MERSEY PLACE, LIVERPOOL ROAD, LUTON, LU1 1HH
ODS code E81032
2.0 km
BELL HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
163 DUNSTABLE ROAD, LUTON, LU1 1BW
ODS code E81005
2.3 km
CADDINGTON SURGERY
33 MANOR ROAD, CADDINGTON, LUTON, LU1 4EE
ODS code E81069
2.6 km
MALZEARD ROAD PRACTICE
2A MALZEARD ROAD, LUTON, LU3 1BD
ODS code E81631
2.7 km
THE BLENHEIM MEDICAL CENTRE
9 BLENHEIM CRESCENT, LUTON, LU3 1HA
ODS code E81028
3.2 km
CONWAY MEDICAL CENTRE
385 DUNSTABLE ROAD, LUTON, LU4 8BY
ODS code E81063
3.2 km
KINGSWAY & BRAMINGHAM MEDICAL CENTRE
KINGSWAY PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 385 DUNSTABLE ROAD, LUTON, LU4 8BY
ODS code Y02332
3.2 km
WOODLAND AVENUE PRACTICE
30 WOODLAND AVENUE, LUTON, LU3 1RW
ODS code E81018
3.6 km
LISTER HOUSE SURGERY
473-475 DUNSTABLE ROAD, LUTON, LU4 8DG
ODS code E81016
3.8 km
GARDENIA PRACTICE
2A GARDENIA AVENUE, LUTON, LU3 2NS
ODS code E81041
4.5 km
DR PS BATH'S PRACTICE
49 ASHCROFT ROAD, LUTON, LU2 9AU
ODS code E81617
4.5 km
STOPSLEY VILLAGE PRACTICE
26 ASHCROFT ROAD, LUTON, LU2 9AU
ODS code E81006
4.5 km
LARKSIDE PRACTICE
322 CRAWLEY GREEN ROAD, LUTON, LU2 9SB
ODS code E81026
4.7 km
DR WHM MATTA'S PRACTICE
37A LINDEN ROAD, LUTON, LU4 9QZ
ODS code E81010
4.9 km
NEVILLE ROAD SURGERY
5 NEVILLE ROAD, LUTON, LU3 2JG
ODS code E81633
5.0 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Ludlow Avenue
BCT · Stockwood
- 0.2 miles
Stockwood Park Entrance
BCT · Stockwood
- 0.2 miles
Cutenhoe Court
BCT · Stockwood
- 0.2 miles
Stockwood Park Entrance
BCT · Stockwood
- 0.2 miles
Gardner Court
BCT · Stockwood
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
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- 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
Recorded crime
3,302 published events cover 12 months, averaging 275.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,229 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.