Schools
23 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 6 secondary schools. Arnold Academy is the nearest published school at 1.4 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LU2 8NF
Barton-le-Clay & Silsoe · Central Bedfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire
- Postcode district
- LU2
- Postcode sector
- LU2 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LU2 8NF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LU
- Postcode district
- LU2
- Postcode sector
- LU2 8
- Latitude
- 51.944987
- Longitude
- -0.408938
- British National Grid easting
- 509,456
- British National Grid northing
- 228,582
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Central Bedfordshire · E06000056
- Electoral ward
- Barton-le-Clay & Silsoe · E05014397
- Parish or community
- E04011929
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire · E14001359
- Output area
- E00088630
- Lower layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 018B · E01017559
- Middle layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 018 · E02003636
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 LU2
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 23
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 6
- 2.2 km
Arnold Academy
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- 2.4 km
Ramsey Manor Lower School
Academy converter
- 2.8 km
Cardinal Newman Catholic School A Specialist Science College
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Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 4
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LU2 8 residents
- 13,008
2 female, 2 male
Age bands in LU2 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.5%
2,151 residents
1,323 residents
3,421 residents
3,604 residents
2,385 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LU2 8 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
5
within 5 km
DR A SULAKSHANA & PARTNERS
HEXTON ROAD, BARTON-LE-CLAY, BEDFORD, MK45 4TA
ODS code E81046
2.4 km
BARTON HILLS MEDICAL GROUP
THE SURGERY, WHITEHORSE VALE, BARTON HILLS, LUTON, LU3 4AD
ODS code E81632
3.4 km
NEVILLE ROAD SURGERY
5 NEVILLE ROAD, LUTON, LU3 2JG
ODS code E81633
4.9 km
DR PS BATH'S PRACTICE
49 ASHCROFT ROAD, LUTON, LU2 9AU
ODS code E81617
5.0 km
STOPSLEY VILLAGE PRACTICE
26 ASHCROFT ROAD, LUTON, LU2 9AU
ODS code E81006
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
- 1.3 miles
Mill Lane
BCT · Hexton
- 1.3 miles
Mill Lane
BCT · Hexton
- 1.4 miles
Rectory Farm
BCT · Barton-le-Clay
- 1.4 miles
Rectory Farm
BCT · Barton-le-Clay
- 1.5 miles
Frank Hamel Court
BCT · Barton-le-Clay
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Central Bedfordshire 018B, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
27,036 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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.