Schools
26 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 6 secondary schools. Arnold Academy is the nearest published school at 1.5 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LU2 8NG
Toddington · Central Bedfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Toddington
- Local authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire
- Postcode district
- LU2
- Postcode sector
- LU2 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LU2 8NG
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 May 1994
- Terminated
- 1 July 1997
- Postcode area
- LU
- Postcode district
- LU2
- Postcode sector
- LU2 8
- Latitude
- 51.943343
- Longitude
- -0.408356
- British National Grid easting
- 509,500
- British National Grid northing
- 228,400
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Central Bedfordshire · E06000056
- Electoral ward
- Toddington · E05014423
- Parish or community
- E04011989
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire · E14001359
- Output area
- E00088920
- Lower layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 018D · E01017616
- 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
- 26
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 6
- 2.4 km
Arnold Academy
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- 2.6 km
Ramsey Manor Lower School
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- 2.6 km
Cardinal Newman Catholic School A Specialist Science College
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Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LU2 8 residents
- 13,008
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
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
5
within 5 km straight-line
DR A SULAKSHANA & PARTNERS
HEXTON ROAD, BARTON-LE-CLAY, BEDFORD, MK45 4TA
ODS code E81046
2.6 km
BARTON HILLS MEDICAL GROUP
THE SURGERY, WHITEHORSE VALE, BARTON HILLS, LUTON, LU3 4AD
ODS code E81632
3.3 km
NEVILLE ROAD SURGERY
5 NEVILLE ROAD, LUTON, LU3 2JG
ODS code E81633
4.7 km
DR PS BATH'S PRACTICE
49 ASHCROFT ROAD, LUTON, LU2 9AU
ODS code E81617
4.8 km
STOPSLEY VILLAGE PRACTICE
26 ASHCROFT ROAD, LUTON, LU2 9AU
ODS code E81006
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 1.4 miles
Mill Lane
BCT · Hexton
- 1.4 miles
Mill Lane
BCT · Hexton
- 1.5 miles
Rectory Farm
BCT · Barton-le-Clay
- 1.5 miles
Rectory Farm
BCT · Barton-le-Clay
- 1.5 miles
Great Bramingham Lane
BCT · Warden Hill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Central Bedfordshire 018D, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
18,672 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 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.