Schools
51 open schools are in scope, including 32 primary and 8 secondary schools. Priory Academy is the nearest published school at 662 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LU5 4HF
Dunstable East · Central Bedfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Dunstable East
- Local authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard
- Postcode district
- LU5
- Postcode sector
- LU5 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LU5 4HF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 November 2003
- Postcode area
- LU
- Postcode district
- LU5
- Postcode sector
- LU5 4
- Latitude
- 51.889792
- Longitude
- -0.519542
- British National Grid easting
- 501,979
- British National Grid northing
- 222,283
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Central Bedfordshire · E06000056
- Electoral ward
- Dunstable East · E05014404
- Parish or community
- E04012806
- Westminster constituency
- Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard · E14001206
- Output area
- E00088686
- Lower layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 029G · E01033837
- Middle layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 029 · E02003647
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 LU5
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 51
- Primary
- 32
- Secondary
- 8
- 662 m
Priory Academy
Academy converter
- 763 m
Dunstable Icknield Lower School
Academy converter
- 924 m
Ashton St Peter's VA C of E School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,854
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 941
- Anti social behaviour 368
- Shoplifting 300
- Vehicle crime 229
- Other theft 198
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LU5 4 residents
- 14,795
Age bands in LU5 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.7%
2,727 residents
1,494 residents
4,232 residents
3,679 residents
2,439 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
13
within 5 km straight-line
PRIORY GARDENS SURGERY
GROVE VIEW INTEGRATED, COURT DRIVE, DUNSTABLE, LU5 4JD
ODS code E81014
316 m
KINGSBURY COURT SURGERY
CHURCH STREET, DUNSTABLE, LU5 4RS
ODS code E81045
342 m
EASTGATE SURGERY
EASTGATE HOUSE, 28-34 CHURCH STREET, DUNSTABLE, LU5 4RU
ODS code E81635
409 m
WEST STREET SURGERY
89 WEST STREET, DUNSTABLE, LU6 1SF
ODS code E81009
718 m
KIRBY ROAD SURGERY
58 KIRBY ROAD, DUNSTABLE, LU6 3JH
ODS code E81052
877 m
HOUGHTON REGIS MEDICAL CENTRE
PEEL STREET, HOUGHTON REGIS, DUNSTABLE, LU5 5EZ
ODS code E81027
1.8 km
WHEATFIELD SURGERY
60 WHEATFIELD ROAD, LEWSEY FARM, LUTON, LU4 0SY
ODS code E81008
2.1 km
DR DV SHAH'S PRACTICE
PASTURES WAY, LEWSEY FARM, LUTON, LU4 0PF
ODS code E81076
2.6 km
DRS MIRZA SUKHANI & PARTNERS
THE SURGERY, 30 THE GREEN, HOCKWELL RING, LUTON, LU4 9NN
ODS code E81612
3.7 km
THE OAKLEY SURGERY
ADDINGTON WAY, LUTON, LU4 9FJ
ODS code E81025
3.8 km
SUNDON MEDICAL CENTRE
SUNDON PARK HC, 142-144 SUNDON PARK ROAD, SUNDON PARK, LUTON, LU3 3AH
ODS code E81040
4.5 km
DR WHM MATTA'S PRACTICE
37A LINDEN ROAD, LUTON, LU4 9QZ
ODS code E81010
4.5 km
LISTER HOUSE SURGERY
473-475 DUNSTABLE ROAD, LUTON, LU4 8DG
ODS code E81016
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Grove Theatre
BCT · Dunstable
- 0.1 miles
Asda
BCT · Dunstable
- 0.1 miles
Central Bedfordshire College
BCT · Dunstable
- 0.1 miles
Central Bedfordshire College
BCT · Dunstable
- 0.2 miles
White Lion Retail Park
BCT · Dunstable
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Central Bedfordshire 029G, 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
17,830 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
2,854 published events cover 12 months, averaging 237.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 941 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.