Schools
15 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 4 secondary schools. Harlington Upper School is the nearest published school at 308 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LU5 6LH
Toddington · Central Bedfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Toddington
- Local authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire
- Postcode district
- LU5
- Postcode sector
- LU5 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LU5 6LH
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1991
- Postcode area
- LU
- Postcode district
- LU5
- Postcode sector
- LU5 6
- Latitude
- 51.966811
- Longitude
- -0.483220
- British National Grid easting
- 504,300
- British National Grid northing
- 230,900
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
- E04011953
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire · E14001359
- Output area
- E00087915
- Lower layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 017B · E01017408
- Middle layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 017 · E02003615
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
- 15
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 4
- 308 m
Harlington Upper School
Academy converter
- 687 m
Harlington Lower School
Academy converter
- 1.9 km
Westoning Lower School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 113
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 41
- Anti social behaviour 25
- Vehicle crime 20
- Burglary 7
- Criminal damage and arson 5
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LU5 6 residents
- 8,707
Age bands in LU5 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.7%
1,618 residents
887 residents
2,255 residents
2,438 residents
1,653 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
TODDINGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
LUTON ROAD, TODDINGTON, DUNSTABLE, LU5 6DE
ODS code E81034
4.0 km
DR A SULAKSHANA & PARTNERS
HEXTON ROAD, BARTON-LE-CLAY, BEDFORD, MK45 4TA
ODS code E81046
4.0 km
FLITWICK SURGERY
HIGHLANDS, FLITWICK, BEDFORD, MK45 1DW
ODS code E81015
4.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Goswell End Road
BCT · Harlington
- 0.1 miles
Goswell End Road
BCT · Harlington
- 0.2 miles
Harlington Upper School
BCT · Harlington
- 0.2 miles
Harlington Upper School
BCT · Harlington
- 0.2 miles
Post Office
BCT · Harlington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Central Bedfordshire 017B, 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
29,391 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
113 published events cover 12 months, averaging 9.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 41 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.