Schools
25 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 3 secondary schools. Lark Rise Academy is the nearest published school at 1.5 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LU6 2LP
Caddington · Central Bedfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Caddington
- Local authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Luton South and South Bedfordshire
- Postcode district
- LU6
- Postcode sector
- LU6 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LU6 2LP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LU
- Postcode district
- LU6
- Postcode sector
- LU6 2
- Latitude
- 51.854921
- Longitude
- -0.535162
- British National Grid easting
- 500,982
- British National Grid northing
- 218,383
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Central Bedfordshire · E06000056
- Electoral ward
- Caddington · E05014400
- Parish or community
- E04011999
- Westminster constituency
- Luton South and South Bedfordshire · E14001346
- Output area
- E00088783
- Lower layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 032D · E01017587
- Middle layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 032 · E02003650
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 LU6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 25
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 3
- 2.3 km
Lark Rise Academy
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- 2.6 km
Queensbury Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 2.7 km
Ardley Hill Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 64
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Anti social behaviour 22
- Violence and sexual offences 17
- Drugs 5
- Burglary 4
- Criminal damage and arson 4
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 64
- Postcode households
- 44
- Residents per household
- 1.5
- LU6 2 residents
- 8,668
34 female, 30 male
Age bands in LU6 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 28.2%
1,242 residents
663 residents
1,574 residents
2,614 residents
2,397 residents
This postcode contained 0.7% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LU6 2 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+
- 98%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 98%
- Gigabit-capable
- 98%
- 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
6
within 5 km
KIRBY ROAD SURGERY
58 KIRBY ROAD, DUNSTABLE, LU6 3JH
ODS code E81052
3.2 km
WEST STREET SURGERY
89 WEST STREET, DUNSTABLE, LU6 1SF
ODS code E81009
3.4 km
EASTGATE SURGERY
EASTGATE HOUSE, 28-34 CHURCH STREET, DUNSTABLE, LU5 4RU
ODS code E81635
3.6 km
KINGSBURY COURT SURGERY
CHURCH STREET, DUNSTABLE, LU5 4RS
ODS code E81045
3.7 km
EDLESBOROUGH SURGERY
11 COW LANE, EDLESBOROUGH, DUNSTABLE, LU6 2HT
ODS code K82079
4.0 km
PRIORY GARDENS SURGERY
GROVE VIEW INTEGRATED, COURT DRIVE, DUNSTABLE, LU5 4JD
ODS code E81014
4.2 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
Whipsnade Park Homes
BCT · Whipsnade
- 0.2 miles
Whipsnade Park Homes
BCT · Whipsnade
- 0.4 miles
Whipsnade Village Hall
BCT · Whipsnade
- 0.4 miles
Whipsnade Village Hall
BCT · Whipsnade
- 0.5 miles
Whipsnade Zoo
BCT · Whipsnade
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Central Bedfordshire 032D, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
23,640 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
- 3
- 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
64 published events cover 12 months, averaging 5.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 22 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.