Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 1 secondary schools. Eaton Bray Academy is the nearest published school at 812 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LU6 2RX
Eaton Bray · Central Bedfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Eaton Bray
- 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 2RX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 February 1990
- Terminated
- 1 December 1990
- Postcode area
- LU
- Postcode district
- LU6
- Postcode sector
- LU6 2
- Latitude
- 51.876486
- Longitude
- -0.595216
- British National Grid easting
- 496,800
- British National Grid northing
- 220,700
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Central Bedfordshire · E06000056
- Electoral ward
- Eaton Bray · E05014408
- Parish or community
- E04011943
- Westminster constituency
- Luton South and South Bedfordshire · E14001346
- Output area
- E00088695
- Lower layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 032A · E01017571
- 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
- 12
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 1
- 812 m
Eaton Bray Academy
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- 1.4 km
Edlesborough Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 2.2 km
Totternhoe Church of England Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 144
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 62
- Anti social behaviour 22
- Criminal damage and arson 19
- Vehicle crime 10
- Burglary 9
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LU6 2 residents
- 8,668
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
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
EDLESBOROUGH SURGERY
11 COW LANE, EDLESBOROUGH, DUNSTABLE, LU6 2HT
ODS code K82079
991 m
KIRBY ROAD SURGERY
58 KIRBY ROAD, DUNSTABLE, LU6 3JH
ODS code E81052
4.8 km
WEST STREET SURGERY
89 WEST STREET, DUNSTABLE, LU6 1SF
ODS code E81009
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Northall Road
BCT · Eaton Bray
- 0.1 miles
Northall Road
BCT · Eaton Bray
- 0.2 miles
Park Lane
BCT · Eaton Bray
- 0.2 miles
Park Lane
BCT · Eaton Bray
- 0.2 miles
Wallace Drive
BCT · Eaton Bray
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Central Bedfordshire 032A, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
13,388 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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
144 published events cover 12 months, averaging 12 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 62 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.