Schools
45 open schools are in scope, including 28 primary and 7 secondary schools. Queensbury Academy is the nearest published school at 1 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LU6 3BU
Dunstable West · Central Bedfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Dunstable West
- Local authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard
- Postcode district
- LU6
- Postcode sector
- LU6 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LU6 3BU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LU
- Postcode district
- LU6
- Postcode sector
- LU6 3
- Latitude
- 51.878239
- Longitude
- -0.528217
- British National Grid easting
- 501,408
- British National Grid northing
- 220,986
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Central Bedfordshire · E06000056
- Electoral ward
- Dunstable West · E05014407
- Parish or community
- E04012806
- Westminster constituency
- Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard · E14001206
- Output area
- E00088673
- Lower layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 029A · E01017565
- 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 LU6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 45
- Primary
- 28
- Secondary
- 7
- 1 m
Queensbury Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 365 m
Lark Rise Academy
Academy converter
- 669 m
Dunstable Icknield Lower School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,003
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 652
- Anti social behaviour 282
- Vehicle crime 187
- Shoplifting 170
- Other theft 142
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LU6 3 residents
- 12,304
Age bands in LU6 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.6%
2,061 residents
1,236 residents
3,338 residents
3,503 residents
2,628 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.
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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
11
within 5 km
KIRBY ROAD SURGERY
58 KIRBY ROAD, DUNSTABLE, LU6 3JH
ODS code E81052
567 m
WEST STREET SURGERY
89 WEST STREET, DUNSTABLE, LU6 1SF
ODS code E81009
732 m
EASTGATE SURGERY
EASTGATE HOUSE, 28-34 CHURCH STREET, DUNSTABLE, LU5 4RU
ODS code E81635
1.0 km
KINGSBURY COURT SURGERY
CHURCH STREET, DUNSTABLE, LU5 4RS
ODS code E81045
1.2 km
PRIORY GARDENS SURGERY
GROVE VIEW INTEGRATED, COURT DRIVE, DUNSTABLE, LU5 4JD
ODS code E81014
1.6 km
HOUGHTON REGIS MEDICAL CENTRE
PEEL STREET, HOUGHTON REGIS, DUNSTABLE, LU5 5EZ
ODS code E81027
3.1 km
WHEATFIELD SURGERY
60 WHEATFIELD ROAD, LEWSEY FARM, LUTON, LU4 0SY
ODS code E81008
3.5 km
DR DV SHAH'S PRACTICE
PASTURES WAY, LEWSEY FARM, LUTON, LU4 0PF
ODS code E81076
3.8 km
EDLESBOROUGH SURGERY
11 COW LANE, EDLESBOROUGH, DUNSTABLE, LU6 2HT
ODS code K82079
4.3 km
THE OAKLEY SURGERY
ADDINGTON WAY, LUTON, LU4 9FJ
ODS code E81025
4.9 km
DRS MIRZA SUKHANI & PARTNERS
THE SURGERY, 30 THE GREEN, HOCKWELL RING, LUTON, LU4 9NN
ODS code E81612
4.9 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Meadway
BCT · Dunstable
- 0.1 miles
Meadway
BCT · Dunstable
- 0.1 miles
Windermere Close
BCT · Dunstable
- 0.2 miles
Windermere Close
BCT · Dunstable
- 0.2 miles
Cemetery Lane
BCT · Dunstable
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Central Bedfordshire 029A, 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
29,952 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
- 0
- 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
2,003 published events cover 12 months, averaging 166.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 652 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.