Schools
21 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 6 secondary schools. St Leonards CE Academy is the nearest published school at 496 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LU7 0YP
Heath & Reach · Central Bedfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Heath & Reach
- Local authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard
- Postcode district
- LU7
- Postcode sector
- LU7 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LU7 0YP
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 1992
- Terminated
- 1 December 1996
- Postcode area
- LU
- Postcode district
- LU7
- Postcode sector
- LU7 0
- Latitude
- 51.941965
- Longitude
- -0.658640
- British National Grid easting
- 492,300
- British National Grid northing
- 227,900
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Central Bedfordshire · E06000056
- Electoral ward
- Heath & Reach · E05014410
- Parish or community
- E04011955
- Westminster constituency
- Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard · E14001206
- Output area
- E00088723
- Lower layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 019A · E01017577
- Middle layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 019 · E02003637
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 LU7
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 21
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 6
- 496 m
St Leonards CE Academy
Academy converter
- 636 m
Oak Bank School
Academy special converter
- 797 m
Heathwood Lower School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 181
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 52
- Shoplifting 29
- Vehicle crime 22
- Criminal damage and arson 18
- Anti social behaviour 15
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LU7 0 residents
- 9,780
Age bands in LU7 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.1%
1,582 residents
989 residents
2,078 residents
3,112 residents
2,326 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
DR JL HENDERSON & PARTNERS
29 BASSETT ROAD, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, LU7 1AR
ODS code E81003
2.6 km
SALISBURY HOUSE SURGERY
LAKE STREET, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, LU7 1RS
ODS code E81004
2.9 km
LEIGHTON ROAD SURGERY
1 LEIGHTON ROAD, LINSLADE, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, LU7 1LB
ODS code E81044
3.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
The Stile
BCT · Heath and Reach
- 0.1 miles
The Stile
BCT · Heath and Reach
- 0.2 miles
Heath Green
BCT · Heath and Reach
- 0.2 miles
Heath Green
BCT · Heath and Reach
- 0.2 miles
Emu Close
BCT · Heath and Reach
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Central Bedfordshire 019A, 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
19,566 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
181 published events cover 12 months, averaging 15.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 52 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.