Schools
23 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 7 secondary schools. Benjamin College is the nearest published school at 252 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LU7 1HF
Leighton-Linslade South · Central Bedfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard
- Postcode district
- LU7
- Postcode sector
- LU7 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LU7 1HF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2001
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LU
- Postcode district
- LU7
- Postcode sector
- LU7 1
- Latitude
- 51.916550
- Longitude
- -0.660487
- British National Grid easting
- 492,225
- British National Grid northing
- 225,071
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Central Bedfordshire · E06000056
- Electoral ward
- Leighton-Linslade South · E05014415
- Parish or community
- E04011965
- Westminster constituency
- Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard · E14001206
- Output area
- E00088616
- Lower layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 021A · E01017555
- Middle layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 021 · E02003639
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
- 23
- Primary
- 14
- Secondary
- 7
- 252 m
Benjamin College
Other independent special school
- 328 m
The Mary Bassett Lower School
Community school
- 332 m
Leighton Middle School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,285
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 778
- Anti social behaviour 297
- Shoplifting 293
- Criminal damage and arson 210
- Vehicle crime 162
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LU7 1 residents
- 5,177
Age bands in LU7 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.6%
937 residents
481 residents
1,732 residents
1,498 residents
1,136 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
5
within 5 km
SALISBURY HOUSE SURGERY
LAKE STREET, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, LU7 1RS
ODS code E81004
34 m
DR JL HENDERSON & PARTNERS
29 BASSETT ROAD, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, LU7 1AR
ODS code E81003
357 m
LEIGHTON ROAD SURGERY
1 LEIGHTON ROAD, LINSLADE, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, LU7 1LB
ODS code E81044
523 m
3W HEALTH
WING SURGERY, 46 STEWKLEY ROAD, WING, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, LU7 0NE
ODS code K82070
4.4 km
ASHCROFT SURGERY
STEWKLEY ROAD, WING, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, LU7 0NE
ODS code K82061
4.4 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
- 0.0 miles
Market Square
BCT · Leighton Buzzard
- 0.0 miles
Town Centre
TXR · Leighton Buzzard
- 0.0 miles
Library
BCT · Leighton Buzzard
- 0.1 miles
West Street
BCT · Leighton Buzzard
- 0.1 miles
Council Offices
BCT · Leighton Buzzard
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Central Bedfordshire 021A, 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
10,761 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
2,285 published events cover 12 months, averaging 190.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 778 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.