Schools
22 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 7 secondary schools. Linslade Lower School is the nearest published school at 714 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LU7 2LQ
Leighton-Linslade West · Central Bedfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Leighton Buzzard
- Local authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard
- Postcode district
- LU7
- Postcode sector
- LU7 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LU7 2LQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 February 2005
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LU
- Postcode district
- LU7
- Postcode sector
- LU7 2
- Latitude
- 51.912768
- Longitude
- -0.684734
- British National Grid easting
- 490,565
- British National Grid northing
- 224,620
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Central Bedfordshire · E06000056
- Electoral ward
- Leighton-Linslade West · E05014416
- Parish or community
- E04011965
- Westminster constituency
- Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard · E14001206
- Output area
- E00088889
- Lower layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 023D · E01017614
- Middle layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 023 · E02003641
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
Property
8 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Southcott Barns, The Great Oak Barn, Southcott Village, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 2LQ | 29 June 2021 | £885,000 |
| Southcott Barns, The Coach House, Southcott Village, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 2LQ | 1 April 2016 | £595,000 |
| Southcott Barns, The Old Stables, Southcott Village, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 2LQ | 10 December 2015 | £720,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 22
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 7
- 714 m
Linslade Lower School
Community school
- 769 m
Linslade School
Academy converter
- 864 m
Southcott Lower School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 795
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 257
- Shoplifting 131
- Anti social behaviour 108
- Criminal damage and arson 78
- Public order 49
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 9
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- LU7 2 residents
- 11,343
2 female, 7 male
Age bands in LU7 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.9%
1,896 residents
964 residents
2,999 residents
3,051 residents
2,492 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LU7 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+
- 80%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 80%
- Gigabit-capable
- 80%
- 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
5
within 5 km
LEIGHTON ROAD SURGERY
1 LEIGHTON ROAD, LINSLADE, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, LU7 1LB
ODS code E81044
1.2 km
DR JL HENDERSON & PARTNERS
29 BASSETT ROAD, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, LU7 1AR
ODS code E81003
1.5 km
SALISBURY HOUSE SURGERY
LAKE STREET, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, LU7 1RS
ODS code E81004
1.7 km
3W HEALTH
WING SURGERY, 46 STEWKLEY ROAD, WING, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, LU7 0NE
ODS code K82070
2.7 km
ASHCROFT SURGERY
STEWKLEY ROAD, WING, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, LU7 0NE
ODS code K82061
2.7 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
- 0.1 miles
Chelsea Green
BCT · Linslade
- 0.1 miles
Chelsea Green
BCT · Linslade
- 0.1 miles
Southcott Village
BCT · Linslade
- 0.1 miles
Southcott Village
BCT · Linslade
- 0.1 miles
Village Court
BCT · Linslade
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Central Bedfordshire 023D, 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
28,507 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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.
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
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- 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
795 published events cover 12 months, averaging 66.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 257 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.