Schools
22 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 7 secondary schools. Greenleas School is the nearest published school at 244 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LU7 2XR
Leighton-Linslade West · 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 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LU7 2XR
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 2002
- Terminated
- 1 May 2003
- Postcode area
- LU
- Postcode district
- LU7
- Postcode sector
- LU7 2
- Latitude
- 51.917270
- Longitude
- -0.692556
- British National Grid easting
- 490,018
- British National Grid northing
- 225,111
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
- E00088898
- Lower layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 023A · E01017611
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 22
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 7
- 244 m
Greenleas School
Community school
- 712 m
Southcott Lower School
Community school
- 914 m
Linslade Lower School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 390
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 151
- Anti social behaviour 60
- Criminal damage and arson 46
- Vehicle crime 28
- Other crime 24
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LU7 2 residents
- 11,343
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
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 straight-line
LEIGHTON ROAD SURGERY
1 LEIGHTON ROAD, LINSLADE, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, LU7 1LB
ODS code E81044
1.7 km
DR JL HENDERSON & PARTNERS
29 BASSETT ROAD, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, LU7 1AR
ODS code E81003
1.9 km
SALISBURY HOUSE SURGERY
LAKE STREET, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, LU7 1RS
ODS code E81004
2.2 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
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Lomond Drive
BCT · Linslade
- 0.1 miles
Coniston Road
BCT · Linslade
- 0.1 miles
Lomond Drive
BCT · Linslade
- 0.1 miles
Melfort Drive
BCT · Linslade
- 0.1 miles
Melfort Drive
BCT · Linslade
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Central Bedfordshire 023A, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
31,987 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
390 published events cover 12 months, averaging 32.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 151 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.