Schools
23 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 6 secondary schools. Vandyke Upper School is the nearest published school at 472 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LU7 3ST
Leighton-Linslade North · 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 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LU7 3ST
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LU
- Postcode district
- LU7
- Postcode sector
- LU7 3
- Latitude
- 51.930193
- Longitude
- -0.649725
- British National Grid easting
- 492,937
- British National Grid northing
- 226,602
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Central Bedfordshire · E06000056
- Electoral ward
- Leighton-Linslade North · E05014414
- Parish or community
- E04011965
- Westminster constituency
- Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard · E14001206
- Output area
- E00088886
- Lower layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 020D · E01017606
- Middle layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 020 · E02003638
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
- 15
- Secondary
- 6
- 472 m
Vandyke Upper School
Academy converter
- 506 m
Gilbert Inglefield Academy
Academy converter
- 708 m
Heathwood Lower School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 934
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 355
- Anti social behaviour 122
- Vehicle crime 109
- Criminal damage and arson 85
- Public order 71
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LU7 3 residents
- 15,363
Age bands in LU7 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.6%
2,736 residents
1,296 residents
3,962 residents
3,839 residents
2,882 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
DR JL HENDERSON & PARTNERS
29 BASSETT ROAD, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, LU7 1AR
ODS code E81003
1.7 km
SALISBURY HOUSE SURGERY
LAKE STREET, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, LU7 1RS
ODS code E81004
1.7 km
LEIGHTON ROAD SURGERY
1 LEIGHTON ROAD, LINSLADE, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, LU7 1LB
ODS code E81044
2.0 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
Jakeman Edge
BCT · Leighton Buzzard
- 0.1 miles
Jakeman Edge
BCT · Leighton Buzzard
- 0.3 miles
Vandyke Upper School
BCT · Leighton Buzzard
- 0.3 miles
Nelson Road
BCT · Leighton Buzzard
- 0.3 miles
Oakley Green
BCT · Leighton Buzzard
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Central Bedfordshire 020D, 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
31,470 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
934 published events cover 12 months, averaging 77.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 355 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.