Schools
23 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 7 secondary schools. Cedars Upper School is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LU7 4TF
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 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LU7 4TF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 2001
- Terminated
- 1 August 2019
- Postcode area
- LU
- Postcode district
- LU7
- Postcode sector
- LU7 4
- Latitude
- 51.902832
- Longitude
- -0.659979
- British National Grid easting
- 492,288
- British National Grid northing
- 223,546
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
- E00177062
- Lower layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 024H · E01033828
- Middle layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 024 · E02003643
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
- 1.1 km
Cedars Upper School
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
Linslade School
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
Pulford CofE VA Lower School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,099
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 408
- Anti social behaviour 145
- Shoplifting 117
- Criminal damage and arson 100
- Public order 72
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LU7 4 residents
- 9,944
Age bands in LU7 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 24.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 36%
- Age 45 to 64
- 21.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 8.4%
2,515 residents
949 residents
3,707 residents
2,255 residents
868 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
SALISBURY HOUSE SURGERY
LAKE STREET, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, LU7 1RS
ODS code E81004
1.5 km
LEIGHTON ROAD SURGERY
1 LEIGHTON ROAD, LINSLADE, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, LU7 1LB
ODS code E81044
1.5 km
DR JL HENDERSON & PARTNERS
29 BASSETT ROAD, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, LU7 1AR
ODS code E81003
1.8 km
3W HEALTH
WING SURGERY, 46 STEWKLEY ROAD, WING, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, LU7 0NE
ODS code K82070
3.9 km
ASHCROFT SURGERY
STEWKLEY ROAD, WING, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, LU7 0NE
ODS code K82061
3.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Vesta Grove
BCT · Leighton Buzzard
- 0.1 miles
Grovebury Road Bus Link
BCT · Leighton Buzzard
- 0.1 miles
Vesta Grove
BCT · Leighton Buzzard
- 0.2 miles
Grovebury Road Bus Link
BCT · Leighton Buzzard
- 0.3 miles
Eden Way
BCT · Leighton Buzzard
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Central Bedfordshire 024H, 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
30,317 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,099 published events cover 12 months, averaging 91.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 408 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.