Schools
23 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 7 secondary schools. Leighton Middle School is the nearest published school at 156 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LU7 7AW
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 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LU7 7AW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 January 2001
- Postcode area
- LU
- Postcode district
- LU7
- Postcode sector
- LU7 7
- Latitude
- 51.916895
- Longitude
- -0.666365
- British National Grid easting
- 491,820
- British National Grid northing
- 225,102
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
- E00177081
- Lower layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 021C · E01017557
- 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
- 156 m
Leighton Middle School
Community school
- 169 m
The Mary Bassett Lower School
Community school
- 371 m
Pulford CofE VA Lower School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,959
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 629
- Shoplifting 265
- Anti social behaviour 259
- Criminal damage and arson 188
- Public order 137
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- Postcode sector residents
- Not available
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 not available.
GP practices
5
within 5 km
LEIGHTON ROAD SURGERY
1 LEIGHTON ROAD, LINSLADE, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, LU7 1LB
ODS code E81044
172 m
DR JL HENDERSON & PARTNERS
29 BASSETT ROAD, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, LU7 1AR
ODS code E81003
216 m
SALISBURY HOUSE SURGERY
LAKE STREET, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, LU7 1RS
ODS code E81004
429 m
3W HEALTH
WING SURGERY, 46 STEWKLEY ROAD, WING, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, LU7 0NE
ODS code K82070
4.0 km
ASHCROFT SURGERY
STEWKLEY ROAD, WING, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, LU7 0NE
ODS code K82061
4.0 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
Bridge Street
BCT · Leighton Buzzard
- 0.1 miles
West Street
BCT · Leighton Buzzard
- 0.1 miles
Leighton Middle School
BCT · Leighton Buzzard
- 0.1 miles
High Street
BCT · Leighton Buzzard
- 0.1 miles
Tesco
BCT · Leighton Buzzard
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Central Bedfordshire 021C, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
15,512 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
1,959 published events cover 12 months, averaging 163.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 629 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.