Schools
22 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 7 secondary schools. Linslade Lower School is the nearest published school at 453 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LU7 7NR
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 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LU7 7NR
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 January 2001
- Postcode area
- LU
- Postcode district
- LU7
- Postcode sector
- LU7 7
- Latitude
- 51.914940
- Longitude
- -0.675540
- British National Grid easting
- 491,193
- British National Grid northing
- 224,873
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
- E00088793
- Lower layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 022A · E01017589
- Middle layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 022 · E02003640
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
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 7a, Waterloo Road, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 7NR | 1 July 1997 | £42,000 |
| 7a, Waterloo Road, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 7NR | 16 December 1996 | £34,000 |
| 7a, Waterloo Road, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 7NR | 28 March 1996 | £19,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 22
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 7
- 453 m
Linslade Lower School
Community school
- 690 m
Linslade School
Academy converter
- 722 m
Leighton Middle School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,610
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 500
- Shoplifting 261
- Anti social behaviour 209
- Criminal damage and arson 149
- Public order 118
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 straight-line
LEIGHTON ROAD SURGERY
1 LEIGHTON ROAD, LINSLADE, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, LU7 1LB
ODS code E81044
528 m
DR JL HENDERSON & PARTNERS
29 BASSETT ROAD, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, LU7 1AR
ODS code E81003
851 m
SALISBURY HOUSE SURGERY
LAKE STREET, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, LU7 1RS
ODS code E81004
1.1 km
3W HEALTH
WING SURGERY, 46 STEWKLEY ROAD, WING, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, LU7 0NE
ODS code K82070
3.4 km
ASHCROFT SURGERY
STEWKLEY ROAD, WING, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, LU7 0NE
ODS code K82061
3.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Victoria Road
BCT · Linslade
- 0.1 miles
Victoria Road
BCT · Linslade
- 0.1 miles
Leighton Buzzard Rail Station
TXR · Linslade
- 0.1 miles
Leighton Buzzard Rail Station
RSE · Leighton Buzzard
- 0.1 miles
Railway Station
BCT · Leighton Buzzard
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Central Bedfordshire 022A, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,656 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
1,610 published events cover 12 months, averaging 134.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 500 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.