Schools
21 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 6 secondary schools. Oak Bank School is the nearest published school at 432 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LU7 8BH
Heath & Reach · Central Bedfordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Heath & Reach
- Local authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard
- Postcode district
- LU7
- Postcode sector
- LU7 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LU7 8BH
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 January 2001
- Postcode area
- LU
- Postcode district
- LU7
- Postcode sector
- LU7 8
- Latitude
- 51.936426
- Longitude
- -0.665685
- British National Grid easting
- 491,827
- British National Grid northing
- 227,275
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Central Bedfordshire · E06000056
- Electoral ward
- Heath & Reach · E05014410
- Parish or community
- E04011955
- Westminster constituency
- Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard · E14001206
- Output area
- E00088722
- Lower layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 019A · E01017577
- Middle layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 019 · E02003637
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
- 21
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 6
- 432 m
Oak Bank School
Academy special converter
- 577 m
Dovery Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 645 m
Heathwood Lower School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 383
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 145
- Vehicle crime 45
- Criminal damage and arson 41
- Anti social behaviour 32
- Shoplifting 31
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
3
within 5 km
DR JL HENDERSON & PARTNERS
29 BASSETT ROAD, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, LU7 1AR
ODS code E81003
2.0 km
SALISBURY HOUSE SURGERY
LAKE STREET, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, LU7 1RS
ODS code E81004
2.3 km
LEIGHTON ROAD SURGERY
1 LEIGHTON ROAD, LINSLADE, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, LU7 1LB
ODS code E81044
2.3 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
Heath Court
BCT · Leighton Buzzard
- 0.1 miles
Heath Court
BCT · Leighton Buzzard
- 0.3 miles
Taylor's Ride
BCT · Leighton Buzzard
- 0.3 miles
Taylor's Ride
BCT · Leighton Buzzard
- 0.4 miles
The Star
BCT · Leighton Buzzard
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Central Bedfordshire 019A, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,566 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
383 published events cover 12 months, averaging 31.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 145 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.