Schools
22 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 6 secondary schools. Leedon Lower School is the nearest published school at 426 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LU7 8QZ
Leighton-Linslade South · 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 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LU7 8QZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 January 2001
- Postcode area
- LU
- Postcode district
- LU7
- Postcode sector
- LU7 8
- Latitude
- 51.910815
- Longitude
- -0.645712
- British National Grid easting
- 493,253
- British National Grid northing
- 224,452
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
- E00171398
- Lower layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 024I · E01033829
- 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
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 71b, Weston Avenue, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 8QZ | 25 August 2005 | £163,000 |
| 71b, Weston Avenue, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 8QZ | 31 July 2000 | £113,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 22
- Primary
- 14
- Secondary
- 6
- 426 m
Leedon Lower School
Community school
- 573 m
Brooklands Middle School
Academy converter
- 704 m
Clipstone Brook Lower School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,813
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 623
- Anti social behaviour 263
- Shoplifting 181
- Criminal damage and arson 165
- Public order 128
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 straight-line
SALISBURY HOUSE SURGERY
LAKE STREET, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, LU7 1RS
ODS code E81004
1.2 km
DR JL HENDERSON & PARTNERS
29 BASSETT ROAD, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, LU7 1AR
ODS code E81003
1.6 km
LEIGHTON ROAD SURGERY
1 LEIGHTON ROAD, LINSLADE, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, LU7 1LB
ODS code E81044
1.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Weston Avenue
BCT · Leighton Buzzard
- 0.1 miles
Richmond Road
BCT · Leighton Buzzard
- 0.1 miles
Richmond Road Garages
BCT · Leighton Buzzard
- 0.1 miles
Weston Avenue
BCT · Leighton Buzzard
- 0.1 miles
Newton Way
BCT · Leighton Buzzard
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Central Bedfordshire 024I, 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
20,875 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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
1,813 published events cover 12 months, averaging 151.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 623 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.