Schools
21 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 4 secondary schools. Stanbridge Lower School is the nearest published school at 530 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LU7 9JR
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 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LU7 9JR
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1993
- Terminated
- 1 January 1995
- Postcode area
- LU
- Postcode district
- LU7
- Postcode sector
- LU7 9
- Latitude
- 51.904350
- Longitude
- -0.594347
- British National Grid easting
- 496,800
- British National Grid northing
- 223,800
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
- E04011985
- Westminster constituency
- Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard · E14001206
- Output area
- E00088913
- Lower layer super output area
- Central Bedfordshire 019G · E01033827
- 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
- 14
- Secondary
- 4
- 530 m
Stanbridge Lower School
Community school
- 3.1 km
Eaton Bray Academy
Academy converter
- 3.2 km
Hockliffe Lower School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 56
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 17
- Anti social behaviour 16
- Criminal damage and arson 8
- Public order 4
- Vehicle crime 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LU7 9 residents
- 9,808
Age bands in LU7 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.8%
1,738 residents
836 residents
2,367 residents
2,596 residents
1,747 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
2
within 5 km straight-line
EDLESBOROUGH SURGERY
11 COW LANE, EDLESBOROUGH, DUNSTABLE, LU6 2HT
ODS code K82079
4.0 km
SALISBURY HOUSE SURGERY
LAKE STREET, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, LU7 1RS
ODS code E81004
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Kings Way
BCT · Stanbridge
- 0.3 miles
The Green
BCT · Stanbridge
- 0.3 miles
Stanbridge Lower School
BCT · Stanbridge
- 0.3 miles
The Green
BCT · Stanbridge
- 0.3 miles
Stanbridge Lower School
BCT · Stanbridge
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Central Bedfordshire 019G, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
7,354 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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
56 published events cover 12 months, averaging 4.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 17 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.