Schools
23 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 5 secondary schools. Stanbridge Lower School is the nearest published school at 867 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LU7 9PS
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 9PS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 February 2012
- Postcode area
- LU
- Postcode district
- LU7
- Postcode sector
- LU7 9
- Latitude
- 51.908101
- Longitude
- -0.582483
- British National Grid easting
- 497,608
- British National Grid northing
- 224,233
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
- E04011994
- Westminster constituency
- Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard · E14001206
- Output area
- E00088914
- 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
- 23
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 5
- 867 m
Stanbridge Lower School
Community school
- 2.8 km
Hockliffe Lower School
Academy converter
- 3.4 km
Eaton Bray Academy
Academy converter
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 20
- Anti social behaviour 15
- Criminal damage and arson 6
- Other theft 4
- Other 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
6
within 5 km straight-line
HOUGHTON REGIS MEDICAL CENTRE
PEEL STREET, HOUGHTON REGIS, DUNSTABLE, LU5 5EZ
ODS code E81027
4.4 km
EDLESBOROUGH SURGERY
11 COW LANE, EDLESBOROUGH, DUNSTABLE, LU6 2HT
ODS code K82079
4.4 km
PRIORY GARDENS SURGERY
GROVE VIEW INTEGRATED, COURT DRIVE, DUNSTABLE, LU5 4JD
ODS code E81014
4.5 km
WEST STREET SURGERY
89 WEST STREET, DUNSTABLE, LU6 1SF
ODS code E81009
4.7 km
KIRBY ROAD SURGERY
58 KIRBY ROAD, DUNSTABLE, LU6 3JH
ODS code E81052
4.7 km
EASTGATE SURGERY
EASTGATE HOUSE, 28-34 CHURCH STREET, DUNSTABLE, LU5 4RU
ODS code E81635
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
All Saints' Church
BCT · Tilsworth
- 0.1 miles
Blackhill
BCT · Tilsworth
- 0.2 miles
Leighton United Football Club
BCT · Tilsworth
- 0.2 miles
Blackhill
BCT · Tilsworth
- 0.3 miles
Leighton United Football Club
BCT · Tilsworth
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 20 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.