Luton
Luton is covered by postcode districts LU1, LU2, LU3, LU4 and LU5. It is mostly in the Luton council area: 3,225 of its 3,363 postcodes. The others are in Central Bedfordshire and North Hertfordshire. 5 of its 3,363 postcodes are in Hertfordshire. ONS lists no county for the other 3,358.
Every postcode in Luton, and which are new since 2020
- New since 2020: 126
- In use before 2020: 3,237
- Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together
Of the 3,363 postcodes in Luton that ONS places, 126 are new since 2020 and 3,237 were in use before 2020.
Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. New since 2020 means it came into use in January 2020 or later. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 51.8939, longitude -0.4331. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; when each came into use: the same directory; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them
The 5 newest postcodes
Where the new postcodes lie together
- 38 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. LU3 9JF, is the newest of them.
- 10 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. LU1 4GE, is the newest of them.
- 9 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. LU1 1FY, is the newest of them.
- 8 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. LU4 8FR, is the newest of them.
- 6 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. LU2 0GT, is the newest of them.
- 6 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. LU2 7HQ, is the newest of them.
What is it like to live in Luton?
Homes sold for a typical £320,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 1.6% on the 12 months before. At 2,969 of the 3,259 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 437 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 129 of its 3,363 postcodes. It has at least 8 primary schools and 4 secondary schools at its postcodes. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Luton, 1.8 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources
What do homes cost in Luton?
Homes in Luton sold for a typical £320,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 1,481 sales, up 1.6% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached £435,000 229 sales
- Semi-detached £340,000 671 sales
- Terraced £280,000 384 sales
- Flat or maisonette £163,000 197 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole LU2 district, Luton's main postcode district: a typical £330,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Luton: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Are new homes being built in Luton?
126 of the 3,363 postcodes now in use in Luton came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 18 of the 1,874 homes sold in Luton were newly built (Under 1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the LU2 district, 3%.
The newest postcodes
A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.
New homes among the homes sold
| Period | In Luton | Across the LU2 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to August 2026 | 5 of 1,481 (Under 1%) | 0 of 538 (0%) |
| The 12 months to August 2025 | 18 of 1,874 (Under 1%) | 17 of 662 (3%) |
Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
What broadband can you get in Luton?
Ofcom reports on 3,259 of the 3,363 postcodes in Luton. At 2,969 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).
Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Luton at risk of flooding?
129 of the 3,363 postcodes in Luton have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 437 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.
High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.
Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.
Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Which schools are in Luton?
The open schools at the postcodes in Luton (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.
Primary
- Denbigh Primary School100 m 610 pupils, 630 places
- Maidenhall Primary School550 m 628 pupils, 840 places
- River Bank Primary School600 m 793 pupils, 840 places
- Mehria Primary School650 m 110 pupils, 120 places
- Beech Hill Community Primary School800 m 888 pupils, 940 places
- William Austin Infant School850 m 313 pupils, 360 places
- William Austin Junior School900 m 498 pupils, 600 places
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School1.2 km
Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it
How far is the station from Luton?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Luton is Luton Rail Station, 1.8 km away in a straight line.
- Luton Rail Station Railway station 1.8 kmCycle
- Leagrave Rail Station Railway station 2.1 kmCycle
- Luton Airport Parkway Rail Station Railway station 3.5 kmCycle
Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.
Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.
Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Which GP surgeries are in Luton?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Luton, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Woodland Avenue Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report June 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01582 572239 250 mWalk
- The Blenheim Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Requires improvement CQC report September 2021, over 3 years old · Phone 01582 404012 400 mWalk
- Conway Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report October 2019, over 3 years old · Phone 01582 429953 750 mWalk
- Kingsway & Bramingham Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report September 2019, over 3 years old · Phone 01582 847808 750 mWalk
- Malzeard Road Practice Phone 01582 481700 850 mWalk
Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Luton safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 5,449 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Luton over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.
Each month, September 2025 to August 2026
- 426 September 2025
- 419 October 2025
- 492 November 2025
- 426 December 2025
- 456 January 2026
- 426 February 2026
- 445 March 2026
- 457 April 2026
- 490 May 2026
- 417 June 2026
- 486 July 2026
- 509 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: burglary 137, other crime 127, possession of weapons 97, robbery 85, theft from the person 41, bicycle theft 28.
Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.
Crime around one postcodeSource: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Who runs Luton?
- Councils
- Luton (3,225), Central Bedfordshire (133) and North Hertfordshire (5)
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Luton South and South Bedfordshire (1,710), Luton North (1,518), Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard (111) and 2 others
- Police force areas
- Bedfordshire (3,358) and Hertfordshire (5)
- Region
- East of England
- Country
- England
Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources
Moving to Luton
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of Luton is in Luton; near its edge, check which council a postcode is in.
- Tell Luton about council tax Council tax, on luton.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Luton
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Check your bin day on BinDayBuddy, which reads the council's own collection system
Luton postcodes
3,363 postcodes in use in Luton, by district:
Those districts are all in the LU postcode area.
Check a Luton postcode
Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.
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Places near Luton
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Luton's £320,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Questions about Luton
- What is it like to live in Luton?
- Homes sold for a typical £320,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 1.6% on the 12 months before. At 2,969 of the 3,259 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 437 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 129 of its 3,363 postcodes. It has at least 8 primary schools and 4 secondary schools at its postcodes. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Luton, 1.8 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
- What is the postcode for Luton?
- Luton is covered by postcode districts LU1, LU2, LU3, LU4 and LU5, across 3,363 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- How much are houses in Luton?
- Homes in Luton sold for a typical £320,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 1,481 sales, up 1.6% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
- What schools are in Luton?
- In Luton, primary schools at its postcodes include Denbigh Primary School, Maidenhall Primary School and River Bank Primary School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Active Support Education Centre, Jamiatul Uloom Al - Islamia and Denbigh High School. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
- Does Luton have a railway station?
- The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Luton is Luton, 1.8 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
- What broadband can you get in Luton?
- Ofcom reports on 3,259 of the 3,363 postcodes in Luton. At 2,969 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s). Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
- Is Luton at risk of flooding?
- 129 of the 3,363 postcodes in Luton have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 437 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Luton?
- 126 of the 3,363 postcodes now in use in Luton came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 18 of the 1,874 homes sold in Luton were newly built (Under 1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the LU2 district, 3%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
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