Beech Road Luton

82 addresses across 3 postcodes (LU1,LU4), about 210 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 24000110.

Sales: 132 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £220,000 across 1 sale.
Energy: 63 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4, D: 41, E: 16, F: 1, G: 1).
Flood: 11 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Luton costs £2,440 a year in 2026-27.
Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
Transport: The nearest railway station is Luton, about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
Green space: There is a small park or garden about 360 m away, and Ferndale Leisure Gardens (27 hectares) is about 570 m (0.4 miles) away.
Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 14.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
Height: Its addresses are 109 to 114 m above sea level.
Noise: 11 of its 82 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Bell House Medical Centre, about 240 m away, with 11 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
People: About 650 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 41% of households owned their home and 23% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Crime: 236 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
Year	Sales	Median price	Lowest	Highest
2026	1	£220,000	£220,000	£220,000
2025	1	£235,000	£235,000	£235,000
2023	2	£230,000	£220,000	£240,000
2022	1	£210,000	£210,000	£210,000
2021	1	£180,000	£180,000	£180,000
2020	1	£205,000	£205,000	£205,000
2019	1	£200,000	£200,000	£200,000
2018	1	£150,500	£150,500	£150,500
2017	1	£157,000	£157,000	£157,000
2015	7	£130,000	£109,000	£147,000
2014	4	£120,000	£100,000	£123,000
2013	2	£88,150	£64,300	£112,000

Most recent sales (latest 50 of 132)
Date	Address	Type	Price	Notes
10 Jul 2026	77 LU1 1DW	Terraced	£220,000
31 Jul 2025	5 LU1 1DW	Terraced	£235,000
22 May 2023	53 LU1 1DW	Terraced	£220,000
17 Apr 2023	36 LU1 1DP	Semi-detached	£240,000
25 Nov 2022	68 LU1 1DP	Terraced	£160,000	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Jul 2022	64 LU1 1DP	Terraced	£210,000
24 May 2021	76 LU1 1DP	Terraced	£130,000	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Feb 2021	52 LU1 1DP	Terraced	£180,000
30 Nov 2020	58 LU1 1DP	Terraced	£205,000
27 Jul 2020	75 LU1 1DW	Terraced	£206,000	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
6 Mar 2020	74 LU1 1DP	Terraced	£145,000	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 Feb 2019	13 LU1 1DW	Terraced	£185,000	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Jan 2019	27 LU1 1DW	Terraced	£200,000
30 Nov 2018	58 LU1 1DP	Terraced	£150,500
7 Jul 2017	56 LU1 1DP	Terraced	£182,000	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
16 Jun 2017	28 LU1 1DP	Terraced	£140,000	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
2 May 2017	45 LU1 1DW	Terraced	£157,000
14 Oct 2015	42 LU1 1DP	Terraced	£130,000
7 Oct 2015	5 LU1 1DW	Terraced	£147,000
29 Jul 2015	61 LU1 1DW	Terraced	£110,000
19 Jun 2015	46 LU1 1DP	Terraced	£137,500
2 Apr 2015	15 LU1 1DW	Terraced	£130,000
20 Mar 2015	34 LU1 1DP	Terraced	£109,000
6 Mar 2015	28 LU1 1DP	Terraced	£123,000
28 Nov 2014	52 LU1 1DP	Terraced	£100,000
5 Jun 2014	80 LU1 1DP	Terraced	£110,000	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
2 May 2014	47 LU1 1DW	Terraced	£117,000
28 Feb 2014	43 LU1 1DW	Terraced	£123,000
16 Jan 2014	76 LU1 1DP	Terraced	£123,000
3 Oct 2013	74 LU1 1DP	Terraced	£112,000
25 Jan 2013	66 LU1 1DP	Terraced	£64,300
30 Aug 2012	75 LU1 1DW	Terraced	£170,000
6 Jun 2012	34 LU1 1DP	Terraced	£140,000
1 Jul 2011	76 LU1 1DP	Terraced	£110,000
11 Feb 2011	66 LU1 1DP	Terraced	£85,000
19 Feb 2010	27 LU1 1DW	Terraced	£109,000
2 Nov 2009	27 LU1 1DW	Terraced	£83,000
24 Sep 2009	30 LU1 1DP	Terraced	£96,000
2 Jul 2008	1 LU1 1DW	Terraced	£145,000
13 Dec 2007	43 LU1 1DW	Terraced	£157,000
12 Sep 2007	14 LU1 1DP	Semi-detached	£162,000
18 May 2007	13 LU1 1DW	Terraced	£145,000
15 Mar 2007	17 LU1 1DW	Terraced	£130,000
18 Dec 2006	27 LU1 1DW	Terraced	£145,000
20 Nov 2006	3 LU1 1DW	Semi-detached	£119,000
10 Nov 2006	36 LU1 1DP	Semi-detached	£130,000
18 Sep 2006	13 LU1 1DW	Terraced	£123,000
19 Jun 2006	3 LU1 1DW	Semi-detached	£120,000
12 Jun 2006	20 LU1 1DP	Terraced	£119,000
8 May 2006	54 LU1 1DP	Terraced	£110,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from August 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

D41

E16

63 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 77 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (61); House, end-terrace (2). Built: 1900-1929 (49); before 1900 (13); 1930-1949 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (31); rented (private) (25); rented (social) (3).

Council tax

What each band costs in Luton in 2026-27: Band D £2,440 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
£1,627	£1,898	£2,169	£2,440	£2,982	£3,524	£4,067	£4,880

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (48% of about 1,070 homes).

A48%

B41%

E0%

F0%

G0%

H0%

C9%

D2%

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): Luton Town Centre and Surrounds (2023).
Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

179 - 185 Dunstable Road, Luton LU1 1BT: up to 13 homes, not permissioned (130 m)
176-180A Dunstable Road: up to 6 homes, not permissioned (140 m)
Luton Town Football Club, Kenilworth Road, Luton LU1 1DH: up to 65 homes, not permissioned (160 m)
Car park adjacent to 95 Maple Road East, Luton LU1 1SP: up to 54 homes, not permissioned (320 m)
Former Travis Perkins Site, Dallow Road, Luton LU1 1SR: up to 186 homes, permissioned (340 m)
Guardian Industrial Estate, permissioned (360 m)
13-31 Dunstable Road, Luton LU1 1BG: up to 291 homes, pending decision (590 m (0.4 miles))
27 Crawley Road, Luton LU1 7HX: up to 12 homes, not permissioned (620 m (0.4 miles))

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 10 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 5 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Postcode	Planning zone	Addresses at high / medium / low risk	Groundwater
LU1 1DP	not in 2 or 3	0 / 0 / 1	unlikely
LU1 1DW	not in 2 or 3	1 / 1 / 1	unlikely
LU4 8BN	not in 2 or 3	9 / 0 / 3	unlikely

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 82 addresses are between 109 m and 114 m above sea level (111 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
Postcode	Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)	Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)	Gigabit	Below 10 Mbit/s
LU1 1DP	100%	100%	100%	0%
LU1 1DW	100%	100%	100%	0%
LU4 8BN	100%	100%	100%	0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

	Nearest	Distance
Railway stations	Luton 3.7 million journeys in 2024–25	1.2 km (0.7 miles)
	Luton Airport Parkway 4.7 million journeys in 2024–25	2.8 km (1.7 miles)
	Leagrave 1.5 million journeys in 2024–25	2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Bus stops	11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 41 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Birch Link Bury Park	90 m
Bus or coach station	Luton Station Interchange Luton Town Centre	1 km (0.6 miles)
Car parks	1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Guru Nanak-Luton Car Park	610 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points	10 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station	820 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flights	London Luton Airport LTN	4.4 km (2.8 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

	Nearest	Distance
GP surgeries	11 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bell House Medical Centre	240 m
Pharmacies	21 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Westbourne Pharmacy	170 m
NHS dentists	9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dunstable Road (Dental Surgery)	150 m
Hospital	Luton And Dunstable University Hospital	3.2 km (2 miles)
Police station	Luton Police Station	1 km (0.6 miles)
Cash machines	2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sandhu Supermarket Ltd Cashzone	430 m (0.3 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

	Nearest	Distance
Park or garden	6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 450 m²	360 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)	Ferndale Leisure Gardens 27 ha	570 m (0.4 miles)
Play area	2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cohens Yard Play Area 3,200 m²	500 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field	Kingsway Park 3.0 ha	1 km (0.6 miles)
Allotments	1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,830 m²	720 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 6 parks and gardens, 45 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Wardown Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-east. 6 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Wardown Park	Registered park or garden, Grade II	1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-east
The Improvement Garden	Registered park or garden, Grade II*	2.3 km (1.4 miles) south

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Wardown Lake	Lake or reservoir	1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Blossom Spring	Wood	1.7 km (1 mile) south-west
Round Wood	Wood	2 km (1.2 miles) south-west
Badgerdell Wood	Wood	2.1 km (1.3 miles) south-west
Farley Pond	Lake or reservoir	2.2 km (1.4 miles) south
Warden Hill	Hill	4.3 km (2.6 miles) north

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
Pollutant	Here	UK limit	WHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)	14.1	40	10
Fine particles (PM2.5)	7.8	20	5
Particles (PM10)	13.1	40	15

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road, rail and aircraft noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
Level	Road traffic	Railways	Aircraft
70 to 74	1	0	0
55 to 59	10	0	0
Under 55	71	82	82

11 of the street's 82 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Luton: see them on the Luton page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

School	Phase	Ages	Distance	Inspection
Beech Hill Community Primary School	Primary	3–11	210 m	Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Dallow Primary School	Primary	4–11	440 m (0.3 miles)	No published inspection
Denbigh High School	Secondary	11–16	760 m (0.5 miles)	Outstanding (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Maidenhall Primary School	Primary	4–11	940 m (0.6 miles)	Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Denbigh Primary School	Primary	4–11	1 km (0.6 miles)	No published inspection
Rothesay Nursery School	Nursery	2–5	1 km (0.6 miles)	Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
River Bank Primary School	Primary	4–11	1.1 km (0.7 miles)	Good (Oct 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Foxdell Primary School	Primary	4–11	1.1 km (0.7 miles)	No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Whipperley Infant Academy	Primary	4–7	1.2 km (0.7 miles)	No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
St Matthew's Primary School	Primary	4–11	1.4 km (0.8 miles)	Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Farley Junior Academy	Primary	7–11	1.4 km (0.9 miles)	Outstanding (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Chapel Street Nursery School	Nursery	2–4	1.4 km (0.9 miles)	No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

Business	Type	Distance	Rating	Rated
Kashmir Stores LU1 1DW	Retailers - other	30 m	5 Very good	28 Jul 2026
The Cake Family LU4 8AD	Other catering premises	80 m	3 Generally satisfactory	4 Aug 2026
Leo Cubs Nursery Ltd LU4 8BN	Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises	80 m	5 Very good	30 Sep 2021
New Ambala LU4 8BN	Takeaway/sandwich shop	80 m	3 Generally satisfactory	16 Oct 2025
Tastee Treats LU4 8BN	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	80 m	3 Generally satisfactory	9 Jun 2026
Cake Box LU4 8BN	Retailers - other	80 m	5 Very good	12 Jul 2026
Srilankan Tamil Shop LU4 8BN	Retailers - other	80 m	3 Generally satisfactory	15 Jul 2026
AV Tasty Land Ltd LU4 8BN	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	80 m	Awaiting inspection
Hot Food @ 3.99 kitchen LU4 8BN	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	80 m	2 Improvement necessary	18 Nov 2025
Haji & Sons LU1 1DD	Retailers - other	90 m	1 Major improvement necessary	9 Jun 2026
Haji Foods LU1 1DD	Retailers - other	90 m	4 Good	12 Jan 2026
shahi nan.com LU1 1DD	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	90 m	4 Good	30 Oct 2025
Ambala Foods Ltd LU1 1DD	Takeaway/sandwich shop	90 m	5 Very good	14 Sep 2026
Medina Cash and Carry LU1 1DD	Retailers - other	90 m	4 Good	28 Oct 2025
Hatters Fish & Chips LU4 8BN	Other catering premises	90 m	5 Very good	2 Feb 2026

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

236 recorded crimes by category
Category	Crimes
Violence and sexual offences	101
Public order	27
Anti-social behaviour	27
Vehicle crime	14
Other theft	12
Criminal damage and arson	12
Robbery	8
Drugs	7
Possession of weapons	7
Other crime	7
Burglary	6
Shoplifting	5
Bicycle theft	2
Theft from the person	1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parking Area (70); On or near Shopping Area (40); On or near Beech Road (38); On or near Birch Link (28); On or near Ash Road (15).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 650 residents in 157 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

	Around this street	England
Median age	27	40
Children under 15	28%	17%
Aged 65 and over	5%	18%

Homes

	Around this street	England
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)	41%	61%
Owned outright	19%	33%
Shared ownership	0%	1%
Social rented	19%	17%
Private rented	40%	21%

Work and commuting

	Around this street	England
Adults (16 and over) in work	46%	57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)	12%	6%
Retired (of adults)	4%	22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)	4%	4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)	10%	32%
Travel to work by car or van	51%	48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram	1%	4%
By any public transport, including bus	20%	8%
On foot or by bicycle	12%	10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)	69%	65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away	9%	8%

Education and languages

	Around this street	England
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)	23%	34%
No qualifications	29%	18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification	1%	5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)	64%	91%
Cannot speak English well or at all	17%	2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 1 to 2 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Energy certificates New energy certificate: band C, house, end-terrace (lodged 22 October 2026) found 2 November 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

LU1 1DP: 41 addresses
LU1 1DW: 40 addresses of 41 in the postcode
LU4 8BN: 1 address of 33 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Ivy Road · Oak Road · Ash Road · Kenilworth Road · Dunstable Road · Bury Park Road · Wimborne Road · Clifton Road · Warwick Road East · Highbury Road · Avondale Road · Hazelbury Crescent

All the streets in LU1, LU4 and across Luton.

What this page cannot tell you

Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.