Leighton Buzzard South East · LU7

Central Bedfordshire

Price

£4,100/m²On map

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Resale £/m²
£4,000 (£373/sq ft) · 668 sales, 36 mo
Change
1 y +0.2% · 5 y +16.5%
Sales & turnover
223 of 5,720 recorded homes in 12 mo · 3.9%
Leasehold · new-build
18% · —
Rent, All homes
£1,250 / month · Central Bedfordshire average
Rent change
1 yr +3.7% · 5 yr +29.8% (East of England +3.5% · +31.0%)
East of England rank
Faster rise than 50% of local authorities in East of England

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Sold prices in LU7: Rightmove

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Sources

Price per square metre. Rolling 12-month median achieved price per square metre of standard market sales (Price Paid category A), using each home's EPC floor area.

HM Land Registry Price Paid + EPC · 2026-08

Areas with fewer than 20 qualifying sales in the 12 months fall back to their MSOA, then council.

Excludes repossessions, buy-to-let and company sales (category B) and 'other' property types.

Sales without an EPC floor area, under £20,000, or outside 15–1,000 m² or £500–£40,000/m² are excluded.

Land Registry registers sales with a lag of up to a few months, so the latest window is still filling.

Outside London, sales are placed in their postcode's area (ONSPD) and linked to EPC floor areas by address; before 2023 they show one value a year. London's figures come from its address-level build.

How this is worked out

Price sample: 218 matched sales support this number at MSOA level; 0 of 218 sales had no usable floor area and are excluded.

Compared with England: Not published: nationwide price coverage is incomplete.

Based on 218 sales · 2026-08 · release src-hmlr-pp-category-a-2026-08-england

Recent sales: standard sales from the last 18 months, nearest first.

ONS Price Index of Private Rents: Source: Office for National Statistics, Price Index of Private Rents. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Council-wide: every neighbourhood in a council reads the council's rents.

Average (mean) monthly rent of new and existing tenancies; change is from the ONS index, which adjusts for the mix of homes let.

Official statistics in development: ONS may revise recent months.

No City of London figures are published.

Getting around

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Sources

Walk to a station: the typical walk from the area's homes to the nearest rail, tube, DLR or tram station is timed along mapped OpenStreetMap paths at 4.8 km/h; each station row is a straight-line estimate stretched by a 1.3 routing detour, so it reads 'about'. Lifts, stairs, crossings and waiting are not timed. © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Powered by TfL Open Data.

Safety

43 / 1,000 · East of England 80.4On map
Trend
Stable over 11 months
Road casualties ≤ 500 m
8 in 5 years · 2 children · 2 serious or fatal · On map
Who was hurt
5 pedestrians · 3 cyclists
Per year
4 · 1 · 1 · 1 · 1 (2021–2025)
Period
12 months to Aug 2026
Sources

Crime is counted where it happens, so busy shopping and night-life streets score high.

Rates are per 1,000 residents over 12 months; places with few residents and many visitors read high.

Police.uk open data: the police forces of England and Wales. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Road casualties: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19), OGL v3.0. Many slight injuries are never reported to the police.

Recorded crime. Police-recorded offences in the 12 months to the selected month, per 1,000 residents (every police force in England). Excludes anti-social behaviour and British Transport Police.

Police.uk open data · 2026-08

Rolling 12 months: each month shows offences recorded in the year to that month.

Published crime coordinates are deliberately anonymised and never identify a building.

British Transport Police records are excluded.

Anti-social behaviour is excluded from the rate (police.uk lists it separately).

Population denominator: ONS mid-2024 LSOA estimates; council/MSOA rates use summed counts and populations.

City of London and West End rates use resident population; daytime footfall is far higher.

police.uk places each crime at an anonymous snap point; an LSOA with fewer than 20 offences in 12 months and under a tenth of the crimes its MSOA rate predicts shows the MSOA rate instead (marked fallback).

Percentiles compare each area with the others of its region.

No figure where the police force did not publish every month of the 12 (latest window: Greater Manchester, Northumbria, Gloucestershire).

How this is worked out

Schools

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Nurseries ≤ 1 km
0 well rated
Sources

State schools within 1.5 km, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Not a catchment: being close does not guarantee a place.

Top 10%: the school is in the top tenth of East of England's schools on its latest published results and rated Good or better.

Older Ofsted grades and the new report cards are not comparable; each badge says which it is.

Kids, each ranked against East of England's areas: nurseries and pre-schools within 1 km rated well by Ofsted (Good or Outstanding, or a report card with no area below Expected standard; childminders are not included), Ofsted Early Years management information, Open Government Licence v3.0. Road safety: pedestrians and cyclists hurt within 500 m in police-reported collisions over five years, DfT road safety data (STATS19), Open Government Licence v3.0. Cycle lanes: km of protected track and TfL Cycleway within 1 km, TfL Cycling Infrastructure Database (surveyed 2017–19) and Cycleways, Powered by TfL Open Data (London only).

Local places

On map
Sources

Shops, pubs, cafés, pharmacies and GP surgeries mapped in OpenStreetMap. Volunteers keep it up to date, so a new or closed place may be missing.

Food hygiene: cafés, restaurants, takeaways and pubs within 800 m with a published rating; exempt places and those awaiting inspection are left out. Food Standards Agency, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Green & quiet

On map
Homes over 55 dB
17.9%
Road noise
Median 51.2 dB (94.9% of homes mapped) · 0.7% over 65 dB · no rail
Flood (highest band)
rivers and sea: high · surface water: high
Sources

Flood: shares of the area's land by Environment Agency band, not of its buildings. Highest: the highest band covering at least 1% of the land.

Environment Agency: these bands show the likelihood of flooding for an area, not for a specific property. Check one address.

Bands are modelled chances of flooding in a year, not a record of past floods.

Area figures describe the land in the area, not each building in it.

Read from the Environment Agency's map service at 1 m per pixel, the same grid as the London figures.

Homes are the addresses in the domestic EPC register, read at their OS Open UPRN point; no single home is shown.

Places outside every mapped band count as very low. Groundwater and sewer flooding are not included.

Rivers, lakes and reservoirs (OpenStreetMap) are left out of an area's land.

Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea and Risk of Flooding from Surface Water (NaFRA2). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right. Open water: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Homes: OS Open UPRN (OGL v3) at UPRNs in the domestic EPC register (OGL v3).

Noise: modelled whole-day average (Lden) at 4,547 recorded homes, road or rail; no aircraft noise.

Modelled annual averages at 4 m above ground on a 10 m grid, not measurements.

Levels under 40 dB Lden are not mapped; aircraft noise is not included outside London.

Homes are the addresses in the domestic EPC register, read at their OS Open UPRN point; no single home is shown.

Homes under 40 dB Lden are not mapped; the road median covers mapped homes only.

Defra strategic noise mapping Round 4 (2022), road and rail. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Homes: OS Open UPRN and the domestic EPC register (OGL v3).

Health

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Sources

Air and summer heat: Greater London Authority. GPs: NHS England. Loaded in real mode only.

Homes

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Sources

Shares of this area's households, Census; the tick on each row is London. Neutral context, never rated.

People

Census 2021

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Sources

Shares of this area's residents and households, Census; the tick on each row is London. Neutral context, never rated.

Deprivation is the official Index of Multiple Deprivation for the area, not its people.

Living costs

Band D £2,516Central Bedfordshire 2026-27
Council tax 2026-27
Band D £2,516 · A £1,677 … H £5,032
Band D
£2,516.16 = Central Bedfordshire £1,931.54 + Police £297.59 + Fire £122.72 + Parish £164.31
Councillors, MP and area codes
Sources

Councillor data from Democracy Club (democracyclub.org.uk), CC BY 4.0.

Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026.

MP data from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.