# LU6

Postcode district covering Dunstable and Beecroft, in Central Bedfordshire.

LU6 is a postcode district covering Dunstable and Beecroft, in Central Bedfordshire. Median sale price £375,000 in 2025. Recorded crime 63.5 per 1,000 people.

Postcode district. Code LU6. In: [Postcodes](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode) › [LU](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/lu)

Approximate outline worked out by Open Index from the ONS Postcode Directory: each census output area belongs to the district that holds most of its postcodes. People, homes, recorded crime and broadband add up those output areas. House sales count every sale with an LU6 postcode. [How census figures are added up](https://openindex.co.uk/sources/population)

## Key figures

- **Median sale price: £375,000** (2025). The median price paid for a home in LU6 was £375,000 in 2025. Joint 674th most expensive of 2,235. Source: Worked out by Open Index from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. Published 28 September 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/lu6#f-house-sales-median-price
- **Population: 34,210** (2021). LU6 had 34,210 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 695th most populated of 2,756. Source: Census 2021, England and Wales and Scotland's Census 2022 and Census 2021, Northern Ireland, 2021. Published 21 July 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/lu6#f-population
- **People in radon Affected Area squares: 3%** (2022). About 3% of people in LU6 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area. UK 44%. Source: Worked out by Open Index from the UKHSA and BGS radon atlas and census output areas. Published 1 December 2022. https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/lu6#f-radon-affected-share
- **Gigabit broadband coverage: 88.5%** (January 2026). In LU6, 88.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026 (Ofcom). UK 87.8%. Source: Connected Nations (Ofcom), January 2026. Published 13 May 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/lu6#f-gigabit-coverage

## On the map

- [Radon Affected Area by postcode district](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas?place=LU6) (Worked out by Open Index · 2022): About 3% of people in LU6 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
- [Sales per year by postcode district](https://openindex.co.uk/map/house-sales-per-year?place=LU6) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 529 homes were sold in LU6 in 2025.
- [Crime and ASB by postcode district](https://openindex.co.uk/map/recorded-crime?place=LU6) (Police recorded crime and outcomes (data.police.uk) · August 2026): Crime and anti-social behaviour for LU6.
- [Population by postcode district](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population?place=LU6) (Census 2021, England and Wales): LU6 had 34,210 usual residents at the census.

## How LU6 compares

Each postcode district against every other postcode district the measure covers.

| Measure | LU6 | Rank | Compared with |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Median sale price | £375,000 | most expensive | 7 postcode districts, LU · 2025 |
| Population | 34,210 | least populated | 7 postcode districts, LU · 2021 |
| People in radon Affected Area squares | 3% | 2nd fewest people in radon Affected Areas | 7 postcode districts, LU · 2022 |
| Gigabit broadband coverage | 88.5% | 2nd lowest | 7 postcode districts, LU · Jan 2026 |

## Is LU6 safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in LU6 at a rate of 63.5 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 82.8 per 1,000 people across the LU postcode area.
In August 2026 alone, 194 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in LU6.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (810), anti-social behaviour (417) and other crime (391).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in LU6 was 68.7 per 1,000 people.
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.

## Deprivation in LU6, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so LU6 has no single figure. Of its 22 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.

## Neighbourhoods in LU6

| Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Buckinghamshire 008C](https://openindex.co.uk/buckinghamshire/neighbourhood/e01017657) | 1,578 | 34.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 50.1% |
| [Buckinghamshire 008D](https://openindex.co.uk/buckinghamshire/neighbourhood/e01017658) | 1,640 | 33.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 90.7% |
| [Central Bedfordshire 028A](https://openindex.co.uk/central-bedfordshire/neighbourhood/e01017566) | 1,456 | 33.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 95.6% |
| [Central Bedfordshire 028B](https://openindex.co.uk/central-bedfordshire/neighbourhood/e01017595) | 1,196 | 102.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.6% |
| [Central Bedfordshire 028C](https://openindex.co.uk/central-bedfordshire/neighbourhood/e01017596) | 1,665 | 80.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.0% |
| [Central Bedfordshire 028D](https://openindex.co.uk/central-bedfordshire/neighbourhood/e01017597) | 1,589 | 54.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.8% |
| [Central Bedfordshire 028E](https://openindex.co.uk/central-bedfordshire/neighbourhood/e01017598) | 1,681 | 25.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.3% |
| [Central Bedfordshire 028G](https://openindex.co.uk/central-bedfordshire/neighbourhood/e01033834) | 1,605 | 75.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 91.7% |
| [Central Bedfordshire 028H](https://openindex.co.uk/central-bedfordshire/neighbourhood/e01033835) | 1,479 | 51.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 68.0% |
| [Central Bedfordshire 029A](https://openindex.co.uk/central-bedfordshire/neighbourhood/e01017565) | 1,502 | 89.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 94.8% |
| [Central Bedfordshire 029B](https://openindex.co.uk/central-bedfordshire/neighbourhood/e01017567) | 1,668 | 95.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.4% |
| [Central Bedfordshire 029C](https://openindex.co.uk/central-bedfordshire/neighbourhood/e01017568) | 2,247 | 151.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 89.7% |
| [Central Bedfordshire 029D](https://openindex.co.uk/central-bedfordshire/neighbourhood/e01017569) | 1,835 | 72.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 94.6% |
| [Central Bedfordshire 031A](https://openindex.co.uk/central-bedfordshire/neighbourhood/e01017623) | 1,693 | 62.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 94.6% |
| [Central Bedfordshire 031B](https://openindex.co.uk/central-bedfordshire/neighbourhood/e01017624) | 1,788 | 54.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.6% |
| [Central Bedfordshire 031C](https://openindex.co.uk/central-bedfordshire/neighbourhood/e01017625) | 1,554 | 27.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
| [Central Bedfordshire 031D](https://openindex.co.uk/central-bedfordshire/neighbourhood/e01017626) | 1,571 | 30.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.5% |
| [Central Bedfordshire 032A](https://openindex.co.uk/central-bedfordshire/neighbourhood/e01017571) | 1,256 | 31.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 78.9% |
| [Central Bedfordshire 032B](https://openindex.co.uk/central-bedfordshire/neighbourhood/e01017572) | 1,388 | 46.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 90.6% |
| [Central Bedfordshire 032C](https://openindex.co.uk/central-bedfordshire/neighbourhood/e01017586) | 1,517 | 80.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 26.6% |
| [Central Bedfordshire 032D](https://openindex.co.uk/central-bedfordshire/neighbourhood/e01017587) | 1,638 | 46.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.7% |
| [Central Bedfordshire 032E](https://openindex.co.uk/central-bedfordshire/neighbourhood/e01017588) | 1,196 | 56.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 47.1% |

## Your MP

- [Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/dunstable-and-leighton-buzzard): Alex Mayer (Labour), MP since July 2024. 66% of the people here.
- [Luton South and South Bedfordshire](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/luton-south-and-south-bedfordshire): Rachel Hopkins (Labour), MP since July 2024. 25% of the people here.
- [Aylesbury](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/aylesbury): Laura Kyrke-Smith (Labour), MP since July 2024. 9.3% of the people here.
- [Harpenden and Berkhamsted](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/harpenden-and-berkhamsted): Victoria Collins (Liberal Democrat), MP since July 2024. 0.1% of the people here.

As of 18 October 2026. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.

## Middle areas in LU6

[Dunstable Central](https://openindex.co.uk/central-bedfordshire/dunstable-central), [Dunstable South](https://openindex.co.uk/central-bedfordshire/dunstable-south), [Dunstable West](https://openindex.co.uk/central-bedfordshire/dunstable-west), [Eaton Bray, Whipsnade & Holywell](https://openindex.co.uk/central-bedfordshire/eaton-bray-whipsnade-and-holywell)

## Postcode sectors in LU6

[LU6 1 (249 postcodes)](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/lu6-1), [LU6 2 (216 postcodes)](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/lu6-2), [LU6 3 (206 postcodes)](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/lu6-3), [LU6 9 (41 postcodes)](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/lu6-9)

## Council

[Central Bedfordshire](https://openindex.co.uk/central-bedfordshire)

## Towns in LU6

[Dunstable](https://openindex.co.uk/town/dunstable)

## Postcode districts next to LU6

[AL3](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/al3), [HP1](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/hp1), [HP2](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/hp2), [HP4](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/hp4), [LU1](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/lu1), [LU5](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/lu5), [LU7](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/lu7)

## More in the LU postcode area

[All LU postcode districts](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/lu), [Every UK postcode area](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode)

## LU6 in brief

LU6 is a postcode district covering Dunstable and Beecroft, in Central Bedfordshire.
About 35,752 people lived in LU6 in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £375,000 in 2025 across 529 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 63.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in LU6 was £375,000 in 2025.
LU6 had 34,210 usual residents at the census.
About 3% of people in LU6 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In LU6, 88.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.

## About

- Type: Postcode district
- Code: LU6
- Postcode area: [LU](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/lu)
- Constituency: [Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/dunstable-and-leighton-buzzard)
- Council: [Central Bedfordshire †](https://openindex.co.uk/central-bedfordshire)
- Area: 54.94 km²
- People, mid-2024: 35,752*
- Neighbourhoods: 22
- Output areas: 110

* People: worked out by Open Index from neighbourhood estimates, shared out by where people lived at the census (by area in Northern Ireland). This area's edges do not follow neighbourhood edges, so the figure is close but not exact.
† Best fit: the constituency, council, region and nation this postcode district mostly lies in. Its edges do not follow theirs.

## Next door

[HP4](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/hp4), [LU7](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/lu7), [LU5](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/lu5), [AL3](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/al3), [LU1](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/lu1), [HP2](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/hp2)

## Latest updates for LU6

- August 2026 house prices published: HM Land Registry and partners · Oct 2026.
- September 2026 rent published: ONS private rents · Oct 2026.
- Dental practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026.
- Schools updated: Ofsted · Oct 2026.

The same figures as JSON: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/places/LU6

## How to cite

Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/lu6, or to one figure with its anchor, https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/lu6#f-house-sales-median-price.

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Snapshot 2026.10.9. The HTML page: https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/lu6