Dunstable
TownTown in Central Bedfordshire, East of England.
Dunstable is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Dunstable add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Dunstable live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Dunstable compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Dunstable safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Dunstable at a rate of 74.7 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 80.2 per 1,000 people across East of England.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 265 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Dunstable.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,023), anti-social behaviour (463) and other crime (461).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Dunstable was 78.3 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 Dunstable, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Dunstable has no single figure. Of its 20 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Dunstable
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Bedfordshire 028A | 1,456 | 33.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 95.6% |
| Central Bedfordshire 028B | 1,196 | 102.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.6% |
| Central Bedfordshire 028C | 1,665 | 80.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.0% |
| Central Bedfordshire 028D | 1,589 | 54.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.8% |
| Central Bedfordshire 028E | 1,681 | 25.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.3% |
| Central Bedfordshire 028G | 1,605 | 75.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 91.7% |
| Central Bedfordshire 028H | 1,479 | 51.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 68.0% |
| Central Bedfordshire 029A | 1,502 | 89.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 94.8% |
| Central Bedfordshire 029B | 1,668 | 95.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.4% |
| Central Bedfordshire 029C | 2,247 | 151.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 89.7% |
| Central Bedfordshire 029D | 1,835 | 72.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 94.6% |
| Central Bedfordshire 029F | 1,711 | 71.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 70.5% |
| Central Bedfordshire 029G | 1,543 | 186.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 77.6% |
| Central Bedfordshire 030A | 1,689 | 63.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 90.3% |
| Central Bedfordshire 030B | 1,516 | 43.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.9% |
| Central Bedfordshire 030C | 2,316 | 50.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 91.2% |
| Central Bedfordshire 031A | 1,693 | 62.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 94.6% |
| Central Bedfordshire 031B | 1,788 | 54.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.6% |
| Central Bedfordshire 031C | 1,554 | 27.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
| Central Bedfordshire 031D | 1,571 | 30.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.5% |
Your MP
- Alex MayerLabourMP for Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Dunstable2
Middle areas in Dunstable4
Towns near Dunstable6
Dunstable in brief
Dunstable is a town in Central Bedfordshire, East of England.
About 37,678 people lived in Dunstable in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £330,000 in 2025 across 491 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 74.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Dunstable was £330,000 in 2025.
Dunstable had 34,498 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Dunstable live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Dunstable, 92.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.