Leighton Buzzard
TownTown in Central Bedfordshire, East of England.
Leighton Buzzard is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Leighton Buzzard 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 Leighton Buzzard live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Leighton Buzzard compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Leighton Buzzard safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Leighton Buzzard at a rate of 64.7 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, 264 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Leighton Buzzard.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (957), anti-social behaviour (490) and other crime (446).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Leighton Buzzard was 65.6 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 Leighton Buzzard, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Leighton Buzzard has no single figure. Of its 29 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 9 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 7 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Leighton Buzzard
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Bedfordshire 019F | 1,146 | 27.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 85.9% |
| Central Bedfordshire 020A | 1,475 | 31.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.2% |
| Central Bedfordshire 020B | 1,571 | 49.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Central Bedfordshire 020C | 1,424 | 72.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Central Bedfordshire 020D | 1,766 | 41.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 75.9% |
| Central Bedfordshire 020E | 1,452 | 30.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 72.4% |
| Central Bedfordshire 021A | 2,084 | 344.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 75.8% |
| Central Bedfordshire 021B | 1,655 | 60.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.4% |
| Central Bedfordshire 021C | 1,907 | 151.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 71.3% |
| Central Bedfordshire 021D | 1,792 | 34.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 96.8% |
| Central Bedfordshire 021E | 2,144 | 93.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 93.5% |
| Central Bedfordshire 022A | 1,659 | 62.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 84.6% |
| Central Bedfordshire 022B | 1,543 | 32.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 81.1% |
| Central Bedfordshire 022C | 1,744 | 82.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 88.1% |
| Central Bedfordshire 022D | 1,099 | 15.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 47.7% |
| Central Bedfordshire 023A | 1,222 | 15.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 62.4% |
| Central Bedfordshire 023B | 1,280 | No figure | 10 | 86.2% |
| Central Bedfordshire 023C | 1,399 | 26.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 58.8% |
| Central Bedfordshire 023D | 1,457 | 18.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 78.8% |
| Central Bedfordshire 024A | 1,389 | 26.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Central Bedfordshire 024D | 1,352 | 30.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.5% |
| Central Bedfordshire 024E | 1,806 | 53.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.1% |
| Central Bedfordshire 024F | 1,713 | 28.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 90.6% |
| Central Bedfordshire 024H | 1,375 | 98.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 94.5% |
| Central Bedfordshire 024I | 1,216 | 58.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 84.8% |
| Central Bedfordshire 024J | 1,066 | 35.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 81.7% |
| Central Bedfordshire 024K | 1,022 | 55.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 90.1% |
| Central Bedfordshire 024L | 1,262 | 75.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 74.2% |
| Central Bedfordshire 024M | 1,525 | 51.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.8% |
Your MP
- Alex MayerLabourMP for Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard
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Council1
Postcode districts covering Leighton Buzzard1
Middle areas in Leighton Buzzard5
Towns near Leighton Buzzard6
Leighton Buzzard in brief
Leighton Buzzard is a town in Central Bedfordshire, East of England.
About 45,228 people lived in Leighton Buzzard in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £355,000 in 2025 across 971 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 64.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Leighton Buzzard was £355,000 in 2025.
Leighton Buzzard had 42,736 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Leighton Buzzard live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Leighton Buzzard, 86.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.