Neighbourhoods in Luton
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22 neighbourhoods · 125 sub-areas
Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.
| Bury Park | £1,019 | +3.4% | 85 | 29 |
| Luton 023 | £1,036 | +3.4% | 83 | 1 |
| New Town | £1,102 | +3.4% | 76 | 43 |
| Kingsway | £1,121 | +3.4% | 78 | 53 |
| Luton 022 | £1,130 | +3.4% | 85 | 18 |
| Dallow Road | £1,133 | +3.4% | 66 | 34 |
| Lewsey North | £1,191 | +3.4% | 52 | 72 |
| Farley Hill & Stockwood Park | £1,194 | +3.4% | 68 | 37 |
| Stopsley South & Round Green | £1,229 | +3.4% | 74 | 66 |
| Wigmore & Airport | £1,229 | +3.4% | 52 | 77 |
| Limbury | £1,230 | +3.4% | 76 | 71 |
| Challney | £1,237 | +3.4% | 83 | 75 |
| Marsh Farm | £1,255 | +3.4% | 76 | 61 |
| Montrose Avenue | £1,259 | +3.4% | 85 | 79 |
| Sundon Park | £1,265 | +3.4% | 72 | 81 |
| Leagrave | £1,268 | +3.4% | 81 | 73 |
| Warden Hill | £1,271 | +3.4% | 43 | 75 |
| St Anns Hill | £1,276 | +3.4% | 73 | 81 |
| Stopsley North | £1,280 | +3.4% | 54 | 86 |
| Lewsey South | £1,297 | +3.4% | 72 | 72 |
| Bramingham | £1,356 | +3.4% | 70 | 87 |
| Barnfield | £1,400 | +3.4% | 60 | 85 |
Sources: ONS, MHCLG, DfT, DESNZ, Defra, Police.uk, Ofsted, Ofcom, HM Land Registry. Some columns (salary, council tax, HPI) are published at council-area level.
Where to look in Luton
Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in Luton. Each list is filtered from the same neighbourhood data above — the basis of each shortlist is stated above the list so you know what's been weighted.
Lowest estimated monthly rent. Rent is the LAD-published ONS PIPR median, scaled per neighbourhood by local sale prices (Land Registry).
Highest composite liveability — combines safety, schools, transport access and rental affordability into one 0–100 score (higher = more liveable).
Highest liveability per pound of rent — desirable areas where rent stays close to or below the Luton median.
Cost of living
Median rent and council tax across Luton.
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.
Safety in Luton
Crime in Luton runs at 36% below the national average. Below median (#164 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 64.3, averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods.
How crime is measured
What's counted. Incidents recorded by territorial police forces and published to data.police.uk each month. Rates use the latest 12 months of data divided by the area's mid-2024 ONS resident population — so the figure is reported incidents per 1,000 residents per year.
Anti-social behaviour is the largest category in most areas and is worth reading carefully — it's a community-reports bucket (noise, rowdiness, nuisance), not "crime" in the legal sense. ASB and shoplifting are weighted lower than violent offences in the safety score on each page.
Caveats. The denominator is residents, so workday and tourist destinations can look worse than they feel for someone living there. Greater Manchester forces stopped publishing to data.police.uk in 2020, so figures for those areas are intentionally blank rather than misleadingly low.
Crime detailTop crime types · safest neighbourhoods in this council area
Source: data.police.uk — incident counts adjusted for population, then averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods. National average = England + Wales population-weighted mean.
Schools in Luton
100% of schools serving Luton are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. Best 5% nationally (#1 of 296 cities)
School breakdownOfsted distribution · best neighbourhoods for schools
Ofsted school inspection ratings, latest inspection per school.
Transport in Luton
Modelled door-to-door commute from this council area to nearby employment hubs. Closest first.
Transport detailAll city commute times · mode share · best-connected neighbourhoods
DfT Journey Time Statistics + ONS Travel-to-Work.
Job access from Luton
Luton has 0.48 jobs per resident locally. Above median
Job access detailReachability tiers · sector mix in this council area
ONS BRES (jobs density) + DfT job-accessibility minutes.
Frequently asked about Luton
Short answers to the questions we get most often. Each answer is anchored in the data above and links onward where you can dig deeper.
- What is the average rent in Luton?
- The median monthly rent across Luton is £1,211, based on ONS Private Rental Prices data. Individual neighbourhoods vary — see the shortlist above for the cheapest and most desirable areas.
- Where is the cheapest place to rent in Luton?
- The cheapest neighbourhood in Luton by estimated median rent is Bury Park at approximately £1,019/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
- What's the best neighbourhood to live in Luton?
- By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in Luton is Montrose Avenue at 85/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
- Is Luton a safe area?
- Luton has an average safety score of 61/100 across its constituent neighbourhoods (higher is safer). The score is the national percentile rank of police-recorded crimes per 1,000 residents per year, inverted so 100 means the safest 1% of England + Wales.
- What is council tax in Luton?
- The most common council tax band in Luton is not yet published, with the Band D annual charge currently around £2,020. Council tax is set at the local authority level so the same banding applies to every postcode within Luton.
- What is the average salary in Luton?
- The median annual resident salary in Luton is £28,741, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in Luton, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
- What is the average house price in Luton?
- The average property price in Luton is approximately £278,866 according to HM Land Registry's House Price Index. Individual neighbourhoods vary — typically ±20% around this council area median.
- What's the rental yield in Luton?
- Gross rental yield in Luton is approximately 4.4% — the council-area level median rent annualised over the council-area level median sale price. Net yield (after agency, void, maintenance and tax) typically runs 30–40% lower.
- How long does it take to save a deposit in Luton?
- Saving a 10% deposit at the council area median sale price on the council area median salary, while putting away 10% of takehome pay each month, takes approximately 5.3 years in Luton. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
- Is gigabit broadband available in Luton?
- 100% of premises in Luton are gigabit-capable per Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Coverage is patchier in older terraces and rural fringes — check your specific postcode for service availability.
- What's the unemployment rate in Luton?
- 6.6% of 16-64 residents in Luton are on the DWP Claimant Count — Universal Credit while seeking work, or Jobseeker's Allowance. That's the live monthly local indicator. It's narrower than the ONS Labour Force Survey "ILO unemployment rate" (which counts anyone actively job-seeking on a separate denominator) and narrower again than Census 2021's "% unemployed" (which is calculated against all 16+ residents and so isn't directly comparable).
- How many neighbourhoods are in Luton?
- Luton contains 22 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 125 sub-areas (local areas). Browse the full list at the bottom of this page or use the neighbourhood map above to drill into a specific area.
What you need on day one
All sub-areas in Luton
Every local area, ordered by crawl priority. Most readers want the neighbourhood-level view — these are for deep-link cases or external search-engine arrivals.
- Luton 021D
- Luton 006G
- Luton 017E
- Luton 020D
- Luton 010A
- Luton 017F
- Luton 011D
- Luton 015E
- Luton 011F
- Luton 022C
- Luton 022D
- Luton 017B
- Luton 010F
- Luton 022B
- Luton 012E
- Luton 019D
- Luton 022E
- Luton 017A
- Luton 022A
- Luton 019C
- Luton 010D
- Luton 015C
- Luton 021F
- Luton 017D
- Luton 010C
- Luton 019A
- Luton 011B
- Luton 021H
- Luton 023D
- Luton 010B
- Luton 011A
- Luton 013B
- Luton 020C
- Luton 007E
- Luton 015B
- Luton 006B
- Luton 017C
- Luton 012B
- Luton 021G
- Luton 005E
- Luton 016A
- Luton 003C
- Luton 006F
- Luton 020F
- Luton 015A
- Luton 010E
- Luton 006C
- Luton 006D
- Luton 023B
- Luton 023A
- Luton 014A
- Luton 015D
- Luton 012D
- Luton 016E
- Luton 009A
- Luton 019B
- Luton 020E
- Luton 021B
- Luton 005D
- Luton 013D
- Luton 011C
- Luton 005F
- Luton 011E
- Luton 004D
- Luton 016B
- Luton 021E
- Luton 012C
- Luton 021A
- Luton 003E
- Luton 016F
- Luton 002A
- Luton 005A
- Luton 004B
- Luton 014B
- Luton 016G
- Luton 006A
- Luton 012A
- Luton 009D
- Luton 002B
- Luton 001E
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