LU5 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

833 of the district's 1,147 postcodes are live in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there. The live postcodes centre on 51.91204, -0.51486, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in LU5

Companies House lists 2,985 companies with a registered office in LU5; 188 of them at addresses shared by 25 or more companies (1 October 2026 snapshot). 25 is the count at which the address lookup reports a company cluster.

Places OS Open Names lists for LU5

• Central Bedfordshire
• Eastern
• Houghton Regis
• Dunstable
• Luton
• Toddington
• Harlington
• Thorn
• Bidwell
• Linmere
• Fancott

Roads filed under LU5

Named roads first, then numbered ones. A road is filed under one district even where it runs through several, so a street missing here may be listed under a neighbouring district — which is why the address lookup never calls a British street absent. Great Britain has no open register of buildings, so a listed road never means a building on it exists.

• Abacot Grove
• Abbey Walk
• Agrimony Croft
• Airedale Gardens
• Alabaster Avenue
• Alban Corner
• Alfred Street
• Allenby Avenue
• Allen Close
• All Saints Road
• Alma Farm Road
• Alnwick Grove
• Alsop Close
• Amble Close
• Angels Lane
• Apollo Close
• Arenson Way
• Arnald Way
• Arrowhead Lane
• Ashbury Mead
• Ash Grove
• Ashington Way
• Ash Tree Road
• Ashwell Walk
• Aspen Crescent
• Astrey Close
• Aubrey Close
• Aventine Grove
• Aylesbury Drive
• Bagshawe Way
• Balmoral Road
• Bamburgh Way
• Bankside Close
• Barleyfield Way
• Barton Avenue
• Barton Road
• Bassett Edge
• Bay Willow Mews
• Beadnell Grove
• Beauchamp Road
• Bedford Road
• Bedford Square
• Beech Tree Way
• Bellingham Gardens
• Bernard Close
• Betony Meadow
• Bidwell Close
• Bidwell Hill
• Bidwell Path
• Bigthan Road
• Blackburn Road
• Black Thorn Road
• Blenheim Place
• Bloomsbury Gardens
• Blows Road
• Bluebell Croft
• Boater Drive
• Borders Way
• Borough Road
• Boscombe Road

Check an address in LU5

Check an address in LU5

The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=LU5" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about LU5

What does an LU5 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the LU5 district of the LU (Luton) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Houghton Regis. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 833 live postcodes.

Where the counts come from

• ons-postcode-directory · version 2026-08 · Contains ONS, OS and Royal Mail data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Northern Ireland postcodes are excluded: their reuse needs a Land & Property Services licence.
• os-open-names · version 2026-11-01 · Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
• uk-companies-house · version 2026-10-01 · Companies House free company data product, Open Government Licence v3.0

What each figure means, and what a district page never says, is set out in Reading a British postcode district page; the glossary defines a postcode district, a postcode area, a postcode directory and a street register.

Data synced on 2026-11-01: the newest version among the datasets listed above.

Districts nearest LU5

• LU43.5 km
• LU64.1 km
• LU35.0 km
• LU17.3 km
• LU28.5 km
• LU710.1 km
• MK4512.7 km
• AL515.5 km
• MK1715.9 km
• HP2316.4 km
• HP416.4 km
• MK216.8 km
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distance between the districts' centroids