Recorded crime
Luton recorded crime by postcode district
Crimes police recorded in July 2026 within roughly 1 mile of each district centre, across 5 Luton districts. Counts, not rates.
Crimes recorded, July 2026
1,989
Across 5 districts, within about 1 mile of each centre.
- Districts
- 5
- Most recorded
- Violence
data.police.uk, July 2026
Summary
Recorded crime in Luton: police recorded 1,989 crimes in July 2026 within roughly 1 mile of the centre of each of the 5 postcode districts with a published figure. LU7 has the lowest recorded count (229) and LU1 the highest (854). The most often recorded category was violent crime, at 37% of the month's recorded crimes. These are counts, not rates: a district with shops, bars and a station will out-count a residential one on footfall alone.
Data from data.police.uk street-level crime API, July 2026.
Read this first
These are counts, not rates. data.police.uk street-level crime API publishes how many crimes were recorded near a point; it publishes no population figure to divide by. A district with a station, shops and bars will record more crime than a residential one because more people pass through it, not necessarily because residents are more likely to be a victim. Recorded crime is also only crime that was reported and recorded, and reporting rates vary by crime type and by area.
Use this to see the shape of a city and to prompt better questions, not to decide that one district is good and another bad.
Our take · opinion, not advice
Our take on Luton crime counts: a wide gap that mostly reflects footfall
Taken together, 5 Luton districts saw 1,989 crimes recorded in July 2026, and the counts run from 229 in LU7 to 854 in LU1, so the busiest districts dwarf the quietest without telling you much about either.
Sellers should expect buyers to have seen this table, so prepare an honest account of your street, including anything good that a count cannot show.
Sell houseIf you are buying, treat the count as a prompt for questions, not a verdict: violent crime was the most often recorded category (37% of the month’s crimes), so ask what kind of crime is local to the street itself.
Before you offer, visit at different times of day, look at the police’s own street-level map for the postcode, talk to neighbours, and ask your conveyancer about anything the seller must disclose.
A district count is the wide view; the free OfferCheck gives the address-level one, with flood, planning, council tax and sold prices alongside.
Check My PostcodeOur opinion, drawn from the figures on this page: not advice and not a forecast. We earn from OfferCheck reports and from introducing sellers to cash buyers, so weigh it with that in mind (see our disclosure). We are not authorised or regulated by the FCA.
Key figures
Luton crime counts at a glance
Police records for July 2026. A count near each district centre is not a safety ranking.
Lowest district
229
LU7, crimes recorded
Middle district
296
Median of the districts
Highest district
854
LU1, crimes recorded
Top category
Violence
731 of 1,989 crimes
Recorded crime
Luton crime by category and district
1,989 recorded crimes across 5 districts in July 2026.
By category
What the recorded crimes were
Violent crime was the most recorded category, with 731 of 1,989 crimes (37%). It describes the month's police records, not what is likely to happen to you.
See the figures
| Category | Recorded | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Violent crime | 731 | 37% |
| Anti social behaviour | 365 | 18% |
| Public order | 154 | 8% |
| Criminal damage arson | 134 | 7% |
| Vehicle crime | 131 | 7% |
data.police.uk street-level crime API, July 2026
By district
Luton districts, lowest recorded count first
Counts run from 229 in LU7 to 854 in LU1. Each row is one postcode district: how many crimes police recorded within about a mile of its centre.
See the figures
| District | Recorded crimes | Most recorded category | Area data |
|---|---|---|---|
| LU7 | 229 | Violent crime (79) | LU7 area report |
| LU3 | 283 | Violent crime (109) | LU3 area report |
| LU2 | 296 | Violent crime (113) | LU2 area report |
| LU4 | 327 | Violent crime (138) | LU4 area report |
| LU1 | 854 | Violent crime (292) | LU1 area report |
Districts with no figure published for July 2026 are left out rather than shown as zero: a force not having published yet is not the same fact as no crime.
data.police.uk street-level crime API, July 2026
Reading the numbers
What the numbers show
Across the 5 Luton postcode districts with a published figure for July 2026, police recorded 1,989 crimes in total within roughly a mile of each district centroid. The median district recorded 296.
LU7 has the lowest recorded crime count of the districts listed (229), and LU1 the highest (854).
The spread across the city is wide: the highest-counting district recorded about 3.7 times as many crimes as the lowest. Much of a gap that size reflects what is in the radius: a city-centre district with shops, bars and a station will out-count a residential one before any difference in how people behave.
The most frequently recorded category across these districts was violent crime, at 37% of all recorded crimes in the month.
Questions, answered
Luton recorded crime: your questions
How many crimes were recorded in Luton?
Which Luton districts record the fewest crimes?
What is the most commonly recorded crime in Luton?
Why does this page not rank Luton districts by crime rate?
Source and method
Where these figures come from
data.police.uk street-level crime API (API documentation), month 2026-07, one request per district at its centroid, ~1 mile radius. England and Wales only. Data.police.uk does not carry Police Scotland or PSNI. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Crime locations published by police forces are snapped to anonymised map points to protect victims, so a point is never an exact address. A guide is only generated for a city where at least 5 of its districts have a published figure.
Your Property Check is an information service, not a substitute for your own enquiries.