Bedfordshire
Luton
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Luton is best known for London Luton Airport, its hat-making and Vauxhall car-making history, and its fast rail links into London.
Postcode districts: LU1, LU2, LU3
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Full Luton area guideProperty prices
£285,800
Average price across Luton · +0.1% in a year
- Detached
- £473,261
- Semi-detached
- £331,013
- Terraced
- £266,988
- Flat / maisonette
- £160,283
Regional figure (Luton), not a valuation of a specific street.
Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI · Updated August 2026
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Luton is a large Bedfordshire town that grew famous for its hat-making industry, once producing straw hats on a huge scale for markets around the world. In the 20th century it became a major centre of car manufacturing with the Vauxhall Motors plant. Today Luton is best known for London Luton Airport, a major low-cost hub, and is home to the University of Bedfordshire and Luton Town FC. With fast Thameslink trains to London, Luton offers renters affordable housing and strong transport connections.
Source notes: Summarised from Wikipedia ("Luton", Wikidata Q160279) and Wardown House Museum (Luton) heritage information.
Page prepared 2026-11-07. Figures come from the official sources named on each card; where we don't have reliable data we say so.