LU1 2TR
Recorded crime in the immediate neighbourhood is up 9.3% on a year ago, reaching 1,229 incidents, and violence and sexual offences remain the most common category, as they were three years ago. The median sale price in this postcode sector is £215,000, based on only a handful of recent sales, so it may not be representative. Flood risk is rated High.
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Crime in context
Recorded crime in the immediate neighbourhood stands at 1,229 incidents, up 9.3% on a year ago. Violence and sexual offences remain the most common recorded category, and that is unchanged from three years ago. The figures point to a higher level of recorded crime than a year ago, with the same broad crime type still at the top of the list.
House prices in depth
The median sale price for this postcode sector is £215,000. That figure is based on only a handful of recent sales, so it should be treated as indicative rather than representative of the wider market. Within the sector, flats have a median of £130,000 from 9 sales, terraced homes £300,000 from 3 sales, and semi-detached homes £275,000 from 1 sale. The sector median sits below the wider district median of £300,000 and the national median of £284,238.
Flood risk
The flood band is High.
Flood risk
Rivers & sea: High. Surface water: None identified.
House prices
Sold prices from HM Land Registry, based on sales in the nearby postcode sector (a small cluster of streets), last 24 months.
Range £1,000 – £14,020,000
Based on a small number of transactions in this sector, including one-off very large sales that dominate some months — the spikes here are individual sales, not the general market. Treat the shape of this line with caution.
By property type
Median sold price by type across LU1 2, last 24 months.
- Flat£130,000(9 sales)
- Terraced£300,000(3 sales)
- Semi-detached£275,000(1 sale)
Types shown greyed have too few recent sales for a reliable median — the count is shown so you can judge it yourself.
Sector median £215,000 vs the wider district £300,000 · national £284,238.
Recorded crime
Crime data from Police.uk, based on incidents in the immediate neighbourhood (an official statistics area of roughly 1,500 residents), last 12 months.
How this area has changed
PostcodeLens combines saved monthly snapshots with views reconstructed from official source data, so you can compare today's figures with earlier months.
Saved snapshots are the monthly figures PostcodeLens has recorded since July 2026. Reconstructed views are assembled from official source data (HM Land Registry price paid, Police UK crime) to show earlier months; they carry no flood history.
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