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All 1,329 roads with at least five homes, ranked by the LocationShark road score: mostly home values, the rest what's within reach against roads of similar value, with points off only where a road is noticeably worse. How the score works · About Luton.
Every road with at least five homes gets a score out of 100, compared with the other roads in its council.
The road's typical home value today, ranked against every road in the council. Pricier roads generally score higher: price is the clearest sign of what people value about a place.
What is within reach, judged only against roads of similar value (the council's roads in ten price bands), so a road competes with roads like it:
| Transport | 30% | A rail or other station within walking distance (best 250 m to 1 km away; right next to one counts for less) and a bus stop with 4+ buses an hour |
|---|---|---|
| Shops and cafés | 25% | A supermarket within 400 m and a café within 300 m score full marks, fading to nothing at about a 20-minute walk |
| Top schools | 25% | A state primary and a state secondary in the top quarter for results nearby |
| Leisure | 20% | A gym, sports centre or pool, a park and a golf course |
+4 within 500 m of a bathing beach, +2 within 1.5 km.
An ordinary road loses nothing. Points come off only past a clear threshold:
| Crime | up to 8 | Only on roads in the worst tenth nationally for crimes per 100 homes |
|---|---|---|
| Noise | up to 6 | Road, rail and aircraft noise together above 55 dB: half a point for each decibel over |
| Road safety | up to 4 | Only on roads in the worst tenth nationally for injury collisions for their length |
| Air | up to 3 | Nitrogen dioxide in the neighbourhood above 15 µg/m³ |
Distances are measured from the road's postcodes and weighted by where its homes are. Sources: HM Land Registry; police.uk; Department for Transport road casualties; Defra noise maps and air quality; NaPTAN and bus timetables; OpenStreetMap; Food Standards Agency; Department for Education school results; Environment Agency bathing waters.
Hartley Road, LU2 scores 24 and ranks 19 of 44 roads in High Town, and 1,141 of 1,329 across the council. ·
Your road
Top 10 as listedLines join the road's postcodes, so they show where a road is rather than its exact course.
| Road | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taylor Street, LU2High Town · price band 8 | 335 | 70 | £360k | 53 | 92 | 78 | 97 | 57 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 71.4 | – | 0 | 7 |
| Hart Hill Lane, LU2High Town · price band 8 | 380 | 67 | £356k | 47 | 92 | 35 | 75 | 43 | – | – | – | – | – | 82 | 42.9 | – | 0 | 42 |
| Arncliffe Crescent, LU2Hidden gemHigh Town · price band 5 | 656 | 52 | £297k | 72 | 93 | 49 | 98 | 93 | – | – | – | – | – | 74 | 18.8 | – | 0 | 16 |
| Hart Hill Drive, LU2High Town · price band 4 | 857 | 40 | £275k | 61 | 95 | 20 | 88 | 57 | – | – | – | – | – | 90 | 9.1 | – | 0 | 110 |
| Pomfret Avenue, LU2High Town · price band 3 | 863 | 40 | £265k | 75 | 88 | 74 | 70 | 45 | – | – | – | – | – | 52 | 6.2 | – | 0 | 129 |
| Kingston Road, LU2High Town · price band 3 | 945 | 36 | £259k | 67 | 88 | 69 | 80 | 65 | – | – | – | – | – | 92 | 8.1 | – | 1 | 111 |
| Albion Court, LU2Hidden gemHigh Town · price band 2 | 961 | 35 | £244k | 81 | 56 | 53 | 77 | 34 | – | – | – | – | – | 96 | 0 | – | 0 | 30 |
| Ridgway Road, LU2Hidden gemHigh Town · price band 2 | 1,009 | 32 | £236k | 77 | 87 | 53 | 49 | 33 | – | – | – | – | – | 87 | 3 | – | 0 | 200 |
| Cobden Street, LU2Hidden gemHigh Town · price band 2 | 1,010 | 32 | £232k | 78 | 87 | 53 | 84 | 36 | – | – | – | – | – | 76 | 0 | – | 0 | 22 |
| Elgar Path, LU2Hidden gemHigh Town · price band 2 | 1,026 | 31 | £231k | 75 | 72 | 33 | 72 | 51 | – | – | – | – | – | 96 | 0 | – | 0 | 54 |
| Oxen Industrial Estate, LU2High Town · price band 2 | 1,027 | 31 | £228k | 77 | 87 | 53 | 51 | 26 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | – | 0 | 5 |
| Reginald Street, LU2High Town · price band 2 | 1,054 | 29 | £243k | 57 | 74 | 30 | 74 | 67 | – | – | – | – | – | 90 | 12.3 | – | 2 | 154 |
| The Wickets, LU2Hidden gemHigh Town · price band 2 | 1,069 | 28 | £201k | 83 | 83 | 23 | 79 | 88 | – | – | – | – | – | 81 | 0 | – | 0 | 40 |
| North Street, LU2Hidden gemHigh Town · price band 2 | 1,088 | 27 | £216k | 71 | 80 | 51 | 74 | 40 | – | – | – | – | – | 85 | 3 | – | 0 | 101 |
| Cromwell Hill, LU2High Town · price band 3 | 1,103 | 25 | £248k | 38 | 88 | 53 | 92 | 92 | – | – | – | – | – | 84 | 80 | – | 4 | 30 |
| Edward Street, LU2High Town · price band 2 | 1,110 | 25 | £235k | 50 | 87 | 53 | 73 | 35 | – | – | – | – | – | 86 | 100 | – | 0 | 42 |
| Frederick Street, LU2High Town · price band 2 | 1,112 | 25 | £231k | 50 | 70 | 34 | 75 | 59 | – | – | – | – | – | 88 | 19.1 | – | 2 | 136 |
| Jubilee Street, LU2High Town · price band 2 | 1,128 | 24 | £230k | 50 | 87 | 53 | 60 | 28 | – | – | – | – | – | 89 | 39.5 | – | 0 | 43 |
| Hartley Road, LU2High Town · price band 2 | 1,141 | 24 | £207k | 64 | 87 | 46 | 61 | 25 | – | – | – | – | – | 79 | 14 | – | 0 | 129 |
| William Street, LU2High Town · price band 2 | 1,156 | 23 | £216k | 54 | 67 | 43 | 87 | 60 | – | – | – | – | – | 90 | 72.2 | – | 0 | 36 |
| High Town Road, LU2High Town · price band 2 | 1,159 | 23 | £209k | 57 | 83 | 53 | 56 | 30 | – | – | – | – | – | 89 | 5.7 | – | 1 | 368 |
| Berkeley Path, LU2Hidden gemHigh Town · price band 1 | 1,162 | 23 | £175k | 74 | 64 | 43 | 61 | 36 | – | – | – | – | – | 98 | 0 | – | 0 | 89 |
| Butterworth Path, LU2Hidden gemHigh Town · price band 1 | 1,163 | 23 | £165k | 78 | 52 | 46 | 64 | 38 | – | – | – | – | – | 97 | 0 | – | 0 | 104 |
| Knights Field, LU2High Town · price band 2 | 1,175 | 22 | £209k | 54 | 80 | 17 | 69 | 90 | – | – | – | – | – | 67 | 18.1 | – | 0 | 83 |
| The Shires, LU2High Town · price band 1 | 1,207 | 20 | £182k | 60 | 70 | 51 | 70 | 73 | – | – | – | – | – | 93 | 18.9 | – | 0 | 74 |
| Popes Court, LU2High Town · price band 1 | 1,208 | 20 | £169k | 67 | 48 | 13 | 51 | 92 | – | – | – | – | – | 71 | 0 | – | 0 | 42 |
| Treetop Close, LU2High Town · price band 2 | 1,214 | 19 | £209k | 44 | 87 | 53 | 39 | 22 | – | – | – | – | – | 65 | 130 | – | 0 | 30 |
| Chadwell Close, LU2High Town · price band 1 | 1,220 | 19 | £185k | 52 | 70 | 51 | 30 | 28 | – | – | – | – | – | 90 | 81.3 | – | 0 | 16 |
| Wenlock Street, LU2High Town · price band 1 | 1,226 | 19 | £153k | 65 | 62 | 49 | 63 | 30 | – | – | – | – | – | 92 | 12.8 | – | 0 | 39 |
| York Street, LU2High Town · price band 1 | 1,232 | 18 | £194k | 45 | 70 | 51 | 56 | 21 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 50 | – | 1 | 34 |
| Midland Road, LU2High Town · price band 1 | 1,235 | 18 | £186k | 47 | 33 | 51 | 75 | 28 | – | – | – | – | – | 68 | 1.9 | – | 2 | 258 |
| Earls Meade, LU2High Town · price band 1 | 1,236 | 18 | £185k | 48 | 70 | 22 | 61 | 92 | – | – | – | – | – | 53 | 14.2 | – | 1 | 148 |
| Clarendon Road, LU2High Town · price band 1 | 1,241 | 18 | £163k | 61 | 60 | 32 | 64 | 86 | – | – | – | – | – | 76 | 26.6 | – | 0 | 169 |
| Crescent Rise, LU2High Town · price band 1 | 1,248 | 17 | £194k | 39 | 70 | 34 | 41 | 24 | – | – | – | – | – | 80 | 50.8 | – | 1 | 61 |
| Oxen Road, LU2High Town · price band 1 | 1,251 | 17 | £185k | 45 | 70 | 51 | 36 | 19 | – | – | – | – | – | 12 | 160 | – | 0 | 15 |
| Moorland Gardens, LU2High Town · price band 1 | 1,255 | 17 | £166k | 53 | 70 | 51 | 74 | 64 | – | – | – | – | – | 65 | 147.4 | – | 0 | 38 |
| Duke Street, LU2High Town · price band 1 | 1,262 | 16 | £193k | 38 | 41 | 30 | 41 | 22 | – | – | – | – | – | 39 | 365.4 | – | 0 | 26 |
| The Larches, LU2High Town · price band 1 | 1,267 | 16 | £177k | 47 | 70 | 48 | 70 | 83 | – | – | – | – | – | 91 | 58.3 | – | 1 | 72 |
| Gregories Close, LU3High Town · price band 1 | 1,275 | 16 | £150k | 55 | 70 | 30 | 64 | 92 | – | – | – | – | – | 79 | 69.6 | – | 0 | 23 |
| Charles Street, LU2High Town · price band 1 | 1,280 | 15 | £178k | 41 | 70 | 51 | 57 | 22 | – | – | – | – | – | 70 | 74.2 | – | 1 | 31 |
| Dudley Street, LU2High Town · price band 1 | 1,282 | 15 | £173k | 42 | 60 | 49 | 60 | 35 | – | – | – | – | – | 68 | 37.5 | – | 3 | 152 |
| Villa Road, LU2High Town · price band 1 | 1,283 | 15 | £163k | 47 | 70 | 51 | 78 | 34 | – | – | – | – | – | 73 | 50 | – | 0 | 44 |
| Crescent Road, LU2High Town · price band 1 | 1,316 | 12 | £133k | 45 | 54 | 20 | 39 | 25 | – | – | – | – | – | 85 | 5.5 | – | 2 | 73 |
| Moulton Rise, LU2High Town · price band 1 | 1,321 | 11 | £148k | 38 | 69 | 25 | 41 | 25 | – | – | – | – | – | 98 | 24.3 | – | 2 | 111 |
Click a column heading to sort by it (again to reverse). Quality and its four parts compare each road only with roads in the same price band in the council, so 100 means the best of roads like it. Crime, Noise, Road safety and Air are points off, only where a road is noticeably worse than normal. Hidden gem: in the top 30% of its price band for quality, cheaper per m² than most roads of similar quality (good value 70+), and outside the council's priciest fifth of roads. On the up: crime on the road down by a third or more on the year before (from at least 4 crimes), in a neighbourhood whose values rose faster than the council's last year. A road through two neighbourhoods is listed once, under the one with more of its homes.