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East of England

Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard

8th decile deprivation (IMD 2025) LOW funding gap
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What the data shows

1 GP for every 2,845 patients. The NHS England average is around 2,200.
NHS Digital General Practice Workforce (Feb 2026) and Patients Registered at a GP Practice (Mar 2026)

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Your councillors

No councillor records have been loaded for Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard yet. Full data arrives after the May 2026 elections.

Index of Multiple Deprivation by domain

Rank out of 543 English constituencies. Lower rank = more deprived.

crime
265/543
health
390/543
income
343/543
housing
354/543
education
293/543
employment
407/543
environment
517/543

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG), published October 2025. See methodology.

Identified resource gaps

crime MODERATE
Rank 265/543 for crime deprivation (IMD 2025)
No crime-focused charities in constituency

Gap severity is computed from IMD 2025 domain ranks and Charity Commission data. See methodology.

1170 registered charities

1,170
Charities
£14,476,656
Grants to HQ'd charities
5,495
Employees
40,427
Volunteers
21.4%
Govt funded
LOW
Funding gap

Grant funding is above the national median. Grant totals reflect money received by charities whose registered office is in this constituency. National charities headquartered here will inflate the total even if most of their work happens elsewhere; charities that serve this constituency but are registered elsewhere will not appear. Source: 360Giving GrantNav and the Charity Commission Register. See methodology for definitions and known limitations.

Largest charities by income

MARL ALLOTMENT
TURVEY POORS LAND
WIDOWS FUND (REV ROBERT HANCOCK'S CHARITY)
TOWN LANDS
CHARLES RICHARDS FOR BREAD AND CLOTHING
EATON SOCON NURSING ASSOCIATION
ELIZABETH LANE
BLANDINA MARSHE
MARSTON MORETAINE RELIEF IN NEED CHARITY
WALTER HOWARD

GP and primary care

9
GP practices
44
FQ FTE GPs
1:2,845
Patients per FQ FTE GP

The NHS England average is approximately 2,200 patients per fully-qualified full-time equivalent GP (NHS Digital General Practice Workforce, February 2026; trainees, grant-paid and locum GPs excluded from the denominator). This constituency is 645 patients above that. See methodology.

People working in Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard, by sector

Sector Employees
Transport 5,650
Education 4,000
Construction 2,325
Social Care 1,500
NHS / Healthcare 1,000
Environment / Green 60

Employee jobs in each sector within this constituency. Workforce exists; the question is whether central government chooses to fund the posts. Source: NOMIS Business Register and Employment Survey (2024). Figures are rounded by ONS for disclosure control. See methodology.

Data sources & provenance
360Giving GrantNav [source]
Accessed 2026-04-08
NHS Digital / Commons Library GP Data [source]
Accessed 2026-04-08
Charity Commission Register [source]
Accessed 2026-03-31
English Indices of Deprivation [source]
Accessed 2026-04-10
ONS NOMIS Labour Market Statistics [source]
Accessed 2026-04-04
Charity Commission Annual Return Data [source]
Accessed 2026-04-10
Charity Commission Classification Extract [source]
Accessed 2026-04-08

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