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Working in care in Luton

A young town with a fast growing older generation: caring in Luton

Luton is one of the youngest places in the East of England. At the 2021 census the median age was 34, second only to Cambridge in the region. Yet the CQC's 2026 assessment of the council points out that the number of residents aged over 85 rose by almost 30% in the decade to 2021. That combination, plenty of working age people and a quickly growing group of the very old, is the backdrop to care work in the town.

It is a dense, built up borough rather than a sprawling one, and home care agencies outnumber care homes by more than two to one, with very few nursing homes inside the boundary. Calls tend to be close together, so a car is helpful but not always essential. The guided busway runs from Luton through Houghton Regis to Dunstable, which opens up work just over the border too.

The CQC's assessment calls Luton super diverse, with more than 150 languages and dialects spoken. Pakistan, Poland and Bangladesh are the most common countries of birth after England, and there are growing Congolese, Somali, Ghanaian, Nigerian, Turkish and Zimbabwean communities. If you speak Urdu, Bengali, Polish, Somali or another language, list it, because many older residents will value a carer they can talk with easily.

In Luton, anyone getting direct payments from the borough council can choose to hire a personal assistant with them. The person you support becomes your employer, and the council says close family members who live in the same household usually cannot be employed. For NHS work, Luton and Dunstable University Hospital, part of Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, is on Lewsey Road. Barnfield College runs Health and Social Care courses from Level 1 to Level 3, plus an Access to Higher Education course in healthcare professions for adults thinking about nursing.

69% of the inspected care employers in Luton are rated Good or Outstanding by the CQC, below the 82% across the East and below England as a whole (85%).