Arlesey is a community as well as civil parish in Bedfordshire. It is near the boundary with Hertfordshire, about three miles north-west of Letchworth Yard City, four miles north of Hitchin and also six miles southern of Biggleswade. Arlesey railway station gives services to London, Stevenage as well as Peterborough. The Domesday Book mentions Arlesey. The population of Arlesey was 5,584 in 2,344 households in the 2011 census. In the census of 2011, 94.0% of people defined themselves as white, 2.2% as having actually mixed or multiple ethnic groups, 2.9% as being Eastern or British Asian, and less than 1.0% as having an additional ethnic background. In the very same census, 55.8% defined themselves as Christian, 34.6% explained themselves as having no religion, 6.8% did not specify a religious beliefs, 1.2% explained themselves as Sikh, and 1.7% explained themselves as having a various religion.