LE5 postcode district: Leicester and around
LE5 is a postcode district in England, with 1,469 postcodes in use in 8 sectors. It has postcodes in Leicester. It is split between 4 councils: Leicester (1,410 postcodes), Blaby (40), Charnwood (16) and 1 other. 59 of its 1,469 postcodes are in Leicestershire. ONS lists no county for the other 1,410.
- Postcodes in use
- 1,469
- Sectors
- 8
- Councils
- 4 councils
- Places
- Leicester
Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.
Every postcode in LE5, by gigabit broadband
- No home or business can get gigabit: 5
- Some can get gigabit: 53
- Every home and business can get gigabit: 1,361
- Ofcom gives no figure: 50
Of the 1,469 postcodes in LE5 that ONS places, 5 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 53 have some that can, 1,361 can all get it and 50 have no Ofcom figure.
Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. No boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 52.6383, longitude -1.0852. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre.
What broadband can you get in LE5?
Ofcom reports on 1,419 of the 1,469 postcodes in LE5. At 1,361 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.
Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.
Is LE5 at risk of flooding?
282 of the 1,469 postcodes in LE5 have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 804 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.
High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.
Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.
Source: Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026.
What do homes sell for in LE5?
Homes in LE5 sold for a typical £272,250 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 418 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £275,000 from 598 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £377,500 68 sales
- Semi-detached £285,000 171 sales
- Terraced £240,000 156 sales
- Flat or maisonette £125,000 23 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.
Postcodes in LE5
Pick a sector, then a postcode. A sector is the district plus the next digit.
Places in LE5
Towns and villages with postcodes in LE5, and how many each has here.
Who covers LE5
How many of the district's postcodes in use fall under each council, constituency and police force area.
Councils
- Leicester1,410
- Blaby40
- Charnwood16
- Harborough3
Constituencies
- Leicester East1,081
- Leicester South329
- Mid Leicestershire40
- Melton and Syston16
- Rutland and Stamford3
Police force areas
- Leicestershire1,469
Next to LE5
"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after LE5 in the LE area.
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Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- Environment Agency flood risk
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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