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: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Every postcode in LE5, and which are new since 2020

New since 2020: 52
In use before 2020: 1,417
Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together

Of the 1,469 postcodes in LE5 that ONS places, 52 are new since 2020 and 1,417 were in use before 2020.

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. New since 2020 means it came into use in January 2020 or later. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and 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

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; when each came into use: the same directory; roads, rivers and built-up areas: 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. How we use them

The 5 newest postcodes

LE5 9HGMarch 2026 LE5 4AZJanuary 2026 LE5 3AZNovember 2025 LE5 3ASSeptember 2025 LE5 9QRSeptember 2025

Where the new postcodes lie together

32 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. LE5 9HG, is the newest of them.

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.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit1,361 of 1,419

Postcodes where every home can get superfast1,404 of 1,419

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 checker

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

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.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 282 of 1,469 postcodes High: 399Medium: 405Low: 1,906Very low: 1,237

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, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What do homes sell for in LE5?

Homes in LE5 sold for a typical £273,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 440 sales, down 0.7% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£273,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026

£275,000 12 months to August 2025

▼ down 0.7% on the 12 months before

Detached £385,000 72 sales
Semi-detached £290,000 173 sales
Terraced £245,000 166 sales
Flat or maisonette £125,000 29 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 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it