LE87 postcode district: Leicester and around

LE87 is a postcode district in England, with 39 postcodes in use in 2 sectors. It has postcodes in Leicester, Wigston and Blaby and Whetstone. It is split between 3 councils: Leicester (36 postcodes), Oadby and Wigston (2) and Blaby (1). 3 of its 39 postcodes are in Leicestershire. ONS lists no county for the other 36.

Postcodes in use: 39
Sectors: 2
Councils: 3 councils
Places: 3 places

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

Every postcode in LE87, by flood risk

A home or business at high risk: 0
At medium risk at worst: 0
At low risk at worst: 0
At very low risk only: 0
Not on the at-risk list: 39

Of the 39 postcodes in LE87 that ONS places, 39 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.

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 52.6313, longitude -1.1311. 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; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 2026; 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

Further out, not drawn

This postcode lies well apart from the rest, so the map is drawn without it to show the rest closer; it is in every count.

LE87 2AD

Is LE87 at risk of flooding?

None of the 39 postcodes in LE87 is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

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