Blaby and Whetstone

Blaby and Whetstone is covered by postcode districts LE8, LE19 and LE87. It is in the Blaby council area, Leicestershire.

Every postcode in Blaby and Whetstone, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Blaby and Whetstone, by flood risk Of the 290 postcodes in Blaby and Whetstone that ONS places, 5 have a home or business at high risk, 9 are at medium risk at worst, 40 are at low risk at worst and 236 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. One group of postcodes at high or medium risk is outlined: 8 postcodes at high or medium risk. Places named: Blaby and Whetstone. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. M1 LE8 4AA: not on the flood risk listLE8 4AB: not on the flood risk listLE8 4AD: not on the flood risk listLE8 4AE: not on the flood risk listLE8 4AF: not on the flood risk listLE8 4AG: not on the flood risk listLE8 4AH: not on the flood risk listLE8 4AJ: not on the flood risk listLE8 4AL: not on the flood risk listLE8 4AN: not on the flood risk listLE8 4AP: not on the flood risk listLE8 4AQ: not on the flood risk listLE8 4AR: not on the flood risk listLE8 4AS: not on the flood risk listLE8 4AT: not on the flood risk listLE8 4AU: not on the flood risk listLE8 4AW: not on the flood risk listLE8 4AX: not on the flood risk listLE8 4AY: not on the flood risk listLE8 4AZ: not on the flood risk listLE8 4BA: not on the flood risk listLE8 4BB: not on the flood risk listLE8 4BD: not on the flood risk listLE8 4BE: not on the flood risk listLE8 4BF: not on the flood risk listLE8 4BG: not on the flood risk listLE8 4BH: not on the flood risk listLE8 4BJ: not on the flood risk listLE8 4BL: not on the flood risk listLE8 4BQ: not on the flood risk listLE8 4BR: not on the flood risk listLE8 4BS: not on the flood risk listLE8 4BT: not on the flood risk listLE8 4BU: not on the flood risk listLE8 4BW: not on the flood risk listLE8 4BX: not on the flood risk listLE8 4BY: not on the flood risk listLE8 4DA: not on the flood risk listLE8 4DB: not on the flood risk listLE8 4DD: not on the flood risk listLE8 4DE: not on the flood risk listLE8 4DF: not on the flood risk listLE8 4DG: not on the flood risk listLE8 4DH: not on the flood risk listLE8 4DJ: not on the flood risk listLE8 4DL: not on the flood risk listLE8 4DN: not on the flood risk listLE8 4DP: not on the flood risk listLE8 4DW: not on the flood risk listLE8 4DX: not on the flood risk listLE8 4DY: not on the flood risk listLE8 4DZ: not on the flood risk listLE8 4EB: not on the flood risk listLE8 4ED: not on the flood risk listLE8 4EF: not on the flood risk listLE8 4EG: not on the flood risk listLE8 4EH: not on the flood risk listLE8 4EJ: not on the flood risk listLE8 4EL: not on the flood risk listLE8 4EN: not on the flood risk listLE8 4EP: not on the flood risk listLE8 4EQ: not on the flood risk listLE8 4ER: not on the flood risk listLE8 4FB: not on the flood risk listLE8 4FN: not on the flood risk listLE8 4FP: not on the flood risk listLE8 4FQ: not on the flood risk listLE8 4FR: not on the flood risk listLE8 4FS: not on the flood risk listLE8 4FT: not on the flood risk listLE8 4FX: not on the flood risk listLE8 4FY: not on the flood risk listLE8 4FZ: not on the flood risk listLE8 4GA: not on the flood risk listLE8 4GD: not on the flood risk listLE8 4GF: not on the flood risk listLE8 4GG: not on the flood risk listLE8 4GJ: not on the flood risk listLE8 4GP: not on the flood risk listLE8 4GS: not on the flood risk listLE8 4GW: not on the flood risk listLE8 4HA: not on the flood risk listLE8 4HB: not on the flood risk listLE8 4HD: not on the flood risk listLE8 4HE: not on the flood risk listLE8 4HF: not on the flood risk listLE8 4HG: not on the flood risk listLE8 4HH: not on the flood risk listLE8 4HJ: not on the flood risk listLE8 4HL: not on the flood risk listLE8 4HP: not on the flood risk listLE8 4HQ: not on the flood risk listLE8 4HR: not on the flood risk listLE8 4HS: not on the flood risk listLE8 4HT: not on the flood risk listLE8 4HY: not on the flood risk listLE8 4HZ: not on the flood risk listLE8 4JA: not on the flood risk listLE8 4JB: not on the flood risk listLE8 4JD: not on the flood risk listLE8 4JE: not on the flood risk listLE8 4NS: not on the flood risk listLE8 4PB: not on the flood risk listLE8 4PD: not on the flood risk listLE8 4YB: not on the flood risk listLE8 6AB: not on the flood risk listLE8 6AD: not on the flood risk listLE8 6AE: not on the flood risk listLE8 6AF: not on the flood risk listLE8 6AH: not on the flood risk listLE8 6AN: not on the flood risk listLE8 6BA: not on the flood risk listLE8 6BB: not on the flood risk listLE8 6BH: not on the flood risk listLE8 6BJ: not on the flood risk listLE8 6BT: not on the flood risk listLE8 6BW: not on the flood risk listLE8 6DA: not on the flood risk listLE8 6EA: not on the flood risk listLE8 6EP: not on the flood risk listLE8 6ER: not on the flood risk listLE8 6ES: not on the flood risk listLE8 6ET: not on the flood risk listLE8 6EU: not on the flood risk listLE8 6EW: not on the flood risk listLE8 6EX: not on the flood risk listLE8 6HA: not on the flood risk listLE8 6HL: not on the flood risk listLE8 6HN: not on the flood risk listLE8 6HP: not on the flood risk listLE8 6HT: not on the flood risk listLE8 6HU: not on the flood risk listLE8 6HW: not on the flood risk listLE8 6HX: not on the flood risk listLE8 6HY: not on the flood risk listLE8 6HZ: not on the flood risk listLE8 6JA: not on the flood risk listLE8 6JB: not on the flood risk listLE8 6JD: not on the flood risk listLE8 6JE: not on the flood risk listLE8 6JF: not on the flood risk listLE8 6JG: not on the flood risk listLE8 6JH: not on 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listLE8 6NU: not on the flood risk listLE8 6NW: not on the flood risk listLE8 6NZ: not on the flood risk listLE8 6PB: not on the flood risk listLE8 6PD: not on the flood risk listLE8 6PE: not on the flood risk listLE8 6PF: not on the flood risk listLE8 6PG: not on the flood risk listLE8 6PH: not on the flood risk listLE8 6PP: not on the flood risk listLE8 6PQ: not on the flood risk listLE8 6PR: not on the flood risk listLE8 6PS: not on the flood risk listLE8 6PT: not on the flood risk listLE8 6QS: not on the flood risk listLE8 6QU: not on the flood risk listLE8 6QW: not on the flood risk listLE8 6QY: not on the flood risk listLE8 6RA: not on the flood risk listLE8 6RB: not on the flood risk listLE8 6WA: not on the flood risk listLE8 6WB: not on the flood risk listLE8 6WD: not on the flood risk listLE8 6WE: not on the flood risk listLE8 6WF: not on the flood risk listLE8 6WG: not on the flood risk listLE8 6WH: not on the flood risk listLE8 6XS: not on the flood risk listLE8 6XT: not on 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listLE8 6ZR: not on the flood risk listLE8 6ZS: not on the flood risk listLE8 6ZT: not on the flood risk listLE8 6ZX: not on the flood risk listLE8 6ZY: not on the flood risk listLE8 6ZZ: not on the flood risk listLE87 2AD: not on the flood risk listLE19 2JB: low flood risk at worstLE8 4EZ: low flood risk at worstLE8 4FA: low flood risk at worstLE8 4FD: low flood risk at worstLE8 4FH: low flood risk at worstLE8 4FL: low flood risk at worstLE8 4FU: low flood risk at worstLE8 4GE: low flood risk at worstLE8 4GH: low flood risk at worstLE8 4GT: low flood risk at worstLE8 4GY: low flood risk at worstLE8 4GZ: low flood risk at worstLE8 4HU: low flood risk at worstLE8 4HX: low flood risk at worstLE8 4JZ: low flood risk at worstLE8 6AA: low flood risk at worstLE8 6AG: low flood risk at worstLE8 6EY: low flood risk at worstLE8 6FA: low flood risk at worstLE8 6LA: low flood risk at worstLE8 6LG: low flood risk at worstLE8 6LJ: low flood risk at worstLE8 6LR: low flood risk at worstLE8 6LU: low flood risk at worstLE8 6LY: low flood risk at worstLE8 6ND: low flood risk at worstLE8 6NE: low flood risk at worstLE8 6NP: low flood risk at worstLE8 6NQ: low flood risk at worstLE8 6NX: low flood risk at worstLE8 6NY: low flood risk at worstLE8 6PJ: low flood risk at worstLE8 6PL: low flood risk at worstLE8 6QT: low flood risk at worstLE8 6QX: low flood risk at worstLE8 6XA: low flood risk at worstLE8 6ZN: low flood risk at worstLE8 6ZU: low flood risk at worstLE8 6ZW: low flood risk at worstLE8 4FJ: medium flood risk at worstLE8 4FW: medium flood risk at worstLE8 4GQ: medium flood risk at worstLE8 4GR: medium flood risk at worstLE8 4GU: medium flood risk at worstLE8 4GX: medium flood risk at worstLE8 4HW: medium flood risk at worstLE8 6LQ: medium flood risk at worstLE8 6QZ: medium flood risk at worstLE8 4FE: high flood riskLE8 4GB: high flood riskLE8 6LB: high flood riskLE8 6LF: high flood riskLE8 6LW: high flood risk Blaby and Whetstone 8 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined: this goes to LE8 4GB, the one with most homes and businesses at high risk8 postcodes at high or medium risk Map of every postcode in Blaby and Whetstone, by flood risk Of the 290 postcodes in Blaby and Whetstone that ONS places, 5 have a home or business at high risk, 9 are at medium risk at worst, 40 are at low risk at worst and 236 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. One group of postcodes at high or medium risk is outlined: 8 postcodes at high or medium risk. Places named: Blaby and Whetstone. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. Blaby and Whetstone
  • A home or business at high risk: 5
  • At medium risk at worst: 9
  • At low risk at worst: 40
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 236
  • Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together

Of the 290 postcodes in Blaby and Whetstone that ONS places, 5 have a home or business at high risk, 9 are at medium risk at worst, 40 are at low risk at worst and 236 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. 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 52.5684, longitude -1.1718. 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

The postcodes at high risk

Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.

Where the postcodes at high or medium risk lie together

What is it like to live in Blaby and Whetstone?

Homes sold for a typical £272,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 1.8% on the 12 months before. At 174 of the 283 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 64 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 54 of its 290 postcodes. It has 4 primary schools and 1 all-through school at its postcodes. 2 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Narborough, 2.2 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources

What do homes cost in Blaby and Whetstone?

Homes in Blaby and Whetstone sold for a typical £272,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 147 sales, down 1.8% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£272,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
£277,000 12 months to August 2025
▼ down 1.8% on the 12 months before
  • Detached £360,000 47 sales
  • Semi-detached £265,000 70 sales
  • Terraced £220,000 22 sales
  • Flat or maisonette £182,500 8 sales

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Across the whole LE8 district, Blaby and Whetstone's main postcode district: a typical £290,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Blaby and Whetstone: 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

Are new homes being built in Blaby and Whetstone?

9 of the 290 postcodes now in use in Blaby and Whetstone came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 188 homes sold in Blaby and Whetstone were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the LE8 district, 9%.

The newest postcodes

A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn Blaby and WhetstoneAcross the LE8 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 147 (0%) 13 of 473 (3%)
The 12 months to August 2025 0 of 188 (0%) 62 of 653 (9%)

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What broadband can you get in Blaby and Whetstone?

Ofcom reports on 283 of the 290 postcodes in Blaby and Whetstone. At 174 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit174 of 283
Postcodes where every home can get superfast272 of 283

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 Blaby and Whetstone at risk of flooding?

54 of the 290 postcodes in Blaby and Whetstone 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 64 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 54 of 290 postcodes High: 8Medium: 56Low: 407

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

Which schools are in Blaby and Whetstone?

The open schools at the postcodes in Blaby and Whetstone. A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.

Find and compare schools in England, on GOV.UK

Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it

How far is the station from Blaby and Whetstone?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Blaby and Whetstone is Narborough Rail Station, 2.2 km away in a straight line.

  • Narborough Rail Station Railway station 2.2 kmCycle
  • South Wigston Rail Station Railway station 3.0 kmCycle
  • Leicester Rail Station Railway station 7.7 kmDrive

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which GP surgeries are in Blaby and Whetstone?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Blaby and Whetstone. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

Find a GP on the NHS website

Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Blaby and Whetstone safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 927 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Blaby and Whetstone over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 77 September 2025
  2. 61 October 2025
  3. 65 November 2025
  4. 57 December 2025
  5. 72 January 2026
  6. 68 February 2026
  7. 97 March 2026
  8. 80 April 2026
  9. 93 May 2026
  10. 72 June 2026
  11. 95 July 2026
  12. 90 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences358 reports
Anti-social behaviour198 reports
Criminal damage and arson89 reports
Public order73 reports
Other theft56 reports
Burglary53 reports
Vehicle crime31 reports
Shoplifting26 reports

Also: other crime 14, drugs 9, robbery 7, possession of weapons 6, bicycle theft 5, theft from the person 2.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Crime around one postcode

Source: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Who runs Blaby and Whetstone?

District, borough or city council
Blaby
County council
Leicestershire
Parliamentary constituency
South Leicestershire
Police force area
Leicestershire
Region
East Midlands
Country
England
MP
Alberto Costa (Conservative)

All 290 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

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

Moving to Blaby and Whetstone

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Blaby and Whetstone postcodes

290 postcodes in use in Blaby and Whetstone, by district:

Those districts are all in the LE postcode area.

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Places near Blaby and Whetstone

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Blaby and Whetstone's £272,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Questions about Blaby and Whetstone

What is it like to live in Blaby and Whetstone?
Homes sold for a typical £272,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 1.8% on the 12 months before. At 174 of the 283 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 64 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 54 of its 290 postcodes. It has 4 primary schools and 1 all-through school at its postcodes. 2 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Narborough, 2.2 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
What is the postcode for Blaby and Whetstone?
Blaby and Whetstone is covered by postcode districts LE8, LE19 and LE87, across 290 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Blaby and Whetstone in?
Blaby and Whetstone is in the Blaby council area, and Leicestershire is its county council. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Blaby and Whetstone?
Blaby and Whetstone is in the South Leicestershire parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Alberto Costa (Conservative), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Blaby and Whetstone?
Homes in Blaby and Whetstone sold for a typical £272,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 147 sales, down 1.8% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Blaby and Whetstone?
In Blaby and Whetstone, primary schools at its postcodes include St Peter's Church of England Primary School Whetstone, Blaby Stokes Church of England Primary School and Badgerbrook Primary School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Foxfields Academy. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Blaby and Whetstone have a railway station?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Blaby and Whetstone is Narborough, 2.2 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Blaby and Whetstone?
Ofcom reports on 283 of the 290 postcodes in Blaby and Whetstone. At 174 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Blaby and Whetstone at risk of flooding?
54 of the 290 postcodes in Blaby and Whetstone 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 64 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Blaby and Whetstone?
9 of the 290 postcodes now in use in Blaby and Whetstone came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 188 homes sold in Blaby and Whetstone were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the LE8 district, 9%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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