Desford

Desford is covered by postcode district LE9. It is in the Hinckley and Bosworth council area, Leicestershire.

Typical price £330,000 Homes sold in Desford, last 12 months. ▲ 6.5% on the year before Gigabit broadband 69 of 87 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 3 of 88 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 3 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 2 1 primary school and 1 secondary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Desford, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Desford, by flood risk Of the 88 postcodes in Desford that ONS places, 2 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at low risk at worst and 85 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Desford. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. LE9 9DA: not on the flood risk listLE9 9DB: not on the flood risk listLE9 9DR: not on the flood risk listLE9 9DU: not on the flood risk listLE9 9DW: not on the flood risk listLE9 9DX: not on the flood risk listLE9 9DY: not on the flood risk listLE9 9FR: not on the flood risk listLE9 9FW: not on the flood risk listLE9 9FX: not on the flood risk listLE9 9FY: not on the flood risk listLE9 9FZ: not on the flood risk listLE9 9GA: not on the flood risk listLE9 9GB: not on the flood risk listLE9 9GD: not on the flood risk listLE9 9GE: not on the flood risk listLE9 9GF: not on the flood risk listLE9 9GG: not on the flood risk listLE9 9GH: not on the flood risk listLE9 9GJ: not on the flood risk listLE9 9GL: not on the flood risk listLE9 9GQ: not on the flood risk listLE9 9GR: not on the flood risk listLE9 9GS: not on the flood risk listLE9 9GT: not on the flood risk listLE9 9GU: not on the flood risk listLE9 9GW: not on the flood risk listLE9 9GX: not on the flood risk listLE9 9GY: not on the flood risk listLE9 9GZ: not on the flood risk listLE9 9HA: not on the flood risk listLE9 9HB: not on the flood risk listLE9 9HD: not on the flood risk listLE9 9HF: not on the flood risk listLE9 9HG: not on the flood risk listLE9 9HH: not on the flood risk listLE9 9HJ: not on the flood risk listLE9 9HL: not on the flood risk listLE9 9HN: not on the flood risk listLE9 9HP: not on the flood risk listLE9 9HQ: not on the flood risk listLE9 9HR: not on the flood risk listLE9 9HS: not on the flood risk listLE9 9HT: not on the flood risk listLE9 9HU: not on the flood risk listLE9 9HW: not on the flood risk listLE9 9HX: not on the flood risk listLE9 9HY: not on the flood risk listLE9 9HZ: not on the flood risk listLE9 9JA: not on the flood risk listLE9 9JB: not on the flood risk listLE9 9JF: not on the flood risk listLE9 9JG: not on the flood risk listLE9 9JH: not on the flood risk listLE9 9JL: not on the flood risk listLE9 9JN: not on the flood risk listLE9 9JP: not on the flood risk listLE9 9JQ: not on the flood risk listLE9 9JR: not on the flood risk listLE9 9JS: not on the flood risk listLE9 9JU: not on the flood risk listLE9 9JW: not on the flood risk listLE9 9JX: not on the flood risk listLE9 9JY: not on the flood risk listLE9 9NY: not on the flood risk listLE9 9QB: not on the flood risk listLE9 9QF: not on the flood risk listLE9 9QG: not on the flood risk listLE9 9QJ: not on the flood risk listLE9 9QL: not on the flood risk listLE9 9QN: not on the flood risk listLE9 9QP: not on the flood risk listLE9 9QQ: not on the flood risk listLE9 9QR: not on the flood risk listLE9 9QS: not on the flood risk listLE9 9QT: not on the flood risk listLE9 9QW: not on the flood risk listLE9 9QX: not on the flood risk listLE9 9QY: not on the flood risk listLE9 9QZ: not on the flood risk listLE9 9RH: not on the flood risk listLE9 9RJ: not on the flood risk listLE9 9RL: not on the flood risk listLE9 9RN: not on the flood risk listLE9 9FN: low flood risk at worstLE9 9FP: high flood riskLE9 9GN: high flood risk Desford Map of every postcode in Desford, by flood risk Of the 88 postcodes in Desford that ONS places, 2 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at low risk at worst and 85 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Desford. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. Desford
  • A home or business at high risk: 2
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 1
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 85

Of the 88 postcodes in Desford that ONS places, 2 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at low risk at worst and 85 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 52.6248, longitude -1.2963. 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.

LE9 9FP2 at high riskLE9 9GN1 at high risk

What is it like to live in Desford?

Homes sold for a typical £330,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 6.5% on the 12 months before. At 69 of the 87 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 3 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 3 of its 88 postcodes. It has 1 primary school and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Narborough, 8.6 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 Desford?

Homes in Desford sold for a typical £330,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 53 sales, up 6.5% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£330,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
12 months to August 2025
£310,000
12 months to August 2026
£330,000

▲ up 6.5% on the 12 months before

Detached£386,250 30 sales
Semi-detached£241,250 20 sales
Terraced 3 sales, too few to price

Across the whole LE9 district, Desford's main postcode district: a typical £270,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Desford: 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 Desford?

10 of the 88 postcodes now in use in Desford came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 39 homes sold in Desford were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the LE9 district, 7%.

The newest postcodes

LE9 9RWsince July 2026LE9 9QXsince February 2023LE9 9RNsince October 2022LE9 9RLsince August 2022LE9 9RJsince February 2022LE9 9QTsince December 2021

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 DesfordAcross the LE9 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 53 (0%) 7 of 741 (Under 1%)
The 12 months to August 2025 0 of 39 (0%) 64 of 963 (7%)

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 Desford?

Ofcom reports on 87 of the 88 postcodes in Desford. At 69 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit69 of 87
Postcodes where every home can get superfast81 of 87

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 Desford at risk of flooding?

3 of the 88 postcodes in Desford 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 3 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 3 of 88 postcodes High: 3Low: 3

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 Desford?

The open schools at the postcodes in Desford. 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.

Primary

Secondary

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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 Desford?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Desford is Narborough Rail Station, 8.6 km away in a straight line.

  • Narborough Rail Station Railway station 8.6 kmDrive
  • Hinckley Rail Station Railway station 11.2 kmDrive
  • Leicester Rail Station Railway station 11.6 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 Desford?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Desford. 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 Desford safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 232 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Desford 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. 11 September 2025
  2. 17 October 2025
  3. 16 November 2025
  4. 12 December 2025
  5. 15 January 2026
  6. 14 February 2026
  7. 17 March 2026
  8. 17 April 2026
  9. 14 May 2026
  10. 27 June 2026
  11. 31 July 2026
  12. 41 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences91 reports
Anti-social behaviour42 reports
Shoplifting27 reports
Burglary19 reports
Public order13 reports
Criminal damage and arson13 reports
Vehicle crime9 reports
Other theft7 reports

Also: other crime 5, drugs 3, theft from the person 1, robbery 1, possession of weapons 1.

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 Desford?

District, borough or city council
Hinckley and Bosworth
County council
Leicestershire
Parliamentary constituency
Hinckley and Bosworth
Police force area
Leicestershire
Region
East Midlands
Country
England
MP
Dr Luke Evans (Conservative)

All 88 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 Desford

Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.

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Desford postcodes

88 postcodes in use in Desford, by district:

LE9 postcode district,88 postcodes

That district is in the LE postcode area.

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Places near Desford

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Desford's £330,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Newbold Verdon3.1 km, £262,000Ratby4.6 km, £274,000Leicester Forest East and Kirby Muxloe5.0 km, £330,000Barlestone5.6 km, £236,000Earl Shilton5.7 km, £234,000Groby6.1 km, £278,000Markfield6.8 km, £255,200Barwell6.9 km, £217,500 All places A to Z

Questions about Desford

What is it like to live in Desford?
Homes sold for a typical £330,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 6.5% on the 12 months before. At 69 of the 87 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 3 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 3 of its 88 postcodes. It has 1 primary school and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Narborough, 8.6 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 Desford?
Desford is covered by postcode district LE9, across 88 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Desford in?
Desford is in the Hinckley and Bosworth council area, and Leicestershire is its county council. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Desford?
Desford is in the Hinckley and Bosworth parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Dr Luke Evans (Conservative), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Desford?
Homes in Desford sold for a typical £330,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 53 sales, up 6.5% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Desford?
In Desford, primary schools at its postcodes include Desford Community Primary School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Bosworth Academy. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Desford have a railway station?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Desford is Narborough, 8.6 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Desford?
Ofcom reports on 87 of the 88 postcodes in Desford. At 69 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Desford at risk of flooding?
3 of the 88 postcodes in Desford 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 3 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 Desford?
10 of the 88 postcodes now in use in Desford came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 39 homes sold in Desford were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the LE9 district, 7%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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