Hinckley
Hinckley is covered by postcode district LE10. It is in the Hinckley and Bosworth council area, Leicestershire.
Every postcode in Hinckley, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 2
- At medium risk at worst: 2
- At low risk at worst: 8
- At very low risk only: 0
- Not on the at-risk list: 1,056
Of the 1,068 postcodes in Hinckley that ONS places, 2 have a home or business at high risk, 2 are at medium risk at worst, 8 are at low risk at worst and 1,056 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 52.5393, longitude -1.3730. 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.
What is it like to live in Hinckley?
Homes sold for a typical £252,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 1.2% on the 12 months before. At 813 of the 980 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 5 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 12 of its 1,068 postcodes. It has at least 6 primary schools, 2 secondary schools and 2 all-through schools at its postcodes. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Hinckley, 500 metres 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 Hinckley?
Homes in Hinckley sold for a typical £252,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 693 sales, down 1.2% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached £370,000 206 sales
- Semi-detached £247,000 283 sales
- Terraced £195,000 152 sales
- Flat or maisonette £130,000 52 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole LE10 district, Hinckley's main postcode district: a typical £258,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Hinckley: 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 Hinckley?
71 of the 1,068 postcodes now in use in Hinckley came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 41 of the 892 homes sold in Hinckley were newly built (5%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the LE10 district, 12%.
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
| Period | In Hinckley | Across the LE10 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to August 2026 | 1 of 693 (Under 1%) | 16 of 733 (2%) |
| The 12 months to August 2025 | 41 of 892 (5%) | 126 of 1,020 (12%) |
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 Hinckley?
Ofcom reports on 980 of the 1,068 postcodes in Hinckley. At 813 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).
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, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Hinckley at risk of flooding?
12 of the 1,068 postcodes in Hinckley 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 5 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, 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 Hinckley?
The open schools at the postcodes in Hinckley (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). 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
- St Mary's Church of England Primary School, Hinckley50 m 224 pupils, 354 places
- Aurora Charnwood School200 m 20 pupils, 50 places
- Saint Peter's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy750 m 190 pupils, 210 places
- Foxglove School800 m
- Westfield Infant School900 m 247 pupils, 264 places
- Westfield Junior School950 m 357 pupils, 385 places
- Hinckley Parks Primary School1.3 km 576 pupils, 630 places
- Dorothy Goodman School Hinckley1.4 km 432 pupils, 420 places
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 Hinckley?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Hinckley is Hinckley Rail Station, 500 m away in a straight line.
- Hinckley Rail Station Railway station 500 mWalk
- Nuneaton Rail Station Railway station 6.3 kmDrive
- Bermuda Park Rail Station Railway station 7.9 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 Hinckley?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Hinckley, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Castle Mead Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report August 2026 · Phone 01455 637659 400 mWalk
- Maples Family Med.pract. Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report July 2021, over 3 years old · Phone 01455 234576 400 mWalk
- The Centre Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report July 2022, over 3 years old · Phone 01455 632277 400 mWalk
- Station View Health Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report June 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01455 635362 650 mWalk
- The Burbage Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report September 2026 · Phone 01455 634879 1.3 kmCycle
Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Hinckley safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 2,784 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Hinckley 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
- 250 September 2025
- 242 October 2025
- 219 November 2025
- 221 December 2025
- 234 January 2026
- 210 February 2026
- 241 March 2026
- 213 April 2026
- 244 May 2026
- 201 June 2026
- 264 July 2026
- 245 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: drugs 80, other crime 49, robbery 28, bicycle theft 26, theft from the person 19, possession of weapons 14.
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 postcodeSource: 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 Hinckley?
- 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 1,068 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 Hinckley
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.
- Tell Hinckley and Bosworth about council tax Council tax, on hinckley-bosworth.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Hinckley
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Check your bin day on BinDayBuddy, which reads the council's own collection system
Hinckley postcodes
1,068 postcodes in use in Hinckley, by district:
That district is in the LE postcode area.
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Places near Hinckley
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Hinckley's £252,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Questions about Hinckley
- What is it like to live in Hinckley?
- Homes sold for a typical £252,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 1.2% on the 12 months before. At 813 of the 980 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 5 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 12 of its 1,068 postcodes. It has at least 6 primary schools, 2 secondary schools and 2 all-through schools at its postcodes. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Hinckley, 500 metres 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 Hinckley?
- Hinckley is covered by postcode district LE10, across 1,068 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- Which council is Hinckley in?
- Hinckley is in the Hinckley and Bosworth council area, and Leicestershire is its county council. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- Who is the MP for Hinckley?
- Hinckley 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 Hinckley?
- Homes in Hinckley sold for a typical £252,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 693 sales, down 1.2% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
- What schools are in Hinckley?
- In Hinckley, primary schools at its postcodes include St Mary's Church of England Primary School, Hinckley, Aurora Charnwood School and Saint Peter's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy; secondary schools at its postcodes include Aurora Charnwood School, Foxglove School and Hastings High School. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
- Does Hinckley have a railway station?
- Yes: Hinckley is 500 metres from the centre point of the postcodes in Hinckley, in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
- What broadband can you get in Hinckley?
- Ofcom reports on 980 of the 1,068 postcodes in Hinckley. At 813 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s). Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
- Is Hinckley at risk of flooding?
- 12 of the 1,068 postcodes in Hinckley 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 5 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 Hinckley?
- 71 of the 1,068 postcodes now in use in Hinckley came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 41 of the 892 homes sold in Hinckley were newly built (5%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the LE10 district, 12%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
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