Leicester
Leicester is covered by postcode districts LE1, LE2, LE3, LE4, LE5, LE7 and 5 more. It is mostly in the Leicester council area: 6,036 of its 7,017 postcodes. The others are in Blaby, Harborough, Charnwood and 1 other. 981 of its 7,017 postcodes are in Leicestershire. ONS lists no county for the other 6,036.
Every postcode in Leicester, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 145
- At medium risk at worst: 181
- At low risk at worst: 442
- At very low risk only: 64
- Not on the at-risk list: 6,185
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
Of the 7,017 postcodes in Leicester that ONS places, 145 have a home or business at high risk, 181 are at medium risk at worst, 442 are at low risk at worst, 64 are at very low risk only and 6,185 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 52.6336, longitude -1.1302. 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
145 postcodes here have a home or business at high risk. These are the 12 with the most homes and businesses at that 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
- 45 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. LE5 3NX, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 41 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. LE3 5JF, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 32 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. LE2 7PQ, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 21 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. LE3 6AG, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 17 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. LE4 5BG, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 14 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. LE4 5PW, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
What is it like to live in Leicester?
Homes sold for a typical £250,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, no change on the 12 months before. At 6,036 of the 6,639 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 3,988 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 832 of its 7,017 postcodes. It has at least 7 primary schools, 3 secondary schools and 1 all-through school at its postcodes. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Leicester, 400 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 Leicester?
Homes in Leicester sold for a typical £250,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 2,349 sales, no change on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached £370,000 383 sales
- Semi-detached £269,950 886 sales
- Terraced £220,000 841 sales
- Flat or maisonette £124,000 239 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole LE3 district, Leicester's main postcode district: a typical £250,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Leicester: 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 Leicester?
278 of the 7,017 postcodes now in use in Leicester came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 18 of the 2,889 homes sold in Leicester were newly built (Under 1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the LE3 district, 1%.
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 Leicester | Across the LE3 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to August 2026 | 2 of 2,349 (Under 1%) | 0 of 811 (0%) |
| The 12 months to August 2025 | 18 of 2,889 (Under 1%) | 10 of 998 (1%) |
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 Leicester?
Ofcom reports on 6,639 of the 7,017 postcodes in Leicester. At 6,036 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 2 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 Leicester at risk of flooding?
832 of the 7,017 postcodes in Leicester 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 3,988 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 Leicester?
The open schools at the postcodes in Leicester (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
- Sparkenhoe Community Primary School800 m 450 pupils, 480 places
- The Children's Hospital School850 m
- Leicester Therapeutic School850 m
- Highfields Primary School950 m 352 pupils, 388 places
- Al-Islamia Institute for Education950 m 103 pupils, 141 places
- Charnwood Primary School1.0 km 400 pupils, 420 places
- Uplands Infant School1.1 km 436 pupils, 460 places
- Uplands Junior L.E.A.D. Academy1.1 km 447 pupils, 480 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 Leicester?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Leicester is Leicester Rail Station, 400 m away in a straight line.
- Leicester Rail Station Railway station 400 mWalk
- South Wigston Rail Station Railway station 5.7 kmDrive
- Syston Rail Station Railway station 7.5 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 Leicester?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Leicester, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Bowling Green Street Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report July 2022, over 3 years old · Phone 0116 204 7240 200 mWalk
- Inclusion Healthcare Care Quality Commission rating: Outstanding CQC report December 2025 · Phone 0116 221 2780 600 mWalk
- Leicester City Assist Practice Phone 0116 294 6305 600 mWalk
- Dr R Kapur & Partners Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report March 2024 · Phone 0116 295 1258 800 mWalk
- Shefa Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report October 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 0116 295 7835 800 mWalk
Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Leicester safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 18,054 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Leicester 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
- 1,405 September 2025
- 1,487 October 2025
- 1,428 November 2025
- 1,435 December 2025
- 1,558 January 2026
- 1,357 February 2026
- 1,579 March 2026
- 1,449 April 2026
- 1,476 May 2026
- 1,535 June 2026
- 1,637 July 2026
- 1,708 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: burglary 479, robbery 304, bicycle theft 296, theft from the person 269, possession of weapons 215, other crime 207.
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 Leicester?
- Councils
- Leicester (6,036), Blaby (798), Harborough (152) and 2 others
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Leicester South (2,193), Leicester West (2,097), Leicester East (1,746) and 5 others
- Police force area
- Leicestershire
- Region
- East Midlands
- Country
- England
Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources
Moving to Leicester
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of Leicester is in Leicester; near its edge, check which council a postcode is in.
- Tell Leicester about council tax Council tax, on leicester.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Leicester
- 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
Leicester postcodes
7,017 postcodes in use in Leicester, by district:
Those districts are all in the LE postcode area.
Check a Leicester postcode
Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.
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Places near Leicester
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Leicester's £250,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Questions about Leicester
- What is it like to live in Leicester?
- Homes sold for a typical £250,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, no change on the 12 months before. At 6,036 of the 6,639 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 3,988 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 832 of its 7,017 postcodes. It has at least 7 primary schools, 3 secondary schools and 1 all-through school at its postcodes. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Leicester, 400 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 Leicester?
- Leicester is covered by postcode districts LE1, LE2, LE3, LE4, LE5, LE7 and 5 more, across 7,017 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- How much are houses in Leicester?
- Homes in Leicester sold for a typical £250,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 2,349 sales, no change on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
- What schools are in Leicester?
- In Leicester, primary schools at its postcodes include Sparkenhoe Community Primary School, The Children's Hospital School and Leicester Therapeutic School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Moat Community College, The Children's Hospital School and Avicenna School. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
- Does Leicester have a railway station?
- Yes: Leicester is 400 metres from the centre point of the postcodes in Leicester, in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
- What broadband can you get in Leicester?
- Ofcom reports on 6,639 of the 7,017 postcodes in Leicester. At 6,036 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 2 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s). Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
- Is Leicester at risk of flooding?
- 832 of the 7,017 postcodes in Leicester 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 3,988 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 Leicester?
- 278 of the 7,017 postcodes now in use in Leicester came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 18 of the 2,889 homes sold in Leicester were newly built (Under 1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the LE3 district, 1%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
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