Market Harborough
Market Harborough is covered by postcode districts LE16 and LE94. It is in the Harborough council area, Leicestershire.
Every postcode in Market Harborough, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 4
- At medium risk at worst: 5
- At low risk at worst: 44
- At very low risk only: 7
- Not on the at-risk list: 528
Of the 588 postcodes in Market Harborough that ONS places, 4 have a home or business at high risk, 5 are at medium risk at worst, 44 are at low risk at worst, 7 are at very low risk only and 528 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 52.4780, longitude -0.9209. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. 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.
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 Market Harborough?
Homes sold for a typical £310,000 in the 12 months to August 2026. At 416 of the 518 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 85 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 60 of its 588 postcodes. It has 6 primary schools and 3 secondary schools at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Market Harborough, 800 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.
What do homes cost in Market Harborough?
Homes in Market Harborough sold for a typical £310,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 371 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £315,000 from 494 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £432,500 138 sales
- Semi-detached £306,000 101 sales
- Terraced £255,000 86 sales
- Flat or maisonette £170,000 46 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole LE16 district, Market Harborough's main postcode district: a typical £340,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Market Harborough: 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.
Are new homes being built in Market Harborough?
46 of the 588 postcodes now in use in Market Harborough came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 36 of the 494 homes sold in Market Harborough were newly built (7%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the LE16 district, 33%.
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 Market Harborough | Across the LE16 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to August 2026 | 1 of 371 (Under 1%) | 45 of 562 (8%) |
| The 12 months to August 2025 | 36 of 494 (7%) | 318 of 957 (33%) |
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.
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What broadband can you get in Market Harborough?
Ofcom reports on 518 of the 588 postcodes in Market Harborough. At 416 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, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.
Is Market Harborough at risk of flooding?
60 of the 588 postcodes in Market Harborough 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 85 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 flood risk, published 6 July 2026.
Which schools are in Market Harborough?
The open schools at the postcodes in Market Harborough. 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. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.
Primary
- St Joseph's Catholic Voluntary Academy300 m 190 pupils, 210 places
- Market Harborough Church of England Academy500 m 392 pupils, 415 places
- Little Bowden School850 m 368 pupils, 420 places
- Ridgeway Primary Academy1.1 km 234 pupils, 315 places
- Farndon Fields Primary School1.4 km 410 pupils, 420 places
- Meadowdale Primary School1.5 km 389 pupils, 420 places
Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.
How far is the station from Market Harborough?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Market Harborough is Market Harborough Rail Station, 800 m away in a straight line.
- Market Harborough Rail Station Railway station 800 mWalk
- Corby Rail Station Railway station 15.8 kmDrive
- Kettering Rail Station Railway station 15.9 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: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
Which GP surgeries are in Market Harborough?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Market Harborough. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Market Harborough Med.ctr Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01858 464242 300 mWalk
Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
Is Market Harborough safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 1,572 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Market Harborough 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
- 128 September 2025
- 139 October 2025
- 123 November 2025
- 117 December 2025
- 105 January 2026
- 126 February 2026
- 145 March 2026
- 114 April 2026
- 127 May 2026
- 153 June 2026
- 139 July 2026
- 156 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: drugs 29, other crime 25, theft from the person 17, bicycle theft 17, possession of weapons 15, robbery 8.
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 to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.
Who runs Market Harborough?
- District, borough or city council
- Harborough
- County council
- Leicestershire
- Parliamentary constituency
- Harborough, Oadby and Wigston
- Police force area
- Leicestershire
- Region
- East Midlands
- Country
- England
- MP
- Neil O'Brien (Conservative)
All 588 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.
Moving to Market Harborough
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.
- Tell Harborough about council tax Council tax, on harborough.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Market Harborough
- 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
Market Harborough postcodes
588 postcodes in use in Market Harborough, by district:
Those districts are all in the LE postcode area.
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Places near Market Harborough
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Market Harborough's £310,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about Market Harborough
- What is the postcode for Market Harborough?
- Postcode districts LE16 and LE94, with 588 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- Which council is Market Harborough in?
- Harborough, with Leicestershire as its county council. Source: ONS.
- Who is the MP for Market Harborough?
- Neil O'Brien (Conservative), for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
- How much are houses in Market Harborough?
- A typical £310,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, from 371 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in Market Harborough?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include St Joseph's Catholic Voluntary Academy, Market Harborough Church of England Academy and Little Bowden School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Welland Park Academy, Brooke House College and The Robert Smyth Academy. Source: Department for Education.
- Does Market Harborough have a railway station?
- Yes: Market Harborough station, 800 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- What broadband can you get in Market Harborough?
- Ofcom reports on 518 of the 588 postcodes in Market Harborough. At 416 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s). Source: Ofcom.
- Is Market Harborough at risk of flooding?
- 60 of the 588 postcodes in Market Harborough 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 85 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Market Harborough?
- 46 of the 588 postcodes now in use in Market Harborough came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 36 of the 494 homes sold in Market Harborough were newly built (7%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the LE16 district, 33%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.
Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Environment Agency flood risk
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools
- Department for Transport: NaPTAN
- NHS England: NHS GP practices
- Care Quality Commission
- data.police.uk: police.uk
- UK Parliament
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