LE12 5 postcode sector in the LE12 district
LE12 5 is a sector of the LE12 district: every postcode that starts LE12 5. It has 228 postcodes in use, 7 of them large-user postcodes. A large-user postcode is one Royal Mail gives to a single address that gets a lot of mail.
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Every postcode in the LE12 5 sector, and which are new since 2020
- New since 2020: 31
- In use before 2020: 197
- Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together
Of the 228 postcodes in the LE12 5 sector that ONS places, 31 are new since 2020 and 197 were in use before 2020.
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. New since 2020 means it came into use in January 2020 or later. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 200 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.
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 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 5 newest postcodes
Where the new postcodes lie together
- 14 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. LE12 5FP, is the newest of them.
What do homes sell for in LE12 5?
Homes in LE12 5 sold for a typical £380,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 83 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £341,996 from 193 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £447,125 52 sales
- Semi-detached £288,750 24 sales
- Terraced £157,500 6 sales
- Flat or maisonette 1 sale, too few to price
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Standard sales of homes at market value at the postcodes that start LE12 5. A typical price is the median, the middle sale, given from 5 sales or more.
How we work this out: house prices by postcodeSource: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
Postcodes in LE12 5
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Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. Postcodes that have ended are not listed.
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Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0.
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