Schools
25 open schools are in scope, including 23 primary and 2 secondary schools. Overseal Primary School is the nearest published school at 480 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DE12 6BD
Ashby Woulds · North West Leicestershire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Ashby Woulds
- Local authority
- North West Leicestershire
- Constituency
- North West Leicestershire
- Postcode district
- DE12
- Postcode sector
- DE12 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DE12 6BD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 1996
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DE
- Postcode district
- DE12
- Postcode sector
- DE12 6
- Latitude
- 52.738836
- Longitude
- -1.550994
- British National Grid easting
- 430,412
- British National Grid northing
- 315,782
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- North West Leicestershire · E07000134
- Electoral ward
- Ashby Woulds · E05010096
- Parish or community
- E04005543
- Westminster constituency
- North West Leicestershire · E14001404
- Output area
- E00187509
- Lower layer super output area
- North West Leicestershire 008A · E01025950
- Middle layer super output area
- North West Leicestershire 008 · E02005404
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore DE12
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 25
- Primary
- 23
- Secondary
- 2
- 480 m
Overseal Primary School
Community school
- 2.2 km
Albert Village Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.5 km
Donisthorpe Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 240
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 95
- Anti social behaviour 28
- Public order 27
- Burglary 23
- Criminal damage and arson 20
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 1
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 1.0
- DE12 6 residents
- 8,637
1 female, 0 male
Age bands in DE12 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.5%
1,395 residents
805 residents
1,993 residents
2,586 residents
1,854 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DE12 6 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 50%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 50%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 50%
- Gigabit-capable
- 50%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
6
within 5 km
GRESLEYDALE HEALTHCARE CENTRE
GLAMORGAN WAY, CHURCH GRESLEY, SWADLINCOTE, DE11 9JT
ODS code C81114
3.0 km
WOODVILLE SURGERY
THE SURGERY, 71 BURTON ROAD, WOODVILLE, SWADLINCOTE, DE11 7JE
ODS code C81060
3.7 km
HEARTWOOD MEDICAL PRACTICE
SWADLINCOTE HEALTH CENTRE, CIVIC WAY, SWADLINCOTE, DE11 0AE
ODS code Y01812
4.1 km
SWADLINCOTE SURGERY
DARKLANDS ROAD, SWADLINCOTE, DE11 0PP
ODS code C81032
4.2 km
MEASHAM MEDICAL UNIT
HIGH STREET, MEASHAM, SWADLINCOTE, DE12 7HR
ODS code C82017
4.7 km
CASTLE MEDICAL GROUP
ASCEBI HOUSE, 118 BURTON ROAD, ASHBY-DE-LA-ZOUCH, LE65 2LP
ODS code C82014
4.8 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Rosedene View
BCT · Overseal
- 0.2 miles
Rosedene View
BCT · Overseal
- 0.2 miles
The Navigation
BCT · Moira
- 0.3 miles
Stanleigh Road
BCT · Overseal
- 0.3 miles
Bath Yard
BCT · Moira
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North West Leicestershire 008A, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
4 of 10
Overall England rank
11,347 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
240 published events cover 12 months, averaging 20 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 95 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.