Schools
30 open schools are in scope, including 25 primary and 4 secondary schools. Moira Primary School is the nearest published school at 425 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DE12 6DR
Blackfordby · North West Leicestershire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Blackfordby
- 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 6DR
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1998
- Terminated
- 1 September 2000
- Postcode area
- DE
- Postcode district
- DE12
- Postcode sector
- DE12 6
- Latitude
- 52.745151
- Longitude
- -1.515554
- British National Grid easting
- 432,800
- British National Grid northing
- 316,500
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- North West Leicestershire · E07000134
- Electoral ward
- Blackfordby · E05010098
- Parish or community
- E04005543
- Westminster constituency
- North West Leicestershire · E14001404
- Output area
- E00131699
- Lower layer super output area
- North West Leicestershire 008B · E01025951
- 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
- 30
- Primary
- 25
- Secondary
- 4
- 425 m
Moira Primary School
Community school
- 1.7 km
Blackfordby St Margaret's Church of England Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 2.1 km
Ashby Hill Top Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 143
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 63
- Anti social behaviour 30
- Burglary 15
- Other theft 8
- Other crime 7
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DE12 6 residents
- 8,637
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
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.
GP practices
6
within 5 km straight-line
CASTLE MEDICAL GROUP
ASCEBI HOUSE, 118 BURTON ROAD, ASHBY-DE-LA-ZOUCH, LE65 2LP
ODS code C82014
2.3 km
WOODVILLE SURGERY
THE SURGERY, 71 BURTON ROAD, WOODVILLE, SWADLINCOTE, DE11 7JE
ODS code C81060
3.2 km
HEARTWOOD MEDICAL PRACTICE
SWADLINCOTE HEALTH CENTRE, CIVIC WAY, SWADLINCOTE, DE11 0AE
ODS code Y01812
4.4 km
GRESLEYDALE HEALTHCARE CENTRE
GLAMORGAN WAY, CHURCH GRESLEY, SWADLINCOTE, DE11 9JT
ODS code C81114
4.5 km
MEASHAM MEDICAL UNIT
HIGH STREET, MEASHAM, SWADLINCOTE, DE12 7HR
ODS code C82017
4.5 km
SWADLINCOTE SURGERY
DARKLANDS ROAD, SWADLINCOTE, DE11 0PP
ODS code C81032
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Woodlands Way
BCT · Norris Hill
- 0.0 miles
Blackfordby Lane
BCT · Norris Hill
- 0.1 miles
Electricity Sub-station
BCT · Norris Hill
- 0.1 miles
Electricity Sub-station
BCT · Norris Hill
- 0.1 miles
Woodlands Way
BCT · Norris Hill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North West Leicestershire 008B, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
23,767 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
143 published events cover 12 months, averaging 11.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 63 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.