Property market
The five-year median is £378,000 from 1 recorded sale in LE1 2DE. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Leicester is £228,618 in June 2026, up 1.7% year on year.
LE1 2DE
Castle · Leicester · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE1 2DE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 February 1984
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE1
- Postcode sector
- LE1 2
- Latitude
- 52.638727
- Longitude
- -1.126970
- British National Grid easting
- 459,175
- British National Grid northing
- 304,909
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Leicester · E06000016
- Electoral ward
- Castle · E05010463
- Parish or community
- E43000015
- Westminster constituency
- Leicester South · E14001327
- Output area
- E00178591
- Lower layer super output area
- Leicester 041E · E01034022
- Middle layer super output area
- Leicester 041 · E02006851
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 LE1
Property
7 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 42, Crafton Street West, Leicester, LE1 2DE | 4 June 2025 | £378,000 |
| 1, Flat 1, Crafton Street West, Leicester, LE1 2DE | 9 November 2007 | £20,000 |
| 1, Flat 1, Crafton Street West, Leicester, LE1 2DE | 8 November 2007 | £85,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 139
- Primary
- 84
- Secondary
- 19
- 528 m
Taylor Road Primary School
Academy converter
- 539 m
Darul Madinah Leicester Ltd
Other independent school
- 754 m
Charnwood Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 16,218
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 5,336
- Public order 2,096
- Shoplifting 1,938
- Anti social behaviour 1,406
- Other theft 1,261
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 11
- Postcode households
- 9
- Residents per household
- 1.2
- LE1 2 residents
- 5,066
4 female, 7 male
Age bands in LE1 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 29.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 16.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 20.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 7.4%
1,590 residents
903 residents
1,461 residents
1,113 residents
406 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LE1 2 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 80%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 80%
- Gigabit-capable
- 80%
- 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
54
within 5 km
INCLUSION HEALTHCARE
CHARLES BERRY HOUSE, 45 EAST BOND STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 4SX
ODS code C82670
638 m
LEICESTER CITY ASSIST PRACTICE
CHARLES BERRY HOUSE, 45 EAST BOND STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 4SX
ODS code Y00344
638 m
BOWLING GREEN STREET SURGERY
29-31 BOWLING GREEN STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 6AS
ODS code Y02686
756 m
DR R KAPUR & PARTNERS
ST. PETERS HEALTH CENTRE, SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82659
1.0 km
SHEFA MEDICAL PRACTICE
SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82080
1.0 km
ST PETER'S MED CENTRE (MANSINGH & MEHRA)
SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82660
1.0 km
BRANDON SURGERY DR R KAPUR & PARTNER
BELGRAVE HEALTH CENTRE, 52 BRANDON STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6AW
ODS code C82671
1.1 km
COSSINGTON PARK SURGERY
BELGRAVE MEDICAL CENTRE, 52 BRANDON STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6AW
ODS code C82107
1.1 km
COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE (ZS OSAMA)
MOAT CENTRE, MELBOURNE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 0GU
ODS code C82643
1.2 km
HIGHFIELDS SURGERY (R WADHWA)
25 SEVERN STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0NN
ODS code C82116
1.2 km
SPINNEY HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
143 ST SAVIOURS ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3HX
ODS code C82024
1.2 km
HERON GP PRACTICE
MERLYN VAZ H&S CARE CTR, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code Y02469
1.3 km
HIGHFIELDS MEDICAL CENTRE
THE MERLYN VAZ CENTRE, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code C82642
1.3 km
THE CHARNWOOD PRACTICE
MERLYN VAZ HEALTH CENTRE, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code C82667
1.3 km
DE MONTFORT SURGERY
STUDENT HEALTH CENTRE, 100 MILL LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 7HX
ODS code C82020
1.5 km
EAST PARK MEDICAL CENTRE (RP PANDYA)
264-266 EAST PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 5FD
ODS code C82037
1.6 km
THE PRACTICE-SAYEED
352 EAST PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 5AY
ODS code C82060
1.6 km
AL-WAQAS MEDICAL CENTRE
91 ST PETERS ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 1DJ
ODS code C82099
1.7 km
DR B MODI
122 CANON STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6NL
ODS code C82084
1.7 km
GROBY ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE (ID PATCHETT)
9 GROBY ROAD, LEICESTER, LE3 9ED
ODS code C82005
1.7 km
Showing 20 of 54 matching practices.
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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Humberstone Gate
BCT · Leicester
- 0.1 miles
Humberstone Gate
BCT · Leicester
- 0.1 miles
Humberstone Gate
BCT · Leicester
- 0.1 miles
Humberstone Gate
BCT · Leicester
- 0.1 miles
Ann Street
BCT · Leicester
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Leicester 041E, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
4,919 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
- 4
- 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
Schools
139 open schools are in scope, including 84 primary and 19 secondary schools. Taylor Road Primary School is the nearest published school at 528 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
16,218 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,351.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 5,336 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.