Property market
The five-year median is £131,500 from 2 recorded sales in LE1 2DS. 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 2DS
Wycliffe · Leicester · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE1 2DS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE1
- Postcode sector
- LE1 2
- Latitude
- 52.642054
- Longitude
- -1.125795
- British National Grid easting
- 459,250
- British National Grid northing
- 305,280
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Leicester · E06000016
- Electoral ward
- Wycliffe · E05010478
- Parish or community
- E43000015
- Westminster constituency
- Leicester South · E14001327
- Output area
- E00178586
- Lower layer super output area
- Leicester 018E · E01013754
- Middle layer super output area
- Leicester 018 · E02002844
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
8 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 33, Russell Square, Leicester, LE1 2DS | 28 October 2022 | £120,000 |
| 1, Russell Square, Leicester, LE1 2DS | 30 September 2022 | £143,000 |
| 21, Russell Square, Leicester, LE1 2DS | 12 June 2015 | £66,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 141
- Primary
- 85
- Secondary
- 20
- 245 m
Taylor Road Primary School
Academy converter
- 465 m
Darul Madinah Leicester Ltd
Other independent school
- 669 m
Catherine Junior School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 14,261
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 4,632
- Public order 1,727
- Shoplifting 1,677
- Anti social behaviour 1,297
- Other theft 1,152
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 106
- Postcode households
- 22
- Residents per household
- 4.8
- LE1 2 residents
- 5,066
49 female, 57 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 2.1% 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
53
within 5 km
BRANDON SURGERY DR R KAPUR & PARTNER
BELGRAVE HEALTH CENTRE, 52 BRANDON STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6AW
ODS code C82671
713 m
COSSINGTON PARK SURGERY
BELGRAVE MEDICAL CENTRE, 52 BRANDON STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6AW
ODS code C82107
713 m
INCLUSION HEALTHCARE
CHARLES BERRY HOUSE, 45 EAST BOND STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 4SX
ODS code C82670
874 m
LEICESTER CITY ASSIST PRACTICE
CHARLES BERRY HOUSE, 45 EAST BOND STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 4SX
ODS code Y00344
874 m
BOWLING GREEN STREET SURGERY
29-31 BOWLING GREEN STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 6AS
ODS code Y02686
1.1 km
HERON GP PRACTICE
MERLYN VAZ H&S CARE CTR, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code Y02469
1.2 km
HIGHFIELDS MEDICAL CENTRE
THE MERLYN VAZ CENTRE, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code C82642
1.2 km
THE CHARNWOOD PRACTICE
MERLYN VAZ HEALTH CENTRE, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code C82667
1.2 km
SPINNEY HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
143 ST SAVIOURS ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3HX
ODS code C82024
1.2 km
DR R KAPUR & PARTNERS
ST. PETERS HEALTH CENTRE, SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82659
1.3 km
SHEFA MEDICAL PRACTICE
SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82080
1.3 km
ST PETER'S MED CENTRE (MANSINGH & MEHRA)
SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82660
1.3 km
BROADHURST STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
10 BROADHURST STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6NF
ODS code C82651
1.4 km
COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE (ZS OSAMA)
MOAT CENTRE, MELBOURNE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 0GU
ODS code C82643
1.4 km
DR B MODI
122 CANON STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6NL
ODS code C82084
1.4 km
HIGHFIELDS SURGERY (R WADHWA)
25 SEVERN STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0NN
ODS code C82116
1.5 km
GROBY ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE (ID PATCHETT)
9 GROBY ROAD, LEICESTER, LE3 9ED
ODS code C82005
1.7 km
EAST PARK MEDICAL CENTRE (RP PANDYA)
264-266 EAST PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 5FD
ODS code C82037
1.7 km
THE PRACTICE-SAYEED
352 EAST PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 5AY
ODS code C82060
1.8 km
DE MONTFORT SURGERY
STUDENT HEALTH CENTRE, 100 MILL LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 7HX
ODS code C82020
1.8 km
Showing 20 of 53 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
George Street
BCT · Leicester
- 0.1 miles
Kashmir Road
BCT · Leicester
- 0.1 miles
Leicester College
BCT · Belgrave
- 0.1 miles
George Street
BCT · Leicester
- 0.1 miles
Leicester College
BCT · Belgrave
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Leicester 018E, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
2,947 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
- 1
- Medium risk addresses
- 5
- Low risk addresses
- 16
- 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
141 open schools are in scope, including 85 primary and 20 secondary schools. Taylor Road Primary School is the nearest published school at 245 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
14,261 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,188.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 4,632 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.