Property market
The five-year median is £1,235,000 from 2 recorded sales in LE1 5XW. 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 5XW
Castle · Leicester · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE1 5XW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE1
- Postcode sector
- LE1 5
- Latitude
- 52.629971
- Longitude
- -1.135610
- British National Grid easting
- 458,602
- British National Grid northing
- 303,928
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
- E00178635
- Lower layer super output area
- Leicester 041B · E01032868
- 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
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 72, Oxford Street, Leicester, LE1 5XW | 27 June 2025 | £1,900,000 |
| 44, Oxford Street, Leicester, LE1 5XW | 10 January 2023 | £570,000 |
| 72, Oxford Street, Leicester, LE1 5XW | 2 May 2019 | £2,750,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 134
- Primary
- 81
- Secondary
- 18
- 244 m
The Children's Hospital School
Foundation special school
- 327 m
De Montfort University
Higher education institutions
- 541 m
Beauchamp City Sixth Form
Free schools 16 to 19
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 18,170
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 5,885
- Public order 2,348
- Shoplifting 2,035
- Anti social behaviour 1,447
- Other theft 1,425
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 270
- Postcode households
- 177
- Residents per household
- 1.5
- LE1 5 residents
- 4,150
100 female, 170 male
Age bands in LE1 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 1.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 74.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 5%
- Age 65 and over
- 1.5%
88 residents
3,684 residents
844 residents
249 residents
72 residents
This postcode contained 6.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LE1 5 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 straight-line
BOWLING GREEN STREET SURGERY
29-31 BOWLING GREEN STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 6AS
ODS code Y02686
382 m
DE MONTFORT SURGERY
STUDENT HEALTH CENTRE, 100 MILL LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 7HX
ODS code C82020
408 m
WALNUT ST MED CTR
110 WALNUT STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 7LE
ODS code C82662
631 m
INCLUSION HEALTHCARE
CHARLES BERRY HOUSE, 45 EAST BOND STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 4SX
ODS code C82670
820 m
LEICESTER CITY ASSIST PRACTICE
CHARLES BERRY HOUSE, 45 EAST BOND STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 4SX
ODS code Y00344
820 m
DR S SHAFI
5 BRITON STREET, LEICESTER, LE3 0AA
ODS code C82620
897 m
WESTCOTES GP SURGERY (ONE)
2 WESTCOTES DRIVE, LEICESTER, LE3 0QR
ODS code C82059
1.1 km
WESTCOTES GP SURGERY (TWO)
2 WESTCOTES DRIVE, LEICESTER, LE3 0QR
ODS code C82653
1.1 km
DR R KAPUR & PARTNERS
ST. PETERS HEALTH CENTRE, SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82659
1.1 km
SHEFA MEDICAL PRACTICE
SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82080
1.1 km
ST PETER'S MED CENTRE (MANSINGH & MEHRA)
SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82660
1.1 km
HIGHFIELDS SURGERY (R WADHWA)
25 SEVERN STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0NN
ODS code C82116
1.2 km
DR U K ROY
FOSSE FAMILY PRACTICE, 16 FOSSE ROAD SOUTH, LEICESTER, LE3 0QD
ODS code C82114
1.2 km
WESTEND MEDICAL PRACTICE
FOSSE ROAD SOUTH, LEICESTER, LE3 0LP
ODS code C82639
1.2 km
FOSSE MEDICAL CENTRE (DR H MUKADAM)
FOSSE MEDICAL CENTRE, 334 FOSSE ROAD NORTH, LEICESTER, LE3 5RR
ODS code C82086
1.3 km
NARBOROUGH ROAD SURGERY
193 NARBOROUGH ROAD, NARBOROUGH, LEICESTER, LE3 0PE
ODS code C82119
1.4 km
COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE (ZS OSAMA)
MOAT CENTRE, MELBOURNE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 0GU
ODS code C82643
1.5 km
VICTORIA PARK HEALTH CENTRE
203 VICTORIA PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 1XD
ODS code C82124
1.6 km
AL-WAQAS MEDICAL CENTRE
91 ST PETERS ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 1DJ
ODS code C82099
1.8 km
GROBY ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE (ID PATCHETT)
9 GROBY ROAD, LEICESTER, LE3 9ED
ODS code C82005
1.9 km
Showing 20 of 53 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Bonners Lane
BCT · Leicester
- 0.1 miles
Welford Place
BCT · Leicester
- 0.1 miles
Henshaw Street
BCT · Leicester
- 0.1 miles
Welford Place
BCT · Leicester
- 0.2 miles
Welford Place
BCT · Leicester
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Leicester 041B, 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
12,936 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 2 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
- 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
Schools
134 open schools are in scope, including 81 primary and 18 secondary schools. The Children's Hospital School is the nearest published school at 244 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
18,170 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,514.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 5,885 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.