Property market
The five-year median is £235,000 from 1 recorded sale in LE1 6HU. 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 6HU
Castle · Leicester · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE1 6HU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 October 2007
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE1
- Postcode sector
- LE1 6
- Latitude
- 52.631172
- Longitude
- -1.131434
- British National Grid easting
- 458,883
- British National Grid northing
- 304,065
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
- E00169536
- Lower layer super output area
- Leicester 041D · E01032873
- 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
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 17, Wellington Street, Leicester, LE1 6HU | 16 September 2024 | £235,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 135
- Primary
- 81
- Secondary
- 19
- 256 m
Beauchamp City Sixth Form
Free schools 16 to 19
- 436 m
The Children's Hospital School
Foundation special school
- 541 m
De Montfort University
Higher education institutions
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 17,439
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 5,716
- Public order 2,206
- Shoplifting 1,998
- Anti social behaviour 1,455
- Other theft 1,390
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LE1 6 residents
- 2,804
Age bands in LE1 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 4.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 51.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 30%
- Age 45 to 64
- 9.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 4.2%
130 residents
1,367 residents
800 residents
260 residents
112 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
54
within 5 km straight-line
BOWLING GREEN STREET SURGERY
29-31 BOWLING GREEN STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 6AS
ODS code Y02686
237 m
DE MONTFORT SURGERY
STUDENT HEALTH CENTRE, 100 MILL LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 7HX
ODS code C82020
720 m
INCLUSION HEALTHCARE
CHARLES BERRY HOUSE, 45 EAST BOND STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 4SX
ODS code C82670
756 m
LEICESTER CITY ASSIST PRACTICE
CHARLES BERRY HOUSE, 45 EAST BOND STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 4SX
ODS code Y00344
756 m
DR R KAPUR & PARTNERS
ST. PETERS HEALTH CENTRE, SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82659
837 m
SHEFA MEDICAL PRACTICE
SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82080
837 m
ST PETER'S MED CENTRE (MANSINGH & MEHRA)
SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82660
837 m
WALNUT ST MED CTR
110 WALNUT STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 7LE
ODS code C82662
881 m
HIGHFIELDS SURGERY (R WADHWA)
25 SEVERN STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0NN
ODS code C82116
891 m
DR S SHAFI
5 BRITON STREET, LEICESTER, LE3 0AA
ODS code C82620
1.2 km
COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE (ZS OSAMA)
MOAT CENTRE, MELBOURNE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 0GU
ODS code C82643
1.2 km
WESTCOTES GP SURGERY (ONE)
2 WESTCOTES DRIVE, LEICESTER, LE3 0QR
ODS code C82059
1.4 km
WESTCOTES GP SURGERY (TWO)
2 WESTCOTES DRIVE, LEICESTER, LE3 0QR
ODS code C82653
1.4 km
DR U K ROY
FOSSE FAMILY PRACTICE, 16 FOSSE ROAD SOUTH, LEICESTER, LE3 0QD
ODS code C82114
1.5 km
WESTEND MEDICAL PRACTICE
FOSSE ROAD SOUTH, LEICESTER, LE3 0LP
ODS code C82639
1.5 km
FOSSE MEDICAL CENTRE (DR H MUKADAM)
FOSSE MEDICAL CENTRE, 334 FOSSE ROAD NORTH, LEICESTER, LE3 5RR
ODS code C82086
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
1.6 km
SPINNEY HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
143 ST SAVIOURS ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3HX
ODS code C82024
1.7 km
NARBOROUGH ROAD SURGERY
193 NARBOROUGH ROAD, NARBOROUGH, LEICESTER, LE3 0PE
ODS code C82119
1.7 km
Showing 20 of 54 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Welford Place
BCT · Leicester
- 0.1 miles
Welford Place
BCT · Leicester
- 0.1 miles
Welford Place
BCT · Leicester
- 0.1 miles
Pocklingtons Walk
BCT · Leicester
- 0.2 miles
Town Hall Square
BCT · Leicester
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Leicester 041D, 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
4,270 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 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.
Evidence in context
Schools
135 open schools are in scope, including 81 primary and 19 secondary schools. Beauchamp City Sixth Form is the nearest published school at 256 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
17,439 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,453.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 5,716 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.