Schools
135 open schools are in scope, including 83 primary and 17 secondary schools. Castle Mead Academy is the nearest published school at 394 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LE1 9FD
Castle · Leicester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Castle
- Local authority
- Leicester
- Constituency
- Leicester South
- Postcode district
- LE1
- Postcode sector
- LE1 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE1 9FD
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1982
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE1
- Postcode sector
- LE1 9
- Latitude
- 52.636044
- Longitude
- -1.139953
- British National Grid easting
- 458,300
- British National Grid northing
- 304,600
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
- E00169500
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 135
- Primary
- 83
- Secondary
- 17
- 394 m
Castle Mead Academy
Free schools
- 470 m
De Montfort University
Higher education institutions
- 686 m
Slater Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 17,319
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 5,612
- Public order 2,215
- Shoplifting 1,959
- Anti social behaviour 1,408
- Other theft 1,407
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- Postcode sector residents
- Not available
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 not available.
GP practices
52
within 5 km straight-line
INCLUSION HEALTHCARE
CHARLES BERRY HOUSE, 45 EAST BOND STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 4SX
ODS code C82670
297 m
LEICESTER CITY ASSIST PRACTICE
CHARLES BERRY HOUSE, 45 EAST BOND STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 4SX
ODS code Y00344
297 m
BOWLING GREEN STREET SURGERY
29-31 BOWLING GREEN STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 6AS
ODS code Y02686
572 m
FOSSE MEDICAL CENTRE (DR H MUKADAM)
FOSSE MEDICAL CENTRE, 334 FOSSE ROAD NORTH, LEICESTER, LE3 5RR
ODS code C82086
829 m
DE MONTFORT SURGERY
STUDENT HEALTH CENTRE, 100 MILL LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 7HX
ODS code C82020
833 m
DR S SHAFI
5 BRITON STREET, LEICESTER, LE3 0AA
ODS code C82620
1.1 km
WESTEND MEDICAL PRACTICE
FOSSE ROAD SOUTH, LEICESTER, LE3 0LP
ODS code C82639
1.1 km
DR U K ROY
FOSSE FAMILY PRACTICE, 16 FOSSE ROAD SOUTH, LEICESTER, LE3 0QD
ODS code C82114
1.1 km
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
GROBY ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE (ID PATCHETT)
9 GROBY ROAD, LEICESTER, LE3 9ED
ODS code C82005
1.2 km
WALNUT ST MED CTR
110 WALNUT STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 7LE
ODS code C82662
1.3 km
DR R KAPUR & PARTNERS
ST. PETERS HEALTH CENTRE, SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82659
1.5 km
SHEFA MEDICAL PRACTICE
SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82080
1.5 km
ST PETER'S MED CENTRE (MANSINGH & MEHRA)
SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82660
1.5 km
NARBOROUGH ROAD SURGERY
193 NARBOROUGH ROAD, NARBOROUGH, LEICESTER, LE3 0PE
ODS code C82119
1.6 km
HIGHFIELDS SURGERY (R WADHWA)
25 SEVERN STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0NN
ODS code C82116
1.6 km
BRANDON SURGERY DR R KAPUR & PARTNER
BELGRAVE HEALTH CENTRE, 52 BRANDON STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6AW
ODS code C82671
1.8 km
COSSINGTON PARK SURGERY
BELGRAVE MEDICAL CENTRE, 52 BRANDON STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6AW
ODS code C82107
1.8 km
COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE (ZS OSAMA)
MOAT CENTRE, MELBOURNE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 0GU
ODS code C82643
1.8 km
Showing 20 of 52 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
St Nicholas Circle
BCT · Leicester
- 0.1 miles
St Nicholas Circle
BCT · Leicester
- 0.1 miles
St Nicholas Circle
BCT · Leicester
- 0.1 miles
St Nicholas Circle
BCT · Leicester
- 0.1 miles
Causeway Lane
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
17,319 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,443.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 5,612 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.