Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 1 secondary schools. Brooke Hill Academy is the nearest published school at 928 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LE15 8AA
Oakham South · Rutland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Oakham South
- Local authority
- Rutland
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford
- Postcode district
- LE15
- Postcode sector
- LE15 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE15 8AA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE15
- Postcode sector
- LE15 8
- Latitude
- 52.658778
- Longitude
- -0.723653
- British National Grid easting
- 486,427
- British National Grid northing
- 307,546
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Rutland · E06000017
- Electoral ward
- Oakham South · E05012643
- Parish or community
- E04012676
- Westminster constituency
- Rutland and Stamford · E14001458
- Output area
- E00069627
- Lower layer super output area
- Rutland 003D · E01013803
- Middle layer super output area
- Rutland 003 · E02002865
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 LE15
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 10
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 1
- 928 m
Brooke Hill Academy
Academy converter
- 929 m
The Shires at Oakham
Other independent special school
- 1.3 km
Oakham School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 456
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 138
- Shoplifting 99
- Anti social behaviour 67
- Criminal damage and arson 38
- Public order 32
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 6
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- LE15 8 residents
- 6,140
4 female, 2 male
Age bands in LE15 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 28.5%
830 residents
520 residents
1,167 residents
1,910 residents
1,765 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LE15 8 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
1
within 5 km
OAKHAM MEDICAL PRACTICE
COLD OVERTON ROAD, OAKHAM, LE15 6NT
ODS code C82010
1.6 km
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
- 0.4 miles
Hambleton Road
BCT · Egleton
- 0.4 miles
Hambleton Road
BCT · Egleton
- 0.7 miles
Council Offices
BCT · Oakham
- 0.7 miles
Council Offices
BCT · Oakham
- 0.7 miles
Oakham Library
BCT · Oakham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Rutland 003D, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
29,691 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
Recorded crime
456 published events cover 12 months, averaging 38 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 138 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.