Schools
14 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 2 secondary schools. Brooke House College is the nearest published school at 295 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LE16 7AA
Market Harborough-Great Bowden & Arden · Harborough · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Market Harborough
- Local authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- Harborough, Oadby and Wigston
- Postcode district
- LE16
- Postcode sector
- LE16 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE16 7AA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE16
- Postcode sector
- LE16 7
- Latitude
- 52.479195
- Longitude
- -0.921760
- British National Grid easting
- 473,326
- British National Grid northing
- 287,352
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Harborough · E07000131
- Electoral ward
- Market Harborough-Great Bowden & Arden · E05011975
- Parish or community
- E43000281
- Westminster constituency
- Harborough, Oadby and Wigston · E14001266
- Output area
- E00130879
- Lower layer super output area
- Harborough 008A · E01025795
- Middle layer super output area
- Harborough 008 · E02005374
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 LE16
Property
8 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 2, Church Street, Market Harborough, LE16 7AA | 4 February 2021 | £382,500 |
| 10, Church Street, Market Harborough, LE16 7AA | 9 December 2015 | £270,000 |
| 10, Church Street, Market Harborough, LE16 7AA | 6 November 2014 | £250,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 14
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 2
- 295 m
Brooke House College
Other independent school
- 307 m
The Divergent School Harborough
Other independent special school
- 348 m
St Joseph's Catholic Voluntary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,509
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 525
- Shoplifting 204
- Anti social behaviour 157
- Public order 139
- Criminal damage and arson 134
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 10
- Postcode households
- 7
- Residents per household
- 1.4
- LE16 7 residents
- 12,931
3 female, 7 male
Age bands in LE16 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.8%
2,026 residents
1,404 residents
3,151 residents
3,966 residents
3,120 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LE16 7 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+
- 21.2%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 21.2%
- Gigabit-capable
- 21.2%
- 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
MARKET HARBOROUGH MED.CTR
67 COVENTRY ROAD, MARKET HARBOROUGH, LE16 9BX
ODS code C82009
313 m
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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Bowden Lane
BCT · Market Harborough
- 0.1 miles
Bowden Lane
BCT · Market Harborough
- 0.1 miles
Doddridge Road
BCT · Market Harborough
- 0.1 miles
The Square
BCT · Market Harborough
- 0.1 miles
Heygate Street
BCT · Market Harborough
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Harborough 008A, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
25,807 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 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
- 9
- Medium risk addresses
- 15
- Low risk addresses
- 7
- 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
1,509 published events cover 12 months, averaging 125.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 525 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.