Property market
The five-year median is £285,000 from 6 recorded sales in LE16 7LB. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Harborough is £345,848 in June 2026, up 9.7% year on year.
LE16 7LB
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 7LB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE16
- Postcode sector
- LE16 7
- Latitude
- 52.485032
- Longitude
- -0.921088
- British National Grid easting
- 473,362
- British National Grid northing
- 288,002
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
- E00130886
- 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
32 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, The Oval, Market Harborough, LE16 7LB | 20 February 2026 | £237,500 |
| 3, The Oval, Market Harborough, LE16 7LB | 18 July 2025 | £380,000 |
| 5, The Oval, Market Harborough, LE16 7LB | 12 March 2025 | £295,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 14
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 2
- 227 m
The Robert Smyth Academy
Academy converter
- 344 m
The Divergent School Harborough
Other independent special school
- 442 m
Ridgeway Primary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,384
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 480
- Shoplifting 199
- Anti social behaviour 140
- Public order 132
- Criminal damage and arson 122
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 46
- Postcode households
- 21
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- LE16 7 residents
- 12,931
24 female, 22 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 0.4% 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+
- 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
1
within 5 km
MARKET HARBOROUGH MED.CTR
67 COVENTRY ROAD, MARKET HARBOROUGH, LE16 9BX
ODS code C82009
918 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Hammond Way
BCT · Market Harborough
- 0.1 miles
Russett Close
BCT · Market Harborough
- 0.1 miles
Russett Close
BCT · Market Harborough
- 0.1 miles
Hammond Way
BCT · Market Harborough
- 0.1 miles
Blenheim Way
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
- 2
- Medium risk addresses
- 2
- Low risk addresses
- 3
- 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
14 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 2 secondary schools. The Robert Smyth Academy is the nearest published school at 227 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,384 published events cover 12 months, averaging 115.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 480 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.