Property market
The five-year median is £500,000 from 7 recorded sales in LE16 7RU. 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 7RU
Lubenham · Harborough · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Market Harborough
- Ward
- Lubenham
- 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 7RU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE16
- Postcode sector
- LE16 7
- Latitude
- 52.503810
- Longitude
- -0.996326
- British National Grid easting
- 468,224
- British National Grid northing
- 290,017
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Harborough · E07000131
- Electoral ward
- Lubenham · E05011972
- Parish or community
- E04005432
- Westminster constituency
- Harborough, Oadby and Wigston · E14001266
- Output area
- E00130841
- Lower layer super output area
- Harborough 005F · E01025788
- Middle layer super output area
- Harborough 005 · E02005371
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
68 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Westfield, Main Street, Gumley, Market Harborough, LE16 7RU | 7 November 2025 | £1,000,000 |
| Hillside House, Main Street, Gumley, Market Harborough, LE16 7RU | 24 July 2025 | £570,000 |
| Farm Cottage, 1, Main Street, Gumley, Market Harborough, LE16 7RU | 13 September 2024 | £265,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 6
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.8 km
Foxton Primary School
Academy converter
- 3.4 km
Kibworth Mead Academy
Academy converter
- 3.7 km
Lubenham All Saints Church of England Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 9
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3
- Anti social behaviour 2
- Other theft 1
- Public order 1
- Vehicle crime 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 118
- Postcode households
- 48
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- LE16 7 residents
- 12,931
64 female, 54 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 0.9% 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+
- 92.6%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 88.9%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 88.9%
- Gigabit-capable
- 88.9%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 7.4%
- Next Generation Access
- 94.4%
- 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
SOUTH LEICESTERSHIRE MEDICAL GROUP
SMEETON ROAD, KIBWORTH BEAUCHAMP, LEICESTER, LE8 0LG
ODS code C82001
3.6 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Bell Inn
BCT · Gumley
- 0.1 miles
Bell Inn
BCT · Gumley
- 0.8 miles
Foxton Locks Car Park
BCT · Foxton
- 1.1 miles
Main Street
BCT · Foxton
- 1.2 miles
Main Street
BCT · Foxton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Harborough 005F, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
23,599 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- 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
6 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Foxton Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.1 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
9 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.