Property market
The five-year median is £792,500 from 2 recorded sales in LE16 8BB. 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 8BB
Market Harborough-Little Bowden · 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 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE16 8BB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE16
- Postcode sector
- LE16 8
- Latitude
- 52.473000
- Longitude
- -0.900284
- British National Grid easting
- 474,795
- British National Grid northing
- 286,685
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Harborough · E07000131
- Electoral ward
- Market Harborough-Little Bowden · E05011976
- Parish or community
- E43000281
- Westminster constituency
- Harborough, Oadby and Wigston · E14001266
- Output area
- E00187502
- Lower layer super output area
- Harborough 009A · E01025798
- Middle layer super output area
- Harborough 009 · E02005375
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
16 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Tantridge, Shrewsbury Avenue, Market Harborough, LE16 8BB | 18 November 2022 | £1,050,000 |
| 9, Shrewsbury Avenue, Market Harborough, LE16 8BB | 12 August 2022 | £535,000 |
| Tamarisk, Shrewsbury Avenue, Market Harborough, LE16 8BB | 11 December 2019 | £460,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 13
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 2
- 822 m
Little Bowden School
Community school
- 918 m
Meadowdale Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.6 km
Welland Park Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 826
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 242
- Shoplifting 161
- Anti social behaviour 80
- Criminal damage and arson 79
- Public order 76
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 35
- Postcode households
- 13
- Residents per household
- 2.7
- LE16 8 residents
- 10,440
16 female, 19 male
Age bands in LE16 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 33.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 26%
1,474 residents
928 residents
1,851 residents
3,437 residents
2,704 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LE16 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+
- 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
1.7 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
- 0.1 miles
Coleridge Way
BCT · Little Bowden
- 0.1 miles
Shrewsbury Avenue
BCT · Little Bowden
- 0.2 miles
Sandringham Way
BCT · Little Bowden
- 0.3 miles
Stinford Leys
BCT · Little Bowden
- 0.4 miles
Queen Street
BCT · Market Harborough
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Harborough 009A, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
31,816 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 5 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
- 2
- 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
13 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 2 secondary schools. Little Bowden School is the nearest published school at 822 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
826 published events cover 12 months, averaging 68.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 242 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.