Schools
64 open schools are in scope, including 38 primary and 9 secondary schools. Wigston Academy is the nearest published school at 187 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LE18 2DR
Wigston Fields · Oadby and Wigston · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Wigston Fields
- Local authority
- Oadby and Wigston
- Constituency
- Harborough, Oadby and Wigston
- Postcode district
- LE18
- Postcode sector
- LE18 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE18 2DR
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 1992
- Terminated
- 1 July 2026
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE18
- Postcode sector
- LE18 2
- Latitude
- 52.583359
- Longitude
- -1.114963
- British National Grid easting
- 460,063
- British National Grid northing
- 298,760
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Oadby and Wigston · E07000135
- Electoral ward
- Wigston Fields · E05005538
- Parish or community
- E43000108
- Westminster constituency
- Harborough, Oadby and Wigston · E14001266
- Output area
- E00131916
- Lower layer super output area
- Oadby and Wigston 005B · E01025994
- Middle layer super output area
- Oadby and Wigston 005 · E02005414
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 LE18
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 64
- Primary
- 38
- Secondary
- 9
- 187 m
Wigston Academy
Academy converter
- 275 m
Little Hill Primary
Academy converter
- 353 m
Wigston Birkett House Community Special School
Academy special converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,242
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 844
- Shoplifting 260
- Anti social behaviour 237
- Criminal damage and arson 203
- Public order 196
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LE18 2 residents
- 8,365
Age bands in LE18 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.3%
1,412 residents
953 residents
1,982 residents
2,270 residents
2,243 residents
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
20
within 5 km straight-line
BUSHLOE SURGERY
TWO STEEPLES MED CENTRE, ABINGTON CLOSE, WIGSTON, LE18 2EW
ODS code C82013
132 m
WIGSTON CENTRAL SURGERY
TWO STEEPLES MEDICAL CENTRE, 10 ABINGTON CLOSE, WIGSTON, LE18 2EW
ODS code C82071
132 m
SOUTH WIGSTON HEALTH CTR.
80 BLABY ROAD, SOUTH WIGSTON, WIGSTON, LE18 4SE
ODS code C82079
1.0 km
SPIRIT PRIMARY CARE LIMITED-ASQUITH
693 WELFORD ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 6FQ
ODS code C82614
2.0 km
STURDEE ROAD HEALTH AND WELLBEING CENTRE
182 STURDEE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 9DB
ODS code C82019
2.1 km
THE HEDGES MEDICAL CENTRE (SA BAILEY)
PASLEY ROAD, EYRES MONSELL, LEICESTER, LE2 9BU
ODS code C82100
2.3 km
ROSEMEAD DRIVE SURGERY
103 ROSEMEAD DRIVE, OADBY, LEICESTER, LE2 5PP
ODS code C82048
2.4 km
SAFFRON GROUP PRACTICE
509 SAFFRON LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 6UL
ODS code C82046
2.7 km
THE CENTRAL SURGERY
BROOKSBY DRIVE, OADBY, LEICESTER, LE2 5AA
ODS code C82021
2.8 km
THE CROFT MEDICAL CENTRE
2 GLEN ROAD, OADBY, LEICESTER, LE2 4PE
ODS code C82067
3.4 km
NORTHFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
12 VILLERS COURT, BLABY, LEICESTER, LE8 4NS
ODS code C82068
3.4 km
THE SURGERY @ AYLESTONE
672 AYLESTONE ROAD, FOSSE ROAD SOUTH, LEICESTER, LE2 8PR
ODS code C82669
3.4 km
HAZELMERE MEDICAL CENTRE
58 LUTTERWORTH ROAD, BLABY, LEICESTER, LE8 4DN
ODS code C82098
3.5 km
COUNTESTHORPE HEALTH CENTRE
CENTRAL STREET, COUNTESTHORPE, LEICESTER, LE8 5QJ
ODS code C82002
3.5 km
AYLESTONE HEALTH CENTRE
15 HALL LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 8SF
ODS code C82092
3.6 km
SEVERN SURGERY
159 UPLANDS ROAD, OADBY, LEICESTER, LE2 4NW
ODS code C82112
3.8 km
VICTORIA PARK HEALTH CENTRE
203 VICTORIA PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 1XD
ODS code C82124
4.0 km
HORIZON HEALTHCARE
CATHERINE HOUSE, 2B STOUGHTON DRIVE NORTH, LEICESTER, LE5 5UB
ODS code C82088
4.4 km
WALNUT ST MED CTR
110 WALNUT STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 7LE
ODS code C82662
4.9 km
KINGSWAY SURGERY
23 KINGSWAY, LEICESTER, LE3 2JN
ODS code C82039
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Parlour Close
BCT · Wigston Magna
- 0.0 miles
Parlour Close
BCT · Wigston Magna
- 0.1 miles
Birkett House School
BCT · Wigston Magna
- 0.2 miles
Birkett House School
BCT · Wigston Magna
- 0.2 miles
Long Street
BCT · Wigston Magna
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Oadby and Wigston 005B, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
9,676 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
2,242 published events cover 12 months, averaging 186.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 844 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.