Schools
45 open schools are in scope, including 24 primary and 9 secondary schools. Manor High School is the nearest published school at 0.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LE2 2FG
Thurnby & Houghton · Harborough · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Leicester
- Ward
- Thurnby & Houghton
- Local authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford
- Postcode district
- LE2
- Postcode sector
- LE2 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE2 2FG
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE2
- Postcode sector
- LE2 2
- Latitude
- 52.605315
- Longitude
- -1.038030
- British National Grid easting
- 465,243
- British National Grid northing
- 301,269
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Harborough · E07000131
- Electoral ward
- Thurnby & Houghton · E05011981
- Parish or community
- E04005475
- Westminster constituency
- Rutland and Stamford · E14001458
- Output area
- E00130975
- Lower layer super output area
- Harborough 011A · E01025812
- Middle layer super output area
- Harborough 011 · E02006816
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 LE2
Property
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Rose Cottage, Gartree Road, Leicester, LE2 2FG | 20 March 2017 | £266,500 |
| Leicester Airport, Gartree Road, Leicester, LE2 2FG | 2 August 2014 | £52,160,600 |
| Piggery Cottages, 2, Gartree Road, Leicester, LE2 2FG | 14 December 2009 | £175,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 45
- Primary
- 24
- Secondary
- 9
- 1.5 km
Manor High School
Academy converter
- 1.6 km
Brookside Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.0 km
Woodland Grange Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 47
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 13
- Public order 10
- Anti social behaviour 9
- Burglary 4
- Other theft 4
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 11
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 2.8
- LE2 2 residents
- 7,269
5 female, 6 male
Age bands in LE2 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 27.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 21.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.2%
805 residents
1,983 residents
1,500 residents
1,567 residents
1,306 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LE2 2 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+
- 44.4%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
7
within 5 km
SEVERN SURGERY
159 UPLANDS ROAD, OADBY, LEICESTER, LE2 4NW
ODS code C82112
2.0 km
THE CROFT MEDICAL CENTRE
2 GLEN ROAD, OADBY, LEICESTER, LE2 4PE
ODS code C82067
2.4 km
DOWNING DRIVE SURGERY
155 DOWNING DRIVE, EVINGTON, LEICESTER, LE5 6LP
ODS code C82030
2.8 km
THE CENTRAL SURGERY
BROOKSBY DRIVE, OADBY, LEICESTER, LE2 5AA
ODS code C82021
3.1 km
ROSEMEAD DRIVE SURGERY
103 ROSEMEAD DRIVE, OADBY, LEICESTER, LE2 5PP
ODS code C82048
3.3 km
HORIZON HEALTHCARE
CATHERINE HOUSE, 2B STOUGHTON DRIVE NORTH, LEICESTER, LE5 5UB
ODS code C82088
4.7 km
WILLOWS HEALTH
184 COLEMAN ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 4LJ
ODS code Y00137
4.9 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
- 0.9 miles
St Mary's Church
BCT · Stoughton
- 0.9 miles
St Mary's Church
BCT · Stoughton
- 1.0 miles
Eden Road
BCT · Oadby
- 1.1 miles
Brookside Primary School
BCT · Oadby
- 1.1 miles
Hamble Road
BCT · Oadby
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Harborough 011A, 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
22,499 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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
- 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
47 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 13 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.