Property market
The five-year median is £606,500 from 4 recorded sales in LE2 2RA. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Leicester is £228,618 in June 2026, up 1.7% year on year.
LE2 2RA
Knighton · Leicester · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE2 2RA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE2
- Postcode sector
- LE2 2
- Latitude
- 52.613145
- Longitude
- -1.098648
- British National Grid easting
- 461,127
- British National Grid northing
- 302,087
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Leicester · E06000016
- Electoral ward
- Knighton · E05010468
- Parish or community
- E43000015
- Westminster constituency
- Leicester South · E14001327
- Output area
- E00069163
- Lower layer super output area
- Leicester 032E · E01013712
- Middle layer super output area
- Leicester 032 · E02002858
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
24 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 6, Barrington Road, Leicester, LE2 2RA | 19 November 2025 | £658,000 |
| 7, Barrington Road, Leicester, LE2 2RA | 15 January 2025 | £1,125,000 |
| 2, Barrington Road, Leicester, LE2 2RA | 24 April 2024 | £502,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 126
- Primary
- 73
- Secondary
- 17
- 418 m
Leicester High School for Girls
Other independent school
- 478 m
Miller House School
Other independent special school
- 773 m
Leicester Islamic Academy
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,258
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 777
- Anti social behaviour 254
- Shoplifting 229
- Criminal damage and arson 185
- Public order 177
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 51
- Postcode households
- 16
- Residents per household
- 3.2
- LE2 2 residents
- 7,269
23 female, 28 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 0.7% 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+
- 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
51
within 5 km straight-line
HORIZON HEALTHCARE
CATHERINE HOUSE, 2B STOUGHTON DRIVE NORTH, LEICESTER, LE5 5UB
ODS code C82088
1.0 km
VICTORIA PARK HEALTH CENTRE
203 VICTORIA PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 1XD
ODS code C82124
1.5 km
SPIRIT PRIMARY CARE LIMITED-ASQUITH
693 WELFORD ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 6FQ
ODS code C82614
1.8 km
AL-WAQAS MEDICAL CENTRE
91 ST PETERS ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 1DJ
ODS code C82099
1.9 km
THE CENTRAL SURGERY
BROOKSBY DRIVE, OADBY, LEICESTER, LE2 5AA
ODS code C82021
1.9 km
THE PRACTICE-SAYEED
352 EAST PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 5AY
ODS code C82060
2.0 km
HIGHFIELDS SURGERY (R WADHWA)
25 SEVERN STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0NN
ODS code C82116
2.3 km
EAST PARK MEDICAL CENTRE (RP PANDYA)
264-266 EAST PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 5FD
ODS code C82037
2.3 km
COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE (ZS OSAMA)
MOAT CENTRE, MELBOURNE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 0GU
ODS code C82643
2.4 km
DR R KAPUR & PARTNERS
ST. PETERS HEALTH CENTRE, SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82659
2.4 km
SHEFA MEDICAL PRACTICE
SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82080
2.4 km
ST PETER'S MED CENTRE (MANSINGH & MEHRA)
SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82660
2.4 km
ROSEMEAD DRIVE SURGERY
103 ROSEMEAD DRIVE, OADBY, LEICESTER, LE2 5PP
ODS code C82048
2.4 km
WILLOWS HEALTH
184 COLEMAN ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 4LJ
ODS code Y00137
2.6 km
SEVERN SURGERY
159 UPLANDS ROAD, OADBY, LEICESTER, LE2 4NW
ODS code C82112
2.8 km
DOWNING DRIVE SURGERY
155 DOWNING DRIVE, EVINGTON, LEICESTER, LE5 6LP
ODS code C82030
2.8 km
SPINNEY HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
143 ST SAVIOURS ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3HX
ODS code C82024
2.8 km
THE CROFT MEDICAL CENTRE
2 GLEN ROAD, OADBY, LEICESTER, LE2 4PE
ODS code C82067
3.0 km
WALNUT ST MED CTR
110 WALNUT STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 7LE
ODS code C82662
3.0 km
SAFFRON GROUP PRACTICE
509 SAFFRON LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 6UL
ODS code C82046
3.2 km
Showing 20 of 51 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Guildford Road
BCT · Stoneygate
- 0.2 miles
Guildford Road
BCT · Stoneygate
- 0.2 miles
London Road
BCT · South Knighton
- 0.2 miles
Shirley Road
BCT · Stoneygate
- 0.2 miles
London Road
BCT · South Knighton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Leicester 032E, 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
21,693 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
- 1
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- 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
126 open schools are in scope, including 73 primary and 17 secondary schools. Leicester High School for Girls is the nearest published school at 418 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,258 published events cover 12 months, averaging 188.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 777 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.