Property market
The five-year median is £700,000 from 3 recorded sales in LE2 3BE. 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 3BE
Castle · Leicester · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE2 3BE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE2
- Postcode sector
- LE2 3
- Latitude
- 52.617797
- Longitude
- -1.109853
- British National Grid easting
- 460,362
- British National Grid northing
- 302,595
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Leicester · E06000016
- Electoral ward
- Castle · E05010463
- Parish or community
- E43000015
- Westminster constituency
- Leicester South · E14001327
- Output area
- E00068894
- Lower layer super output area
- Leicester 030A · E01013642
- Middle layer super output area
- Leicester 030 · E02002856
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
12 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 265, London Road, Leicester, LE2 3BE | 3 November 2023 | £480,000 |
| 259, London Road, Leicester, LE2 3BE | 2 June 2023 | £700,000 |
| 263, London Road, Leicester, LE2 3BE | 31 August 2022 | £1,250,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 137
- Primary
- 80
- Secondary
- 21
- 128 m
Leicester Preparatory School
Other independent school
- 151 m
Leicester Islamic Academy
Other independent school
- 275 m
St John the Baptist CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,693
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,647
- Criminal damage and arson 493
- Anti social behaviour 490
- Public order 466
- Shoplifting 341
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 51
- Postcode households
- 17
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- LE2 3 residents
- 11,400
28 female, 23 male
Age bands in LE2 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 17%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.6%
1,763 residents
1,984 residents
2,933 residents
3,057 residents
1,937 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LE2 3 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
53
within 5 km
VICTORIA PARK HEALTH CENTRE
203 VICTORIA PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 1XD
ODS code C82124
653 m
HORIZON HEALTHCARE
CATHERINE HOUSE, 2B STOUGHTON DRIVE NORTH, LEICESTER, LE5 5UB
ODS code C82088
746 m
AL-WAQAS MEDICAL CENTRE
91 ST PETERS ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 1DJ
ODS code C82099
1.3 km
HIGHFIELDS SURGERY (R WADHWA)
25 SEVERN STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0NN
ODS code C82116
1.4 km
THE PRACTICE-SAYEED
352 EAST PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 5AY
ODS code C82060
1.5 km
DR R KAPUR & PARTNERS
ST. PETERS HEALTH CENTRE, SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82659
1.6 km
SHEFA MEDICAL PRACTICE
SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82080
1.6 km
ST PETER'S MED CENTRE (MANSINGH & MEHRA)
SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82660
1.6 km
COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE (ZS OSAMA)
MOAT CENTRE, MELBOURNE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 0GU
ODS code C82643
1.6 km
EAST PARK MEDICAL CENTRE (RP PANDYA)
264-266 EAST PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 5FD
ODS code C82037
1.8 km
SPIRIT PRIMARY CARE LIMITED-ASQUITH
693 WELFORD ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 6FQ
ODS code C82614
1.9 km
WALNUT ST MED CTR
110 WALNUT STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 7LE
ODS code C82662
2.1 km
SPINNEY HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
143 ST SAVIOURS ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3HX
ODS code C82024
2.2 km
BOWLING GREEN STREET SURGERY
29-31 BOWLING GREEN STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 6AS
ODS code Y02686
2.3 km
DE MONTFORT SURGERY
STUDENT HEALTH CENTRE, 100 MILL LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 7HX
ODS code C82020
2.4 km
WILLOWS HEALTH
184 COLEMAN ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 4LJ
ODS code Y00137
2.5 km
HERON GP PRACTICE
MERLYN VAZ H&S CARE CTR, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code Y02469
2.6 km
HIGHFIELDS MEDICAL CENTRE
THE MERLYN VAZ CENTRE, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code C82642
2.6 km
THE CHARNWOOD PRACTICE
MERLYN VAZ HEALTH CENTRE, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code C82667
2.6 km
INCLUSION HEALTHCARE
CHARLES BERRY HOUSE, 45 EAST BOND STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 4SX
ODS code C82670
2.8 km
Showing 20 of 53 matching practices.
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
- 0.0 miles
St Johns Road
BCT · Clarendon Park
- 0.1 miles
St Johns Road
BCT · Clarendon Park
- 0.1 miles
East Avenue
BCT · Clarendon Park
- 0.1 miles
Toller Road
BCT · Stoneygate
- 0.2 miles
Toller Road
BCT · Stoneygate
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Leicester 030A, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
15,815 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
- 7
- 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
137 open schools are in scope, including 80 primary and 21 secondary schools. Leicester Preparatory School is the nearest published school at 128 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
4,693 published events cover 12 months, averaging 391.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,647 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.