Schools
141 open schools are in scope, including 84 primary and 21 secondary schools. Avenue Primary School is the nearest published school at 269 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LE2 3FR
Castle · Leicester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Castle
- Local authority
- Leicester
- Constituency
- Leicester South
- Postcode district
- LE2
- Postcode sector
- LE2 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE2 3FR
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 August 2001
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE2
- Postcode sector
- LE2 3
- Latitude
- 52.616387
- Longitude
- -1.116026
- British National Grid easting
- 459,946
- British National Grid northing
- 302,433
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
- E00068895
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 141
- Primary
- 84
- Secondary
- 21
- 269 m
Avenue Primary School
Community school
- 327 m
St John the Baptist CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 499 m
St Crispin's School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5,192
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,823
- Criminal damage and arson 525
- Public order 523
- Anti social behaviour 518
- Shoplifting 418
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LE2 3 residents
- 11,400
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
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.
GP practices
52
within 5 km straight-line
VICTORIA PARK HEALTH CENTRE
203 VICTORIA PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 1XD
ODS code C82124
374 m
HORIZON HEALTHCARE
CATHERINE HOUSE, 2B STOUGHTON DRIVE NORTH, LEICESTER, LE5 5UB
ODS code C82088
1.2 km
HIGHFIELDS SURGERY (R WADHWA)
25 SEVERN STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0NN
ODS code C82116
1.5 km
AL-WAQAS MEDICAL CENTRE
91 ST PETERS ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 1DJ
ODS code C82099
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
SPIRIT PRIMARY CARE LIMITED-ASQUITH
693 WELFORD ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 6FQ
ODS code C82614
1.7 km
THE PRACTICE-SAYEED
352 EAST PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 5AY
ODS code C82060
1.7 km
COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE (ZS OSAMA)
MOAT CENTRE, MELBOURNE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 0GU
ODS code C82643
1.8 km
WALNUT ST MED CTR
110 WALNUT STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 7LE
ODS code C82662
1.8 km
EAST PARK MEDICAL CENTRE (RP PANDYA)
264-266 EAST PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 5FD
ODS code C82037
2.1 km
DE MONTFORT SURGERY
STUDENT HEALTH CENTRE, 100 MILL LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 7HX
ODS code C82020
2.2 km
BOWLING GREEN STREET SURGERY
29-31 BOWLING GREEN STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 6AS
ODS code Y02686
2.2 km
SPINNEY HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
143 ST SAVIOURS ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3HX
ODS code C82024
2.4 km
SAFFRON GROUP PRACTICE
509 SAFFRON LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 6UL
ODS code C82046
2.4 km
DR S SHAFI
5 BRITON STREET, LEICESTER, LE3 0AA
ODS code C82620
2.6 km
NARBOROUGH ROAD SURGERY
193 NARBOROUGH ROAD, NARBOROUGH, LEICESTER, LE3 0PE
ODS code C82119
2.7 km
INCLUSION HEALTHCARE
CHARLES BERRY HOUSE, 45 EAST BOND STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 4SX
ODS code C82670
2.7 km
LEICESTER CITY ASSIST PRACTICE
CHARLES BERRY HOUSE, 45 EAST BOND STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 4SX
ODS code Y00344
2.7 km
Showing 20 of 52 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Clarendon Park Road
BCT · Clarendon Park
- 0.1 miles
Clarendon Park Road
BCT · Clarendon Park
- 0.2 miles
Howard Road
BCT · Clarendon Park
- 0.2 miles
Lytton Road
BCT · Clarendon Park
- 0.2 miles
Gainsborough Road
BCT · Clarendon Park
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
5,192 published events cover 12 months, averaging 432.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,823 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.