Schools
58 open schools are in scope, including 29 primary and 13 secondary schools. Beauchamp College is the nearest published school at 464 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LE2 5YN
Oadby Brocks Hill · Oadby and Wigston · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Oadby Brocks Hill
- Local authority
- Oadby and Wigston
- Constituency
- Harborough, Oadby and Wigston
- Postcode district
- LE2
- Postcode sector
- LE2 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE2 5YN
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1993
- Terminated
- 1 December 1995
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE2
- Postcode sector
- LE2 5
- Latitude
- 52.588733
- Longitude
- -1.065597
- British National Grid easting
- 463,400
- British National Grid northing
- 299,400
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Oadby and Wigston · E07000135
- Electoral ward
- Oadby Brocks Hill · E05005531
- Parish or community
- E43000108
- Westminster constituency
- Harborough, Oadby and Wigston · E14001266
- Output area
- E00178597
- Lower layer super output area
- Oadby and Wigston 003A · E01025970
- Middle layer super output area
- Oadby and Wigston 003 · E02005412
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
- 58
- Primary
- 29
- Secondary
- 13
- 464 m
Beauchamp College
Academy converter
- 566 m
Gartree High School
Academy converter
- 603 m
Woodland Grange Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 720
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 327
- Anti social behaviour 94
- Public order 75
- Criminal damage and arson 67
- Other theft 40
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LE2 5 residents
- 8,464
Age bands in LE2 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.9%
1,528 residents
803 residents
2,009 residents
2,181 residents
2,164 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
11
within 5 km straight-line
THE CROFT MEDICAL CENTRE
2 GLEN ROAD, OADBY, LEICESTER, LE2 4PE
ODS code C82067
611 m
SEVERN SURGERY
159 UPLANDS ROAD, OADBY, LEICESTER, LE2 4NW
ODS code C82112
1.1 km
ROSEMEAD DRIVE SURGERY
103 ROSEMEAD DRIVE, OADBY, LEICESTER, LE2 5PP
ODS code C82048
1.3 km
THE CENTRAL SURGERY
BROOKSBY DRIVE, OADBY, LEICESTER, LE2 5AA
ODS code C82021
1.6 km
BUSHLOE SURGERY
TWO STEEPLES MED CENTRE, ABINGTON CLOSE, WIGSTON, LE18 2EW
ODS code C82013
3.5 km
WIGSTON CENTRAL SURGERY
TWO STEEPLES MEDICAL CENTRE, 10 ABINGTON CLOSE, WIGSTON, LE18 2EW
ODS code C82071
3.5 km
SPIRIT PRIMARY CARE LIMITED-ASQUITH
693 WELFORD ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 6FQ
ODS code C82614
3.8 km
DOWNING DRIVE SURGERY
155 DOWNING DRIVE, EVINGTON, LEICESTER, LE5 6LP
ODS code C82030
4.1 km
SOUTH WIGSTON HEALTH CTR.
80 BLABY ROAD, SOUTH WIGSTON, WIGSTON, LE18 4SE
ODS code C82079
4.4 km
HORIZON HEALTHCARE
CATHERINE HOUSE, 2B STOUGHTON DRIVE NORTH, LEICESTER, LE5 5UB
ODS code C82088
4.5 km
VICTORIA PARK HEALTH CENTRE
203 VICTORIA PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 1XD
ODS code C82124
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Kew Drive
BCT · Oadby
- 0.1 miles
Florence Wragg Way
BCT · Oadby
- 0.1 miles
Park Crescent
BCT · Oadby
- 0.2 miles
St James Close
BCT · Oadby
- 0.2 miles
Grange Farm
BCT · Oadby
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Oadby and Wigston 003A, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
25,130 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
720 published events cover 12 months, averaging 60 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 327 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.