Schools
132 open schools are in scope, including 78 primary and 20 secondary schools. Millgate School is the nearest published school at 333 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LE2 6AS
Castle · Leicester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Castle
- Local authority
- Leicester
- Constituency
- Leicester South
- Postcode district
- LE2
- Postcode sector
- LE2 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE2 6AS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 February 2012
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE2
- Postcode sector
- LE2 6
- Latitude
- 52.612674
- Longitude
- -1.124504
- British National Grid easting
- 459,377
- British National Grid northing
- 302,013
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
- E00069116
- Lower layer super output area
- Leicester 038A · E01013689
- Middle layer super output area
- Leicester 038 · E02006817
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
- 132
- Primary
- 78
- Secondary
- 20
- 333 m
Millgate School
Academy special converter
- 439 m
Avenue Primary School
Community school
- 641 m
Sir Jonathan North Girls' College
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,718
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,684
- Public order 519
- Criminal damage and arson 493
- Anti social behaviour 386
- Shoplifting 346
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LE2 6 residents
- 17,071
Age bands in LE2 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 17.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 22.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 11.3%
3,652 residents
2,956 residents
4,604 residents
3,731 residents
1,897 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
53
within 5 km straight-line
VICTORIA PARK HEALTH CENTRE
203 VICTORIA PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 1XD
ODS code C82124
800 m
SPIRIT PRIMARY CARE LIMITED-ASQUITH
693 WELFORD ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 6FQ
ODS code C82614
1.3 km
WALNUT ST MED CTR
110 WALNUT STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 7LE
ODS code C82662
1.6 km
SAFFRON GROUP PRACTICE
509 SAFFRON LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 6UL
ODS code C82046
1.7 km
HORIZON HEALTHCARE
CATHERINE HOUSE, 2B STOUGHTON DRIVE NORTH, LEICESTER, LE5 5UB
ODS code C82088
1.9 km
HIGHFIELDS SURGERY (R WADHWA)
25 SEVERN STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0NN
ODS code C82116
1.9 km
AYLESTONE HEALTH CENTRE
15 HALL LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 8SF
ODS code C82092
2.0 km
DR R KAPUR & PARTNERS
ST. PETERS HEALTH CENTRE, SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82659
2.1 km
SHEFA MEDICAL PRACTICE
SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82080
2.1 km
ST PETER'S MED CENTRE (MANSINGH & MEHRA)
SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82660
2.1 km
DE MONTFORT SURGERY
STUDENT HEALTH CENTRE, 100 MILL LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 7HX
ODS code C82020
2.1 km
AL-WAQAS MEDICAL CENTRE
91 ST PETERS ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 1DJ
ODS code C82099
2.1 km
COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE (ZS OSAMA)
MOAT CENTRE, MELBOURNE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 0GU
ODS code C82643
2.3 km
THE SURGERY @ AYLESTONE
672 AYLESTONE ROAD, FOSSE ROAD SOUTH, LEICESTER, LE2 8PR
ODS code C82669
2.3 km
BOWLING GREEN STREET SURGERY
29-31 BOWLING GREEN STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 6AS
ODS code Y02686
2.3 km
THE PRACTICE-SAYEED
352 EAST PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 5AY
ODS code C82060
2.4 km
NARBOROUGH ROAD SURGERY
193 NARBOROUGH ROAD, NARBOROUGH, LEICESTER, LE3 0PE
ODS code C82119
2.4 km
DR S SHAFI
5 BRITON STREET, LEICESTER, LE3 0AA
ODS code C82620
2.4 km
WESTCOTES GP SURGERY (ONE)
2 WESTCOTES DRIVE, LEICESTER, LE3 0QR
ODS code C82059
2.5 km
WESTCOTES GP SURGERY (TWO)
2 WESTCOTES DRIVE, LEICESTER, LE3 0QR
ODS code C82653
2.5 km
Showing 20 of 53 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Clarendon Park Road
BCT · Leicester
- 0.1 miles
Houlditch Road
BCT · Knighton Fields
- 0.1 miles
Leopold Road
BCT · Leicester
- 0.1 miles
Houlditch Road
BCT · Knighton Fields
- 0.1 miles
TA Centre
BCT · Leicester
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Leicester 038A, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
13,462 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
4,718 published events cover 12 months, averaging 393.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,684 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.