Schools
144 open schools are in scope, including 87 primary and 22 secondary schools. Leicester College is the nearest published school at 80 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LE2 6BE
Saffron · Leicester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Saffron
- Local authority
- Leicester
- Constituency
- Leicester South
- Postcode district
- LE2
- Postcode sector
- LE2 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE2 6BE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE2
- Postcode sector
- LE2 6
- Latitude
- 52.623095
- Longitude
- -1.132126
- British National Grid easting
- 458,847
- British National Grid northing
- 303,166
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Leicester · E06000016
- Electoral ward
- Saffron · E05010471
- Parish or community
- E43000015
- Westminster constituency
- Leicester South · E14001327
- Output area
- E00068890
- Lower layer super output area
- Leicester 030C · E01013649
- 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
- 144
- Primary
- 87
- Secondary
- 22
- 80 m
Leicester College
Further education
- 351 m
Hazel Community Primary School
Community school
- 557 m
The Children's Hospital School
Foundation special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 15,525
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 5,080
- Public order 1,941
- Shoplifting 1,795
- Anti social behaviour 1,244
- Other theft 1,201
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.
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
56
within 5 km
WALNUT ST MED CTR
110 WALNUT STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 7LE
ODS code C82662
483 m
DE MONTFORT SURGERY
STUDENT HEALTH CENTRE, 100 MILL LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 7HX
ODS code C82020
867 m
VICTORIA PARK HEALTH CENTRE
203 VICTORIA PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 1XD
ODS code C82124
978 m
BOWLING GREEN STREET SURGERY
29-31 BOWLING GREEN STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 6AS
ODS code Y02686
1.1 km
HIGHFIELDS SURGERY (R WADHWA)
25 SEVERN STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0NN
ODS code C82116
1.2 km
DR S SHAFI
5 BRITON STREET, LEICESTER, LE3 0AA
ODS code C82620
1.2 km
DR R KAPUR & PARTNERS
ST. PETERS HEALTH CENTRE, SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82659
1.3 km
SHEFA MEDICAL PRACTICE
SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82080
1.3 km
ST PETER'S MED CENTRE (MANSINGH & MEHRA)
SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82660
1.3 km
WESTCOTES GP SURGERY (ONE)
2 WESTCOTES DRIVE, LEICESTER, LE3 0QR
ODS code C82059
1.4 km
WESTCOTES GP SURGERY (TWO)
2 WESTCOTES DRIVE, LEICESTER, LE3 0QR
ODS code C82653
1.4 km
NARBOROUGH ROAD SURGERY
193 NARBOROUGH ROAD, NARBOROUGH, LEICESTER, LE3 0PE
ODS code C82119
1.5 km
INCLUSION HEALTHCARE
CHARLES BERRY HOUSE, 45 EAST BOND STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 4SX
ODS code C82670
1.6 km
LEICESTER CITY ASSIST PRACTICE
CHARLES BERRY HOUSE, 45 EAST BOND STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 4SX
ODS code Y00344
1.6 km
COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE (ZS OSAMA)
MOAT CENTRE, MELBOURNE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 0GU
ODS code C82643
1.6 km
DR U K ROY
FOSSE FAMILY PRACTICE, 16 FOSSE ROAD SOUTH, LEICESTER, LE3 0QD
ODS code C82114
1.6 km
WESTEND MEDICAL PRACTICE
FOSSE ROAD SOUTH, LEICESTER, LE3 0LP
ODS code C82639
1.7 km
AL-WAQAS MEDICAL CENTRE
91 ST PETERS ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 1DJ
ODS code C82099
1.7 km
THE PRACTICE-SAYEED
352 EAST PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 5AY
ODS code C82060
1.9 km
MERRIDALE MEDICAL CENTRE (RP TEW)
MERRIDALE MEDCIAL CENTRE, 5 FULLHURST AVENUE, LEICESTER, LE3 1BL
ODS code C82073
1.9 km
Showing 20 of 56 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
Tigers Way
BCT · Leicester
- 0.1 miles
Leicester College
BCT · Leicester
- 0.1 miles
Sawday Street
BCT · Leicester
- 0.2 miles
Walnut Street
BCT · Leicester
- 0.2 miles
Nelson Mandela Park
BCT · Leicester
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Leicester 030C, 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
12,779 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
- 0
- 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
Recorded crime
15,525 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,293.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 5,080 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.