Schools
128 open schools are in scope, including 75 primary and 21 secondary schools. Millgate School is the nearest published school at 192 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LE2 6DJ
Castle · Leicester · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE2 6DJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 August 2012
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE2
- Postcode sector
- LE2 6
- Latitude
- 52.611310
- Longitude
- -1.129715
- British National Grid easting
- 459,026
- British National Grid northing
- 301,857
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
- E00069118
- Lower layer super output area
- Leicester 038B · E01013690
- 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
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Hub-Student, 1, Flat 1, Burns Street, Leicester, LE2 6DJ | 4 April 2018 | £4,530,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 128
- Primary
- 75
- Secondary
- 21
- 192 m
Millgate School
Academy special converter
- 345 m
Knighton Mead Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 600 m
Sir Jonathan North Girls' College
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,426
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,551
- Public order 500
- Criminal damage and arson 487
- Anti social behaviour 342
- Shoplifting 302
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 46
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LE2 6 residents
- 17,071
28 female, 18 male
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
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LE2 6 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.
GP practices
54
within 5 km
VICTORIA PARK HEALTH CENTRE
203 VICTORIA PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 1XD
ODS code C82124
1.1 km
SAFFRON GROUP PRACTICE
509 SAFFRON LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 6UL
ODS code C82046
1.4 km
SPIRIT PRIMARY CARE LIMITED-ASQUITH
693 WELFORD ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 6FQ
ODS code C82614
1.4 km
WALNUT ST MED CTR
110 WALNUT STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 7LE
ODS code C82662
1.6 km
AYLESTONE HEALTH CENTRE
15 HALL LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 8SF
ODS code C82092
1.7 km
THE SURGERY @ AYLESTONE
672 AYLESTONE ROAD, FOSSE ROAD SOUTH, LEICESTER, LE2 8PR
ODS code C82669
2.0 km
DE MONTFORT SURGERY
STUDENT HEALTH CENTRE, 100 MILL LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 7HX
ODS code C82020
2.1 km
HIGHFIELDS SURGERY (R WADHWA)
25 SEVERN STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0NN
ODS code C82116
2.2 km
NARBOROUGH ROAD SURGERY
193 NARBOROUGH ROAD, NARBOROUGH, LEICESTER, LE3 0PE
ODS code C82119
2.2 km
HORIZON HEALTHCARE
CATHERINE HOUSE, 2B STOUGHTON DRIVE NORTH, LEICESTER, LE5 5UB
ODS code C82088
2.3 km
DR S SHAFI
5 BRITON STREET, LEICESTER, LE3 0AA
ODS code C82620
2.3 km
MERRIDALE MEDICAL CENTRE (RP TEW)
MERRIDALE MEDCIAL CENTRE, 5 FULLHURST AVENUE, LEICESTER, LE3 1BL
ODS code C82073
2.3 km
DR R KAPUR & PARTNERS
ST. PETERS HEALTH CENTRE, SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82659
2.3 km
SHEFA MEDICAL PRACTICE
SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82080
2.3 km
ST PETER'S MED CENTRE (MANSINGH & MEHRA)
SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82660
2.3 km
WESTCOTES GP SURGERY (ONE)
2 WESTCOTES DRIVE, LEICESTER, LE3 0QR
ODS code C82059
2.4 km
WESTCOTES GP SURGERY (TWO)
2 WESTCOTES DRIVE, LEICESTER, LE3 0QR
ODS code C82653
2.4 km
BOWLING GREEN STREET SURGERY
29-31 BOWLING GREEN STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 6AS
ODS code Y02686
2.4 km
AL-WAQAS MEDICAL CENTRE
91 ST PETERS ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 1DJ
ODS code C82099
2.4 km
STURDEE ROAD HEALTH AND WELLBEING CENTRE
182 STURDEE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 9DB
ODS code C82019
2.5 km
Showing 20 of 54 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Aston Hill
BCT · Knighton
- 0.2 miles
Aston Hill
BCT · Knighton
- 0.2 miles
Aylestone Leisure Centre
BCT · Aylestone
- 0.2 miles
Aylestone Leisure Centre
BCT · Aylestone
- 0.3 miles
Houlditch Road
BCT · Knighton Fields
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Leicester 038B, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
6,964 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
4,426 published events cover 12 months, averaging 368.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,551 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.