Schools
119 open schools are in scope, including 70 primary and 17 secondary schools. Lancaster Academy is the nearest published school at 304 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LE2 6JZ
Knighton · Leicester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Knighton
- Local authority
- Leicester
- Constituency
- Leicester South
- Postcode district
- LE2
- Postcode sector
- LE2 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE2 6JZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1992
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE2
- Postcode sector
- LE2 6
- Latitude
- 52.602689
- Longitude
- -1.127317
- British National Grid easting
- 459,200
- British National Grid northing
- 300,900
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Leicester · E06000016
- Electoral ward
- Knighton · E05010468
- Parish or community
- E43000015
- Westminster constituency
- Leicester South · E14001327
- Output area
- E00069171
- Lower layer super output area
- Leicester 038C · E01013705
- 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
- 119
- Primary
- 70
- Secondary
- 17
- 304 m
Lancaster Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 505 m
Sir Jonathan North Girls' College
Academy converter
- 689 m
The Goldhill Learning Foundation
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,844
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,458
- Criminal damage and arson 468
- Public order 437
- Anti social behaviour 299
- Drugs 216
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
48
within 5 km straight-line
SPIRIT PRIMARY CARE LIMITED-ASQUITH
693 WELFORD ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 6FQ
ODS code C82614
704 m
SAFFRON GROUP PRACTICE
509 SAFFRON LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 6UL
ODS code C82046
955 m
AYLESTONE HEALTH CENTRE
15 HALL LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 8SF
ODS code C82092
1.7 km
STURDEE ROAD HEALTH AND WELLBEING CENTRE
182 STURDEE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 9DB
ODS code C82019
1.7 km
THE HEDGES MEDICAL CENTRE (SA BAILEY)
PASLEY ROAD, EYRES MONSELL, LEICESTER, LE2 9BU
ODS code C82100
1.8 km
THE SURGERY @ AYLESTONE
672 AYLESTONE ROAD, FOSSE ROAD SOUTH, LEICESTER, LE2 8PR
ODS code C82669
1.9 km
VICTORIA PARK HEALTH CENTRE
203 VICTORIA PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 1XD
ODS code C82124
1.9 km
BUSHLOE SURGERY
TWO STEEPLES MED CENTRE, ABINGTON CLOSE, WIGSTON, LE18 2EW
ODS code C82013
2.3 km
WIGSTON CENTRAL SURGERY
TWO STEEPLES MEDICAL CENTRE, 10 ABINGTON CLOSE, WIGSTON, LE18 2EW
ODS code C82071
2.3 km
SOUTH WIGSTON HEALTH CTR.
80 BLABY ROAD, SOUTH WIGSTON, WIGSTON, LE18 4SE
ODS code C82079
2.5 km
WALNUT ST MED CTR
110 WALNUT STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 7LE
ODS code C82662
2.6 km
HORIZON HEALTHCARE
CATHERINE HOUSE, 2B STOUGHTON DRIVE NORTH, LEICESTER, LE5 5UB
ODS code C82088
2.8 km
MERRIDALE MEDICAL CENTRE (RP TEW)
MERRIDALE MEDCIAL CENTRE, 5 FULLHURST AVENUE, LEICESTER, LE3 1BL
ODS code C82073
2.9 km
NARBOROUGH ROAD SURGERY
193 NARBOROUGH ROAD, NARBOROUGH, LEICESTER, LE3 0PE
ODS code C82119
3.0 km
HIGHFIELDS SURGERY (R WADHWA)
25 SEVERN STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0NN
ODS code C82116
3.0 km
DE MONTFORT SURGERY
STUDENT HEALTH CENTRE, 100 MILL LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 7HX
ODS code C82020
3.0 km
THE CENTRAL SURGERY
BROOKSBY DRIVE, OADBY, LEICESTER, LE2 5AA
ODS code C82021
3.1 km
ROSEMEAD DRIVE SURGERY
103 ROSEMEAD DRIVE, OADBY, LEICESTER, LE2 5PP
ODS code C82048
3.2 km
DR S SHAFI
5 BRITON STREET, LEICESTER, LE3 0AA
ODS code C82620
3.2 km
AL-WAQAS MEDICAL CENTRE
91 ST PETERS ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 1DJ
ODS code C82099
3.2 km
Showing 20 of 48 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Chadderton Close
BCT · Knighton
- 0.2 miles
Woodcroft Avenue
BCT · Knighton
- 0.2 miles
Woodcroft Avenue
BCT · Knighton
- 0.2 miles
Cairnsford Road
BCT · Knighton
- 0.2 miles
Lambourne Road
BCT · Knighton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Leicester 038C, 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
12,094 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
3,844 published events cover 12 months, averaging 320.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,458 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.