Property market
The five-year median is £125,000 from 13 recorded sales in LE2 8AR. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Leicester is £228,618 in June 2026, up 1.7% year on year.
LE2 8AR
Saffron · Leicester · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE2 8AR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE2
- Postcode sector
- LE2 8
- Latitude
- 52.610860
- Longitude
- -1.138245
- British National Grid easting
- 458,449
- British National Grid northing
- 301,800
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
- E00069097
- Lower layer super output area
- Leicester 031C · E01013687
- Middle layer super output area
- Leicester 031 · E02002857
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
75 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Hadden-Costello House, 122, Flat 14, Lansdowne Road, Leicester, LE2 8AR | 9 April 2026 | £127,500 |
| 94, Lansdowne Road, Leicester, LE2 8AR | 25 March 2026 | £135,000 |
| Hadden-Costello House, 122, Flat 12, Lansdowne Road, Leicester, LE2 8AR | 25 October 2024 | £108,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 123
- Primary
- 74
- Secondary
- 16
- 266 m
Knighton Mead Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 734 m
Millgate School
Academy special converter
- 947 m
Granby Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,705
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,663
- Criminal damage and arson 532
- Public order 522
- Anti social behaviour 388
- Vehicle crime 295
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 87
- Postcode households
- 49
- Residents per household
- 1.8
- LE2 8 residents
- 11,759
45 female, 42 male
Age bands in LE2 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 30.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 15.7%
2,128 residents
1,294 residents
3,537 residents
2,854 residents
1,827 residents
This postcode contained 0.7% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LE2 8 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.
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
51
within 5 km
SAFFRON GROUP PRACTICE
509 SAFFRON LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 6UL
ODS code C82046
1.1 km
AYLESTONE HEALTH CENTRE
15 HALL LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 8SF
ODS code C82092
1.1 km
THE SURGERY @ AYLESTONE
672 AYLESTONE ROAD, FOSSE ROAD SOUTH, LEICESTER, LE2 8PR
ODS code C82669
1.4 km
WALNUT ST MED CTR
110 WALNUT STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 7LE
ODS code C82662
1.5 km
VICTORIA PARK HEALTH CENTRE
203 VICTORIA PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 1XD
ODS code C82124
1.6 km
SPIRIT PRIMARY CARE LIMITED-ASQUITH
693 WELFORD ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 6FQ
ODS code C82614
1.8 km
MERRIDALE MEDICAL CENTRE (RP TEW)
MERRIDALE MEDCIAL CENTRE, 5 FULLHURST AVENUE, LEICESTER, LE3 1BL
ODS code C82073
1.8 km
NARBOROUGH ROAD SURGERY
193 NARBOROUGH ROAD, NARBOROUGH, LEICESTER, LE3 0PE
ODS code C82119
1.8 km
DE MONTFORT SURGERY
STUDENT HEALTH CENTRE, 100 MILL LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 7HX
ODS code C82020
2.0 km
DR S SHAFI
5 BRITON STREET, LEICESTER, LE3 0AA
ODS code C82620
2.0 km
WESTCOTES GP SURGERY (ONE)
2 WESTCOTES DRIVE, LEICESTER, LE3 0QR
ODS code C82059
2.2 km
WESTCOTES GP SURGERY (TWO)
2 WESTCOTES DRIVE, LEICESTER, LE3 0QR
ODS code C82653
2.2 km
THE HEDGES MEDICAL CENTRE (SA BAILEY)
PASLEY ROAD, EYRES MONSELL, LEICESTER, LE2 9BU
ODS code C82100
2.3 km
STURDEE ROAD HEALTH AND WELLBEING CENTRE
182 STURDEE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 9DB
ODS code C82019
2.3 km
DR U K ROY
FOSSE FAMILY PRACTICE, 16 FOSSE ROAD SOUTH, LEICESTER, LE3 0QD
ODS code C82114
2.4 km
HIGHFIELDS SURGERY (R WADHWA)
25 SEVERN STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0NN
ODS code C82116
2.5 km
BOWLING GREEN STREET SURGERY
29-31 BOWLING GREEN STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 6AS
ODS code Y02686
2.5 km
WESTEND MEDICAL PRACTICE
FOSSE ROAD SOUTH, LEICESTER, LE3 0LP
ODS code C82639
2.5 km
DR R KAPUR & PARTNERS
ST. PETERS HEALTH CENTRE, SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82659
2.6 km
SHEFA MEDICAL PRACTICE
SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82080
2.6 km
Showing 20 of 51 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
- 0.1 miles
Lansdowne Road
BCT · Aylestone
- 0.1 miles
Lothair Road
BCT · Aylestone
- 0.1 miles
Recreation Ground
BCT · Aylestone
- 0.1 miles
Lothair Road
BCT · Aylestone
- 0.2 miles
Recreation Ground
BCT · Aylestone
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Leicester 031C, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
5,034 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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
- 24
- 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
Schools
123 open schools are in scope, including 74 primary and 16 secondary schools. Knighton Mead Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 266 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
4,705 published events cover 12 months, averaging 392.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,663 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.