Schools
96 open schools are in scope, including 58 primary and 12 secondary schools. Montrose School is the nearest published school at 872 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LE2 8NB
Aylestone · Leicester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Aylestone
- Local authority
- Leicester
- Constituency
- Leicester West
- Postcode district
- LE2
- Postcode sector
- LE2 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE2 8NB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE2
- Postcode sector
- LE2 8
- Latitude
- 52.602035
- Longitude
- -1.161290
- British National Grid easting
- 456,900
- British National Grid northing
- 300,800
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Leicester · E06000016
- Electoral ward
- Aylestone · E05010459
- Parish or community
- E43000015
- Westminster constituency
- Leicester West · E14001328
- Output area
- E00068726
- Lower layer super output area
- Leicester 034B · E01013609
- Middle layer super output area
- Leicester 034 · E02002860
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
- 96
- Primary
- 58
- Secondary
- 12
- 872 m
Montrose School
Community school
- 901 m
Granby Primary School
Community school
- 1.1 km
Ellesmere College
Community special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,394
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,093
- Shoplifting 546
- Anti social behaviour 327
- Criminal damage and arson 315
- Public order 302
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LE2 8 residents
- 11,759
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
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
41
within 5 km straight-line
THE SURGERY @ AYLESTONE
672 AYLESTONE ROAD, FOSSE ROAD SOUTH, LEICESTER, LE2 8PR
ODS code C82669
444 m
AYLESTONE HEALTH CENTRE
15 HALL LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 8SF
ODS code C82092
723 m
KINGSWAY SURGERY
23 KINGSWAY, LEICESTER, LE3 2JN
ODS code C82039
1.1 km
SAFFRON GROUP PRACTICE
509 SAFFRON LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 6UL
ODS code C82046
1.4 km
THE HEDGES MEDICAL CENTRE (SA BAILEY)
PASLEY ROAD, EYRES MONSELL, LEICESTER, LE2 9BU
ODS code C82100
1.5 km
STURDEE ROAD HEALTH AND WELLBEING CENTRE
182 STURDEE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 9DB
ODS code C82019
1.8 km
MERRIDALE MEDICAL CENTRE (RP TEW)
MERRIDALE MEDCIAL CENTRE, 5 FULLHURST AVENUE, LEICESTER, LE3 1BL
ODS code C82073
2.0 km
NARBOROUGH ROAD SURGERY
193 NARBOROUGH ROAD, NARBOROUGH, LEICESTER, LE3 0PE
ODS code C82119
2.5 km
LLR SAS PROVIDER
SPECIAL ALLOCATION, PO BOX 11058, LEICESTER, LE1 8FL
ODS code Y03584
2.6 km
NORTHFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
12 VILLERS COURT, BLABY, LEICESTER, LE8 4NS
ODS code C82068
2.8 km
WALNUT ST MED CTR
110 WALNUT STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 7LE
ODS code C82662
2.9 km
SPIRIT PRIMARY CARE LIMITED-ASQUITH
693 WELFORD ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 6FQ
ODS code C82614
3.0 km
DR S SHAFI
5 BRITON STREET, LEICESTER, LE3 0AA
ODS code C82620
3.0 km
WESTCOTES GP SURGERY (ONE)
2 WESTCOTES DRIVE, LEICESTER, LE3 0QR
ODS code C82059
3.0 km
WESTCOTES GP SURGERY (TWO)
2 WESTCOTES DRIVE, LEICESTER, LE3 0QR
ODS code C82653
3.0 km
HAZELMERE MEDICAL CENTRE
58 LUTTERWORTH ROAD, BLABY, LEICESTER, LE8 4DN
ODS code C82098
3.2 km
DR U K ROY
FOSSE FAMILY PRACTICE, 16 FOSSE ROAD SOUTH, LEICESTER, LE3 0QD
ODS code C82114
3.2 km
SOUTH WIGSTON HEALTH CTR.
80 BLABY ROAD, SOUTH WIGSTON, WIGSTON, LE18 4SE
ODS code C82079
3.2 km
DE MONTFORT SURGERY
STUDENT HEALTH CENTRE, 100 MILL LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 7HX
ODS code C82020
3.3 km
WESTEND MEDICAL PRACTICE
FOSSE ROAD SOUTH, LEICESTER, LE3 0LP
ODS code C82639
3.3 km
Showing 20 of 41 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Marsden Lane
BCT · Aylestone
- 0.2 miles
Marsden Lane
BCT · Aylestone
- 0.2 miles
St Andrews Church
BCT · Aylestone
- 0.2 miles
St Andrews Church
BCT · Aylestone
- 0.2 miles
Middleton Street
BCT · Aylestone
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Leicester 034B, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
18,808 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
3,394 published events cover 12 months, averaging 282.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,093 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.