Schools
120 open schools are in scope, including 72 primary and 16 secondary schools. Granby Primary School is the nearest published school at 279 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LE2 8TE
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 8TE
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1981
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE2
- Postcode sector
- LE2 8
- Latitude
- 52.609142
- Longitude
- -1.149340
- British National Grid easting
- 457,700
- British National Grid northing
- 301,600
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
- E00068712
- Lower layer super output area
- Leicester 034E · E01013612
- 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
- 120
- Primary
- 72
- Secondary
- 16
- 279 m
Granby Primary School
Community school
- 971 m
Ellesmere College
Community special school
- 987 m
Montrose School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,528
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,651
- Criminal damage and arson 544
- Public order 513
- Anti social behaviour 402
- Vehicle crime 276
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
49
within 5 km straight-line
AYLESTONE HEALTH CENTRE
15 HALL LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 8SF
ODS code C82092
438 m
THE SURGERY @ AYLESTONE
672 AYLESTONE ROAD, FOSSE ROAD SOUTH, LEICESTER, LE2 8PR
ODS code C82669
813 m
SAFFRON GROUP PRACTICE
509 SAFFRON LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 6UL
ODS code C82046
1.0 km
MERRIDALE MEDICAL CENTRE (RP TEW)
MERRIDALE MEDCIAL CENTRE, 5 FULLHURST AVENUE, LEICESTER, LE3 1BL
ODS code C82073
1.4 km
NARBOROUGH ROAD SURGERY
193 NARBOROUGH ROAD, NARBOROUGH, LEICESTER, LE3 0PE
ODS code C82119
1.7 km
KINGSWAY SURGERY
23 KINGSWAY, LEICESTER, LE3 2JN
ODS code C82039
1.9 km
WALNUT ST MED CTR
110 WALNUT STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 7LE
ODS code C82662
1.9 km
THE HEDGES MEDICAL CENTRE (SA BAILEY)
PASLEY ROAD, EYRES MONSELL, LEICESTER, LE2 9BU
ODS code C82100
2.0 km
DR S SHAFI
5 BRITON STREET, LEICESTER, LE3 0AA
ODS code C82620
2.1 km
STURDEE ROAD HEALTH AND WELLBEING CENTRE
182 STURDEE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 9DB
ODS code C82019
2.1 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
DE MONTFORT SURGERY
STUDENT HEALTH CENTRE, 100 MILL LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 7HX
ODS code C82020
2.2 km
VICTORIA PARK HEALTH CENTRE
203 VICTORIA PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 1XD
ODS code C82124
2.3 km
SPIRIT PRIMARY CARE LIMITED-ASQUITH
693 WELFORD ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 6FQ
ODS code C82614
2.3 km
DR U K ROY
FOSSE FAMILY PRACTICE, 16 FOSSE ROAD SOUTH, LEICESTER, LE3 0QD
ODS code C82114
2.4 km
WESTEND MEDICAL PRACTICE
FOSSE ROAD SOUTH, LEICESTER, LE3 0LP
ODS code C82639
2.5 km
BOWLING GREEN STREET SURGERY
29-31 BOWLING GREEN STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 6AS
ODS code Y02686
2.9 km
HIGHFIELDS SURGERY (R WADHWA)
25 SEVERN STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0NN
ODS code C82116
3.1 km
FOSSE MEDICAL CENTRE (DR H MUKADAM)
FOSSE MEDICAL CENTRE, 334 FOSSE ROAD NORTH, LEICESTER, LE3 5RR
ODS code C82086
3.1 km
Showing 20 of 49 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Hampshire Road
BCT · Aylestone
- 0.1 miles
Aylestone Road
BCT · Aylestone
- 0.1 miles
Hampshire Road
BCT · Aylestone
- 0.2 miles
Grace Road
BCT · Aylestone
- 0.2 miles
Grace Road
BCT · Aylestone
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Leicester 034E, 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
12,429 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
4,528 published events cover 12 months, averaging 377.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,651 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.