Schools
114 open schools are in scope, including 68 primary and 17 secondary schools. Ellesmere College is the nearest published school at 462 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LE3 2EQ
Braunstone Park & Rowley Fields · Leicester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Leicester
- Local authority
- Leicester
- Constituency
- Leicester West
- Postcode district
- LE3
- Postcode sector
- LE3 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE3 2EQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE3
- Postcode sector
- LE3 2
- Latitude
- 52.613378
- Longitude
- -1.157160
- British National Grid easting
- 457,165
- British National Grid northing
- 302,065
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Leicester · E06000016
- Electoral ward
- Braunstone Park & Rowley Fields · E05010462
- Parish or community
- E43000015
- Westminster constituency
- Leicester West · E14001328
- Output area
- E00068839
- Lower layer super output area
- Leicester 029A · E01013635
- Middle layer super output area
- Leicester 029 · E02002855
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 LE3
Property
14 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 73, Meredith Road, Leicester, LE3 2EQ | 25 February 2021 | £350,000 |
| 69, Meredith Road, Leicester, LE3 2EQ | 12 June 2020 | £231,000 |
| 63, Meredith Road, Leicester, LE3 2EQ | 31 January 2020 | £231,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 114
- Primary
- 68
- Secondary
- 17
- 462 m
Ellesmere College
Community special school
- 604 m
St Mary's Fields Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 868 m
Granby Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,390
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,561
- Anti social behaviour 449
- Criminal damage and arson 434
- Public order 399
- Shoplifting 313
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 53
- Postcode households
- 17
- Residents per household
- 3.1
- LE3 2 residents
- 15,428
26 female, 27 male
Age bands in LE3 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 30.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.9%
2,663 residents
1,595 residents
4,569 residents
3,804 residents
2,570 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LE3 2 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+
- 89.5%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 89.5%
- Gigabit-capable
- 89.5%
- 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
49
within 5 km
MERRIDALE MEDICAL CENTRE (RP TEW)
MERRIDALE MEDCIAL CENTRE, 5 FULLHURST AVENUE, LEICESTER, LE3 1BL
ODS code C82073
748 m
AYLESTONE HEALTH CENTRE
15 HALL LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 8SF
ODS code C82092
912 m
THE SURGERY @ AYLESTONE
672 AYLESTONE ROAD, FOSSE ROAD SOUTH, LEICESTER, LE2 8PR
ODS code C82669
1.2 km
NARBOROUGH ROAD SURGERY
193 NARBOROUGH ROAD, NARBOROUGH, LEICESTER, LE3 0PE
ODS code C82119
1.2 km
KINGSWAY SURGERY
23 KINGSWAY, LEICESTER, LE3 2JN
ODS code C82039
1.5 km
SAFFRON GROUP PRACTICE
509 SAFFRON LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 6UL
ODS code C82046
1.7 km
WESTCOTES GP SURGERY (ONE)
2 WESTCOTES DRIVE, LEICESTER, LE3 0QR
ODS code C82059
1.7 km
WESTCOTES GP SURGERY (TWO)
2 WESTCOTES DRIVE, LEICESTER, LE3 0QR
ODS code C82653
1.7 km
DR S SHAFI
5 BRITON STREET, LEICESTER, LE3 0AA
ODS code C82620
1.7 km
WALNUT ST MED CTR
110 WALNUT STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 7LE
ODS code C82662
1.8 km
DR U K ROY
FOSSE FAMILY PRACTICE, 16 FOSSE ROAD SOUTH, LEICESTER, LE3 0QD
ODS code C82114
1.9 km
DE MONTFORT SURGERY
STUDENT HEALTH CENTRE, 100 MILL LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 7HX
ODS code C82020
2.0 km
WESTEND MEDICAL PRACTICE
FOSSE ROAD SOUTH, LEICESTER, LE3 0LP
ODS code C82639
2.0 km
THE HEDGES MEDICAL CENTRE (SA BAILEY)
PASLEY ROAD, EYRES MONSELL, LEICESTER, LE2 9BU
ODS code C82100
2.6 km
LLR SAS PROVIDER
SPECIAL ALLOCATION, PO BOX 11058, LEICESTER, LE1 8FL
ODS code Y03584
2.6 km
FOSSE MEDICAL CENTRE (DR H MUKADAM)
FOSSE MEDICAL CENTRE, 334 FOSSE ROAD NORTH, LEICESTER, LE3 5RR
ODS code C82086
2.6 km
VICTORIA PARK HEALTH CENTRE
203 VICTORIA PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 1XD
ODS code C82124
2.6 km
HOCKLEY FARM MED PRACT (A NANA)
39 HOCKLEY FARM ROAD, LEICESTER, LE3 1HN
ODS code C82053
2.7 km
STURDEE ROAD HEALTH AND WELLBEING CENTRE
182 STURDEE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 9DB
ODS code C82019
2.7 km
BOWLING GREEN STREET SURGERY
29-31 BOWLING GREEN STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 6AS
ODS code Y02686
2.7 km
Showing 20 of 49 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
- 0.0 miles
Meredith Road
BCT · Leicester
- 0.1 miles
Bramcote Road
BCT · Leicester
- 0.1 miles
Bramcote Road
BCT · Leicester
- 0.1 miles
Barbara Road
BCT · Leicester
- 0.2 miles
Somerville Road
BCT · Leicester
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Leicester 029A, 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
11,416 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
4,390 published events cover 12 months, averaging 365.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,561 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.