Schools
130 open schools are in scope, including 80 primary and 16 secondary schools. Castle Mead Academy is the nearest published school at 306 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LE3 5BF
Abbey · Leicester · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE3 5BF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE3
- Postcode sector
- LE3 5
- Latitude
- 52.634714
- Longitude
- -1.142417
- British National Grid easting
- 458,135
- British National Grid northing
- 304,450
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Leicester · E06000016
- Electoral ward
- Abbey · E05010458
- Parish or community
- E43000015
- Westminster constituency
- Leicester West · E14001328
- Output area
- E00178512
- Lower layer super output area
- Leicester 008H · E01034012
- Middle layer super output area
- Leicester 008 · E02002834
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
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Merlin Wharf, 44, Bath Lane, Leicester, LE3 5BF | 22 October 2019 | £26,722,000 |
| Brucciani (midlands) Ltd, Bath Lane, Leicester, LE3 5BF | 30 April 2019 | £350,000 |
| Merlin Wharf, 44, Bath Lane, Leicester, LE3 5BF | 14 July 2017 | £1,523,348 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 130
- Primary
- 80
- Secondary
- 16
- 306 m
Castle Mead Academy
Free schools
- 382 m
De Montfort University
Higher education institutions
- 509 m
King Richard III Infant and Nursery School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 17,212
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 5,559
- Public order 2,195
- Shoplifting 1,968
- Other theft 1,407
- Anti social behaviour 1,367
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LE3 5 residents
- 7,557
Age bands in LE3 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 20.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 38.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 17.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 5.5%
1,572 residents
1,827 residents
3,350 residents
1,548 residents
481 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.
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
53
within 5 km
INCLUSION HEALTHCARE
CHARLES BERRY HOUSE, 45 EAST BOND STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 4SX
ODS code C82670
517 m
LEICESTER CITY ASSIST PRACTICE
CHARLES BERRY HOUSE, 45 EAST BOND STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 4SX
ODS code Y00344
517 m
BOWLING GREEN STREET SURGERY
29-31 BOWLING GREEN STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 6AS
ODS code Y02686
658 m
DE MONTFORT SURGERY
STUDENT HEALTH CENTRE, 100 MILL LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 7HX
ODS code C82020
685 m
FOSSE MEDICAL CENTRE (DR H MUKADAM)
FOSSE MEDICAL CENTRE, 334 FOSSE ROAD NORTH, LEICESTER, LE3 5RR
ODS code C82086
696 m
DR S SHAFI
5 BRITON STREET, LEICESTER, LE3 0AA
ODS code C82620
838 m
WESTEND MEDICAL PRACTICE
FOSSE ROAD SOUTH, LEICESTER, LE3 0LP
ODS code C82639
843 m
DR U K ROY
FOSSE FAMILY PRACTICE, 16 FOSSE ROAD SOUTH, LEICESTER, LE3 0QD
ODS code C82114
858 m
WESTCOTES GP SURGERY (ONE)
2 WESTCOTES DRIVE, LEICESTER, LE3 0QR
ODS code C82059
901 m
WESTCOTES GP SURGERY (TWO)
2 WESTCOTES DRIVE, LEICESTER, LE3 0QR
ODS code C82653
901 m
WALNUT ST MED CTR
110 WALNUT STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 7LE
ODS code C82662
1.1 km
GROBY ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE (ID PATCHETT)
9 GROBY ROAD, LEICESTER, LE3 9ED
ODS code C82005
1.2 km
NARBOROUGH ROAD SURGERY
193 NARBOROUGH ROAD, NARBOROUGH, LEICESTER, LE3 0PE
ODS code C82119
1.4 km
DR R KAPUR & PARTNERS
ST. PETERS HEALTH CENTRE, SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82659
1.6 km
SHEFA MEDICAL PRACTICE
SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82080
1.6 km
ST PETER'S MED CENTRE (MANSINGH & MEHRA)
SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82660
1.6 km
HIGHFIELDS SURGERY (R WADHWA)
25 SEVERN STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0NN
ODS code C82116
1.7 km
COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE (ZS OSAMA)
MOAT CENTRE, MELBOURNE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 0GU
ODS code C82643
2.0 km
BRANDON SURGERY DR R KAPUR & PARTNER
BELGRAVE HEALTH CENTRE, 52 BRANDON STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6AW
ODS code C82671
2.0 km
COSSINGTON PARK SURGERY
BELGRAVE MEDICAL CENTRE, 52 BRANDON STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6AW
ODS code C82107
2.0 km
Showing 20 of 53 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
West Bridge
BCT · West Bridge
- 0.1 miles
St Nicholas Circle
BCT · Leicester
- 0.1 miles
West Bridge
BCT · West Bridge
- 0.1 miles
St Nicholas Circle
BCT · Leicester
- 0.1 miles
St Nicholas Circle
BCT · Leicester
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Leicester 008H, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
9,028 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- 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
17,212 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,434.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 5,559 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.