Property market
The five-year median is £300,000 from 1 recorded sale in LE3 5PR. 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.
LE3 5PR
Westcotes · Leicester · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE3 5PR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE3
- Postcode sector
- LE3 5
- Latitude
- 52.632965
- Longitude
- -1.151834
- British National Grid easting
- 457,500
- British National Grid northing
- 304,248
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Leicester · E06000016
- Electoral ward
- Westcotes · E05010476
- Parish or community
- E43000015
- Westminster constituency
- Leicester West · E14001328
- Output area
- E00069509
- Lower layer super output area
- Leicester 023D · E01013779
- Middle layer super output area
- Leicester 023 · E02002849
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
19 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 22 - 24, Fosse Road Central, Leicester, LE3 5PR | 30 October 2024 | £300,000 |
| 22 - 24, Fosse Road Central, Leicester, LE3 5PR | 15 September 2020 | £650,000 |
| 56a, Fosse Road Central, Leicester, LE3 5PR | 29 June 2020 | £195,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 125
- Primary
- 77
- Secondary
- 16
- 240 m
King Richard III Infant and Nursery School
Community school
- 413 m
Shaftesbury Junior School
Community school
- 520 m
Cherryleas Assessment Centre
Miscellaneous
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 15,196
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 5,084
- Public order 1,965
- Shoplifting 1,598
- Other theft 1,211
- Anti social behaviour 1,205
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 126
- Postcode households
- 82
- Residents per household
- 1.5
- LE3 5 residents
- 7,557
54 female, 72 male
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
This postcode contained 1.7% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LE3 5 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
WESTEND MEDICAL PRACTICE
FOSSE ROAD SOUTH, LEICESTER, LE3 0LP
ODS code C82639
215 m
DR U K ROY
FOSSE FAMILY PRACTICE, 16 FOSSE ROAD SOUTH, LEICESTER, LE3 0QD
ODS code C82114
278 m
FOSSE MEDICAL CENTRE (DR H MUKADAM)
FOSSE MEDICAL CENTRE, 334 FOSSE ROAD NORTH, LEICESTER, LE3 5RR
ODS code C82086
419 m
WESTCOTES GP SURGERY (ONE)
2 WESTCOTES DRIVE, LEICESTER, LE3 0QR
ODS code C82059
487 m
WESTCOTES GP SURGERY (TWO)
2 WESTCOTES DRIVE, LEICESTER, LE3 0QR
ODS code C82653
487 m
DR S SHAFI
5 BRITON STREET, LEICESTER, LE3 0AA
ODS code C82620
579 m
DE MONTFORT SURGERY
STUDENT HEALTH CENTRE, 100 MILL LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 7HX
ODS code C82020
869 m
NARBOROUGH ROAD SURGERY
193 NARBOROUGH ROAD, NARBOROUGH, LEICESTER, LE3 0PE
ODS code C82119
962 m
INCLUSION HEALTHCARE
CHARLES BERRY HOUSE, 45 EAST BOND STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 4SX
ODS code C82670
1.2 km
LEICESTER CITY ASSIST PRACTICE
CHARLES BERRY HOUSE, 45 EAST BOND STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 4SX
ODS code Y00344
1.2 km
BOWLING GREEN STREET SURGERY
29-31 BOWLING GREEN STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 6AS
ODS code Y02686
1.3 km
GROBY ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE (ID PATCHETT)
9 GROBY ROAD, LEICESTER, LE3 9ED
ODS code C82005
1.3 km
WALNUT ST MED CTR
110 WALNUT STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 7LE
ODS code C82662
1.3 km
MERRIDALE MEDICAL CENTRE (RP TEW)
MERRIDALE MEDCIAL CENTRE, 5 FULLHURST AVENUE, LEICESTER, LE3 1BL
ODS code C82073
1.6 km
HOCKLEY FARM MED PRACT (A NANA)
39 HOCKLEY FARM ROAD, LEICESTER, LE3 1HN
ODS code C82053
2.2 km
DR R KAPUR & PARTNERS
ST. PETERS HEALTH CENTRE, SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82659
2.2 km
SHEFA MEDICAL PRACTICE
SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82080
2.2 km
ST PETER'S MED CENTRE (MANSINGH & MEHRA)
SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82660
2.2 km
HIGHFIELDS SURGERY (R WADHWA)
25 SEVERN STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0NN
ODS code C82116
2.3 km
THE PARKS MEDICAL CENTRE (B HAINSWORTH)
340 AIKMAN AVENUE, LEICESTER, LE3 9PW
ODS code C82610
2.3 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Hinckley Road
BCT · West End
- 0.1 miles
Fosse Road
BCT · West End
- 0.1 miles
Fosse Road
BCT · West End
- 0.1 miles
Flora Street
BCT · West End
- 0.1 miles
Tyndale Street
BCT · West End
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Leicester 023D, 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
5,611 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 6
- 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
125 open schools are in scope, including 77 primary and 16 secondary schools. King Richard III Infant and Nursery School is the nearest published school at 240 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
15,196 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,266.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 5,084 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.