Schools
126 open schools are in scope, including 77 primary and 16 secondary schools. Castle Mead Academy is the nearest published school at 415 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LE3 5SZ
Fosse · Leicester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Fosse
- Local authority
- Leicester
- Constituency
- Leicester West
- Postcode district
- LE3
- Postcode sector
- LE3 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE3 5SZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1993
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE3
- Postcode sector
- LE3 5
- Latitude
- 52.636129
- Longitude
- -1.151773
- British National Grid easting
- 457,500
- British National Grid northing
- 304,600
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Leicester · E06000016
- Electoral ward
- Fosse · E05010466
- Parish or community
- E43000015
- Westminster constituency
- Leicester West · E14001328
- Output area
- E00169452
- Lower layer super output area
- Leicester 016C · E01013683
- Middle layer super output area
- Leicester 016 · E02002842
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 126
- Primary
- 77
- Secondary
- 16
- 415 m
Castle Mead Academy
Free schools
- 497 m
King Richard III Infant and Nursery School
Community school
- 761 m
Shaftesbury Junior School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 15,208
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 5,033
- Public order 1,958
- Shoplifting 1,664
- Other theft 1,225
- Anti social behaviour 1,195
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.
GP practices
51
within 5 km straight-line
FOSSE MEDICAL CENTRE (DR H MUKADAM)
FOSSE MEDICAL CENTRE, 334 FOSSE ROAD NORTH, LEICESTER, LE3 5RR
ODS code C82086
71 m
WESTEND MEDICAL PRACTICE
FOSSE ROAD SOUTH, LEICESTER, LE3 0LP
ODS code C82639
546 m
DR U K ROY
FOSSE FAMILY PRACTICE, 16 FOSSE ROAD SOUTH, LEICESTER, LE3 0QD
ODS code C82114
623 m
WESTCOTES GP SURGERY (ONE)
2 WESTCOTES DRIVE, LEICESTER, LE3 0QR
ODS code C82059
838 m
WESTCOTES GP SURGERY (TWO)
2 WESTCOTES DRIVE, LEICESTER, LE3 0QR
ODS code C82653
838 m
DR S SHAFI
5 BRITON STREET, LEICESTER, LE3 0AA
ODS code C82620
913 m
GROBY ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE (ID PATCHETT)
9 GROBY ROAD, LEICESTER, LE3 9ED
ODS code C82005
918 m
INCLUSION HEALTHCARE
CHARLES BERRY HOUSE, 45 EAST BOND STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 4SX
ODS code C82670
1.1 km
LEICESTER CITY ASSIST PRACTICE
CHARLES BERRY HOUSE, 45 EAST BOND STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 4SX
ODS code Y00344
1.1 km
DE MONTFORT SURGERY
STUDENT HEALTH CENTRE, 100 MILL LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 7HX
ODS code C82020
1.1 km
BOWLING GREEN STREET SURGERY
29-31 BOWLING GREEN STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 6AS
ODS code Y02686
1.3 km
NARBOROUGH ROAD SURGERY
193 NARBOROUGH ROAD, NARBOROUGH, LEICESTER, LE3 0PE
ODS code C82119
1.3 km
WALNUT ST MED CTR
110 WALNUT STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 7LE
ODS code C82662
1.6 km
MERRIDALE MEDICAL CENTRE (RP TEW)
MERRIDALE MEDCIAL CENTRE, 5 FULLHURST AVENUE, LEICESTER, LE3 1BL
ODS code C82073
1.9 km
THE PARKS MEDICAL CENTRE (B HAINSWORTH)
340 AIKMAN AVENUE, LEICESTER, LE3 9PW
ODS code C82610
2.1 km
HOCKLEY FARM MED PRACT (A NANA)
39 HOCKLEY FARM ROAD, LEICESTER, LE3 1HN
ODS code C82053
2.3 km
DR R KAPUR & PARTNERS
ST. PETERS HEALTH CENTRE, SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82659
2.3 km
SHEFA MEDICAL PRACTICE
SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82080
2.3 km
ST PETER'S MED CENTRE (MANSINGH & MEHRA)
SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82660
2.3 km
MANOR PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
122 PARKER DRIVE, LEICESTER, LE4 0JF
ODS code C82018
2.3 km
Showing 20 of 51 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Noble Street
BCT · West End
- 0.1 miles
Noble Street
BCT · West End
- 0.1 miles
Flora Street
BCT · West End
- 0.1 miles
St Paul's Church
BCT · West End
- 0.1 miles
Flora Street
BCT · West End
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Leicester 016C, 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
4,648 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 1 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
15,208 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1,267.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 5,033 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.