Schools
68 open schools are in scope, including 46 primary and 10 secondary schools. Educ8 Leicestershire is the nearest published school at 616 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LE3 8JL
Glenfield Faire · Blaby · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Leicester
- Ward
- Glenfield Faire
- Local authority
- Blaby
- Constituency
- Mid Leicestershire
- Postcode district
- LE3
- Postcode sector
- LE3 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE3 8JL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 1995
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE3
- Postcode sector
- LE3 8
- Latitude
- 52.644420
- Longitude
- -1.191874
- British National Grid easting
- 454,776
- British National Grid northing
- 305,491
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Blaby · E07000129
- Electoral ward
- Glenfield Faire · E05015271
- Parish or community
- E04005349
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Leicestershire · E14001364
- Output area
- E00130063
- Lower layer super output area
- Blaby 013F · E01032603
- Middle layer super output area
- Blaby 013 · E02006820
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
10 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 3, Runnymede Gardens, Glenfield, Leicester, LE3 8JL | 28 September 2018 | £235,000 |
| 5, Runnymede Gardens, Glenfield, Leicester, LE3 8JL | 7 October 2016 | £229,950 |
| 2, Runnymede Gardens, Glenfield, Leicester, LE3 8JL | 24 July 2013 | £155,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 68
- Primary
- 46
- Secondary
- 10
- 616 m
Educ8 Leicestershire
Other independent special school
- 637 m
Forest Lodge Academy
Academy converter
- 679 m
Braunstone Frith Primary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,826
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,164
- Criminal damage and arson 336
- Public order 274
- Anti social behaviour 239
- Shoplifting 217
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 8
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 1.6
- LE3 8 residents
- 11,439
5 female, 3 male
Age bands in LE3 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.3%
1,997 residents
1,117 residents
2,793 residents
3,018 residents
2,704 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LE3 8 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
29
within 5 km straight-line
OAKMEADOW SURGERY (GJ INGRAMS)
87 TATLOW ROAD, GLENFIELD, LEICESTER, LE3 8NF
ODS code C82008
590 m
THE PARKS MEDICAL CENTRE (B HAINSWORTH)
340 AIKMAN AVENUE, LEICESTER, LE3 9PW
ODS code C82610
1.0 km
THE GLENFIELD SURGERY
111 STATION ROAD, GLENFIELD, LEICESTER, LE3 8GS
ODS code C82056
1.3 km
HOCKLEY FARM MED PRACT (A NANA)
39 HOCKLEY FARM ROAD, LEICESTER, LE3 1HN
ODS code C82053
1.6 km
BEAUMONT LODGE MEDICAL PRACTICE
2 BAXTERS CLOSE, BEAUMONT LEYS, LEICESTER, LE4 0QR
ODS code C82094
2.6 km
GROBY ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE (ID PATCHETT)
9 GROBY ROAD, LEICESTER, LE3 9ED
ODS code C82005
2.8 km
FOSSE MEDICAL CENTRE (DR H MUKADAM)
FOSSE MEDICAL CENTRE, 334 FOSSE ROAD NORTH, LEICESTER, LE3 5RR
ODS code C82086
2.8 km
GROBY SURGERY
26 ROOKERY LANE, GROBY, LEICESTER, LE6 0GL
ODS code C82628
3.0 km
WESTEND MEDICAL PRACTICE
FOSSE ROAD SOUTH, LEICESTER, LE3 0LP
ODS code C82639
3.0 km
DR U K ROY
FOSSE FAMILY PRACTICE, 16 FOSSE ROAD SOUTH, LEICESTER, LE3 0QD
ODS code C82114
3.0 km
THE ANSTEY SURGERY
21A THE NOOK, ANSTEY, LEICESTER, LE7 7AZ
ODS code C82032
3.2 km
SPIRIT PRIMARY CARE LTD-BEAUMONT LEYS
BEAUMONT LEYS HEALTH CENTRE, 1 LITTLE WOOD CLOSE, LEICESTER, LE4 0UZ
ODS code C82624
3.3 km
WESTCOTES GP SURGERY (ONE)
2 WESTCOTES DRIVE, LEICESTER, LE3 0QR
ODS code C82059
3.3 km
WESTCOTES GP SURGERY (TWO)
2 WESTCOTES DRIVE, LEICESTER, LE3 0QR
ODS code C82653
3.3 km
NARBOROUGH ROAD SURGERY
193 NARBOROUGH ROAD, NARBOROUGH, LEICESTER, LE3 0PE
ODS code C82119
3.4 km
DR S SHAFI
5 BRITON STREET, LEICESTER, LE3 0AA
ODS code C82620
3.4 km
MERRIDALE MEDICAL CENTRE (RP TEW)
MERRIDALE MEDCIAL CENTRE, 5 FULLHURST AVENUE, LEICESTER, LE3 1BL
ODS code C82073
3.5 km
LLR SAS PROVIDER
SPECIAL ALLOCATION, PO BOX 11058, LEICESTER, LE1 8FL
ODS code Y03584
3.5 km
MANOR PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
122 PARKER DRIVE, LEICESTER, LE4 0JF
ODS code C82018
3.6 km
FOREST MEDICAL GROUP
WARREN LANE, LEICESTER FOREST EAST, LEICESTER, LE3 3LW
ODS code C82066
3.7 km
Showing 20 of 29 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Valiant Close
BCT · Glenfield
- 0.0 miles
Liberty Road
BCT · Glenfield
- 0.0 miles
Valiant Close
BCT · Glenfield
- 0.0 miles
Liberty Road
BCT · Glenfield
- 0.1 miles
Tesco
BCT · Glenfield
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Blaby 013F, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
23,222 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
- 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
2,826 published events cover 12 months, averaging 235.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,164 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.