Property market
The five-year median is £165,000 from 4 recorded sales in LE3 8LF. 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 8LF
Western · Leicester · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE3 8LF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE3
- Postcode sector
- LE3 8
- Latitude
- 52.640579
- Longitude
- -1.196866
- British National Grid easting
- 454,443
- British National Grid northing
- 305,060
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Leicester · E06000016
- Electoral ward
- Western · E05010477
- Parish or community
- E43000015
- Westminster constituency
- Leicester West · E14001328
- Output area
- E00069265
- Lower layer super output area
- Leicester 039B · E01013727
- Middle layer super output area
- Leicester 039 · E02006819
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
21 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 7, Forbes Close, Glenfield, Leicester, LE3 8LF | 26 July 2024 | £165,000 |
| 24, Forbes Close, Glenfield, Leicester, LE3 8LF | 21 June 2024 | £155,000 |
| 10, Forbes Close, Glenfield, Leicester, LE3 8LF | 31 May 2023 | £165,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 63
- Primary
- 43
- Secondary
- 10
- 244 m
Braunstone Frith Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 638 m
Educ8 Leicestershire
Other independent special school
- 990 m
Glenfield Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,319
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 890
- Criminal damage and arson 280
- Shoplifting 234
- Anti social behaviour 215
- Public order 207
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 72
- Postcode households
- 27
- Residents per household
- 2.7
- LE3 8 residents
- 11,439
31 female, 41 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 0.6% 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
28
within 5 km
OAKMEADOW SURGERY (GJ INGRAMS)
87 TATLOW ROAD, GLENFIELD, LEICESTER, LE3 8NF
ODS code C82008
65 m
HOCKLEY FARM MED PRACT (A NANA)
39 HOCKLEY FARM ROAD, LEICESTER, LE3 1HN
ODS code C82053
1.4 km
THE PARKS MEDICAL CENTRE (B HAINSWORTH)
340 AIKMAN AVENUE, LEICESTER, LE3 9PW
ODS code C82610
1.5 km
THE GLENFIELD SURGERY
111 STATION ROAD, GLENFIELD, LEICESTER, LE3 8GS
ODS code C82056
1.6 km
GROBY SURGERY
26 ROOKERY LANE, GROBY, LEICESTER, LE6 0GL
ODS code C82628
3.0 km
FOSSE MEDICAL CENTRE (DR H MUKADAM)
FOSSE MEDICAL CENTRE, 334 FOSSE ROAD NORTH, LEICESTER, LE3 5RR
ODS code C82086
3.1 km
LLR SAS PROVIDER
SPECIAL ALLOCATION, PO BOX 11058, LEICESTER, LE1 8FL
ODS code Y03584
3.1 km
WESTEND MEDICAL PRACTICE
FOSSE ROAD SOUTH, LEICESTER, LE3 0LP
ODS code C82639
3.1 km
BEAUMONT LODGE MEDICAL PRACTICE
2 BAXTERS CLOSE, BEAUMONT LEYS, LEICESTER, LE4 0QR
ODS code C82094
3.2 km
FOREST MEDICAL GROUP
WARREN LANE, LEICESTER FOREST EAST, LEICESTER, LE3 3LW
ODS code C82066
3.2 km
DR U K ROY
FOSSE FAMILY PRACTICE, 16 FOSSE ROAD SOUTH, LEICESTER, LE3 0QD
ODS code C82114
3.2 km
GROBY ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE (ID PATCHETT)
9 GROBY ROAD, LEICESTER, LE3 9ED
ODS code C82005
3.2 km
WESTCOTES GP SURGERY (ONE)
2 WESTCOTES DRIVE, LEICESTER, LE3 0QR
ODS code C82059
3.4 km
WESTCOTES GP SURGERY (TWO)
2 WESTCOTES DRIVE, LEICESTER, LE3 0QR
ODS code C82653
3.4 km
MERRIDALE MEDICAL CENTRE (RP TEW)
MERRIDALE MEDCIAL CENTRE, 5 FULLHURST AVENUE, LEICESTER, LE3 1BL
ODS code C82073
3.4 km
RATBY MEDICAL CENTRE
1A DESFORD LANE, RATBY, LEICESTER, LE6 0LE
ODS code C82634
3.4 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
3.6 km
THE ANSTEY SURGERY
21A THE NOOK, ANSTEY, LEICESTER, LE7 7AZ
ODS code C82032
3.6 km
SPIRIT PRIMARY CARE LTD-BEAUMONT LEYS
BEAUMONT LEYS HEALTH CENTRE, 1 LITTLE WOOD CLOSE, LEICESTER, LE4 0UZ
ODS code C82624
3.8 km
Showing 20 of 28 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
Cranstone Crescent
BCT · New Parks
- 0.0 miles
Forbes Close
BCT · New Parks
- 0.1 miles
Ibbeston Avenue
BCT · New Parks
- 0.1 miles
Tatlow Road
BCT · New Parks
- 0.1 miles
Tournament Road
BCT · New Parks
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Leicester 039B, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
2,287 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
Schools
63 open schools are in scope, including 43 primary and 10 secondary schools. Braunstone Frith Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 244 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,319 published events cover 12 months, averaging 193.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 890 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.