Schools
123 open schools are in scope, including 75 primary and 18 secondary schools. Brook Mead Academy is the nearest published school at 399 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LE3 9AU
Fosse · Leicester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Fosse
- Local authority
- Leicester
- Constituency
- Leicester West
- Postcode district
- LE3
- Postcode sector
- LE3 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE3 9AU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1991
- Terminated
- 1 December 1992
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE3
- Postcode sector
- LE3 9
- Latitude
- 52.646916
- Longitude
- -1.151565
- British National Grid easting
- 457,500
- British National Grid northing
- 305,800
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
- E00069075
- Lower layer super output area
- Leicester 008C · E01013680
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 123
- Primary
- 75
- Secondary
- 18
- 399 m
Brook Mead Academy
Free schools
- 461 m
Fosse Mead Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 483 m
Alderman Richard Hallam Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7,278
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,557
- Public order 792
- Criminal damage and arson 759
- Anti social behaviour 674
- Other theft 573
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LE3 9 residents
- 18,147
Age bands in LE3 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 24.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 13.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 11%
4,170 residents
2,274 residents
4,938 residents
4,030 residents
1,909 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
GROBY ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE (ID PATCHETT)
9 GROBY ROAD, LEICESTER, LE3 9ED
ODS code C82005
296 m
FOSSE MEDICAL CENTRE (DR H MUKADAM)
FOSSE MEDICAL CENTRE, 334 FOSSE ROAD NORTH, LEICESTER, LE3 5RR
ODS code C82086
1.1 km
MANOR PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
122 PARKER DRIVE, LEICESTER, LE4 0JF
ODS code C82018
1.2 km
BEAUMONT LODGE MEDICAL PRACTICE
2 BAXTERS CLOSE, BEAUMONT LEYS, LEICESTER, LE4 0QR
ODS code C82094
1.4 km
INCLUSION HEALTHCARE
CHARLES BERRY HOUSE, 45 EAST BOND STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 4SX
ODS code C82670
1.5 km
LEICESTER CITY ASSIST PRACTICE
CHARLES BERRY HOUSE, 45 EAST BOND STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 4SX
ODS code Y00344
1.5 km
SPIRIT PRIMARY CARE LTD-BEAUMONT LEYS
BEAUMONT LEYS HEALTH CENTRE, 1 LITTLE WOOD CLOSE, LEICESTER, LE4 0UZ
ODS code C82624
1.7 km
THE PARKS MEDICAL CENTRE (B HAINSWORTH)
340 AIKMAN AVENUE, LEICESTER, LE3 9PW
ODS code C82610
1.7 km
WESTEND MEDICAL PRACTICE
FOSSE ROAD SOUTH, LEICESTER, LE3 0LP
ODS code C82639
1.7 km
DR U K ROY
FOSSE FAMILY PRACTICE, 16 FOSSE ROAD SOUTH, LEICESTER, LE3 0QD
ODS code C82114
1.8 km
BOWLING GREEN STREET SURGERY
29-31 BOWLING GREEN STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 6AS
ODS code Y02686
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
WESTCOTES GP SURGERY (ONE)
2 WESTCOTES DRIVE, LEICESTER, LE3 0QR
ODS code C82059
2.0 km
WESTCOTES GP SURGERY (TWO)
2 WESTCOTES DRIVE, LEICESTER, LE3 0QR
ODS code C82653
2.0 km
DR S SHAFI
5 BRITON STREET, LEICESTER, LE3 0AA
ODS code C82620
2.1 km
DE MONTFORT SURGERY
STUDENT HEALTH CENTRE, 100 MILL LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 7HX
ODS code C82020
2.2 km
BROADHURST STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
10 BROADHURST STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6NF
ODS code C82651
2.3 km
NARBOROUGH ROAD SURGERY
193 NARBOROUGH ROAD, NARBOROUGH, LEICESTER, LE3 0PE
ODS code C82119
2.5 km
WALNUT ST MED CTR
110 WALNUT STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 7LE
ODS code C82662
2.6 km
Showing 20 of 51 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Bembridge Road
BCT · Leicester
- 0.1 miles
Bembridge Road
BCT · Leicester
- 0.1 miles
Brading Road
BCT · Leicester
- 0.1 miles
Buckminster Road
BCT · Leicester
- 0.1 miles
Buckminster Road
BCT · Leicester
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Leicester 008C, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,543 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
7,278 published events cover 12 months, averaging 606.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,557 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.