Schools
62 open schools are in scope, including 45 primary and 9 secondary schools. ALP Leicester is the nearest published school at 306 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LE4 4FZ
Birstall East & Wanlip · Charnwood · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Charnwood
- Constituency
- Mid Leicestershire
- Postcode district
- LE4
- Postcode sector
- LE4 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE4 4FZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 March 1988
- Terminated
- 1 December 1992
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE4
- Postcode sector
- LE4 4
- Latitude
- 52.684421
- Longitude
- -1.116814
- British National Grid easting
- 459,800
- British National Grid northing
- 310,000
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Charnwood · E07000130
- Electoral ward
- Birstall East & Wanlip · E05014668
- Parish or community
- E04012882
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Leicestershire · E14001364
- Output area
- E00130317
- Lower layer super output area
- Charnwood 019D · E01025682
- Middle layer super output area
- Charnwood 019 · E02005363
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 LE4
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 62
- Primary
- 45
- Secondary
- 9
- 306 m
ALP Leicester
Other independent special school
- 312 m
The Cedars Academy
Academy converter
- 755 m
Riverside Community Primary School Birstall
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,006
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 318
- Anti social behaviour 152
- Criminal damage and arson 115
- Public order 95
- Other theft 74
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LE4 4 residents
- 6,670
Age bands in LE4 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.2%
1,048 residents
663 residents
1,547 residents
1,862 residents
1,547 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
23
within 5 km straight-line
BIRSTALL MEDICAL CENTRE
4 WHILES LANE, BIRSTALL, LEICESTER, LE4 4EE
ODS code C82091
876 m
GREENGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
1 GREENGATE LANE, BIRSTALL, LEICESTER, LE4 3JF
ODS code C82003
901 m
THURMASTON HEALTH CENTRE
573A MELTON ROAD, THURMASTON, LEICESTER, LE4 8EA
ODS code C82678
1.6 km
SILVERDALE MEDICAL CENTRE
6 SILVERDALE DRIVE, THURMASTON, LEICESTER, LE4 8NN
ODS code C82627
2.2 km
SPIRIT PRIMARY CARE LTD-RUSHEY MEAD
RUSHEY MEAD HEALTH CENTRE, 8 LOCKERBIE WALK, LEICESTER, LE4 7ZX
ODS code C82680
2.5 km
BROADHURST STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
10 BROADHURST STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6NF
ODS code C82651
3.4 km
SPIRIT PRIMARY CARE LTD-BEAUMONT LEYS
BEAUMONT LEYS HEALTH CENTRE, 1 LITTLE WOOD CLOSE, LEICESTER, LE4 0UZ
ODS code C82624
3.5 km
MANOR PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
122 PARKER DRIVE, LEICESTER, LE4 0JF
ODS code C82018
3.6 km
DR B MODI
122 CANON STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6NL
ODS code C82084
3.7 km
THE COUNTY PRACTICE
HEALTH CENTRE, MELTON ROAD, SYSTON, LEICESTER, LE7 2EQ
ODS code C82042
3.7 km
THE JUBILEE MEDICAL PRACTICE
SYSTON HEALTH CENTRE, 1330 MELTON ROAD, SYSTON, LEICESTER, LE7 2EQ
ODS code C82078
3.7 km
BRANDON SURGERY DR R KAPUR & PARTNER
BELGRAVE HEALTH CENTRE, 52 BRANDON STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6AW
ODS code C82671
4.1 km
COSSINGTON PARK SURGERY
BELGRAVE MEDICAL CENTRE, 52 BRANDON STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6AW
ODS code C82107
4.1 km
BEAUMONT LODGE MEDICAL PRACTICE
2 BAXTERS CLOSE, BEAUMONT LEYS, LEICESTER, LE4 0QR
ODS code C82094
4.1 km
CHARNWOOD SURGERY
39 LINKFIELD ROAD, MOUNTSORREL, LOUGHBOROUGH, LE12 7DJ
ODS code C82097
4.4 km
HUMBERSTONE MEDICAL CENTRE (IP JONES)
HUMBERSTONE MEDICAL CENTRE, 150 WYCOMBE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 0PR
ODS code C82033
4.7 km
ALPINE HOUSE SURGERY
86 ROTHLEY ROAD, MOUNTSORREL, LOUGHBOROUGH, LE12 7JU
ODS code C82095
4.8 km
HERON GP PRACTICE
MERLYN VAZ H&S CARE CTR, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code Y02469
4.8 km
HIGHFIELDS MEDICAL CENTRE
THE MERLYN VAZ CENTRE, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code C82642
4.8 km
THE CHARNWOOD PRACTICE
MERLYN VAZ HEALTH CENTRE, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code C82667
4.8 km
Showing 20 of 23 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Windmill Avenue
BCT · Birstall
- 0.2 miles
Stonehill Avenue
BCT · Birstall
- 0.3 miles
Northfield Avenue
BCT · Birstall
- 0.3 miles
Lambourne Road
BCT · Birstall
- 0.4 miles
Paget Avenue
BCT · Birstall
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Charnwood 019D, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
24,449 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
1,006 published events cover 12 months, averaging 83.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 318 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.