Schools
130 open schools are in scope, including 79 primary and 19 secondary schools. Spark Vale Academy is the nearest published school at 199 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LE4 6QW
Rushey Mead · Leicester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Rushey Mead
- Local authority
- Leicester
- Constituency
- Leicester East
- Postcode district
- LE4
- Postcode sector
- LE4 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE4 6QW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 February 1990
- Terminated
- 1 December 1991
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE4
- Postcode sector
- LE4 6
- Latitude
- 52.654758
- Longitude
- -1.117411
- British National Grid easting
- 459,800
- British National Grid northing
- 306,700
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Leicester · E06000016
- Electoral ward
- Rushey Mead · E05010470
- Parish or community
- E43000015
- Westminster constituency
- Leicester East · E14001326
- Output area
- E00068808
- Lower layer super output area
- Leicester 007B · E01013626
- Middle layer super output area
- Leicester 007 · E02002833
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
- 130
- Primary
- 79
- Secondary
- 19
- 199 m
Spark Vale Academy
Other independent special school
- 201 m
Saint Patrick's Catholic Voluntary Academy
Academy converter
- 312 m
Darul Uloom Leicester
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,077
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,658
- Anti social behaviour 587
- Public order 385
- Criminal damage and arson 339
- Other theft 267
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LE4 6 residents
- 17,638
Age bands in LE4 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 13.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 13.9%
3,096 residents
2,368 residents
5,007 residents
4,582 residents
2,423 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
47
within 5 km straight-line
BROADHURST STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
10 BROADHURST STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6NF
ODS code C82651
165 m
DR B MODI
122 CANON STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6NL
ODS code C82084
454 m
BRANDON SURGERY DR R KAPUR & PARTNER
BELGRAVE HEALTH CENTRE, 52 BRANDON STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6AW
ODS code C82671
811 m
COSSINGTON PARK SURGERY
BELGRAVE MEDICAL CENTRE, 52 BRANDON STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6AW
ODS code C82107
811 m
SPIRIT PRIMARY CARE LTD-RUSHEY MEAD
RUSHEY MEAD HEALTH CENTRE, 8 LOCKERBIE WALK, LEICESTER, LE4 7ZX
ODS code C82680
1.3 km
HERON GP PRACTICE
MERLYN VAZ H&S CARE CTR, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code Y02469
1.6 km
HIGHFIELDS MEDICAL CENTRE
THE MERLYN VAZ CENTRE, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code C82642
1.6 km
THE CHARNWOOD PRACTICE
MERLYN VAZ HEALTH CENTRE, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code C82667
1.6 km
MANOR PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
122 PARKER DRIVE, LEICESTER, LE4 0JF
ODS code C82018
1.7 km
SPINNEY HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
143 ST SAVIOURS ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3HX
ODS code C82024
2.0 km
EAST LEICESTER MED PRACT(S LONGWORTH)
131 UPPINGHAM ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 4BP
ODS code C82063
2.1 km
HUMBERSTONE MEDICAL CENTRE (IP JONES)
HUMBERSTONE MEDICAL CENTRE, 150 WYCOMBE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 0PR
ODS code C82033
2.2 km
THURMASTON HEALTH CENTRE
573A MELTON ROAD, THURMASTON, LEICESTER, LE4 8EA
ODS code C82678
2.2 km
INCLUSION HEALTHCARE
CHARLES BERRY HOUSE, 45 EAST BOND STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 4SX
ODS code C82670
2.3 km
LEICESTER CITY ASSIST PRACTICE
CHARLES BERRY HOUSE, 45 EAST BOND STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 4SX
ODS code Y00344
2.3 km
BIRSTALL MEDICAL CENTRE
4 WHILES LANE, BIRSTALL, LEICESTER, LE4 4EE
ODS code C82091
2.4 km
COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE (ZS OSAMA)
MOAT CENTRE, MELBOURNE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 0GU
ODS code C82643
2.5 km
EAST PARK MEDICAL CENTRE (RP PANDYA)
264-266 EAST PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 5FD
ODS code C82037
2.5 km
GROBY ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE (ID PATCHETT)
9 GROBY ROAD, LEICESTER, LE3 9ED
ODS code C82005
2.5 km
SPIRIT PRIMARY CARE LTD-BEAUMONT LEYS
BEAUMONT LEYS HEALTH CENTRE, 1 LITTLE WOOD CLOSE, LEICESTER, LE4 0UZ
ODS code C82624
2.6 km
Showing 20 of 47 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Arbour Road
BCT · Belgrave
- 0.1 miles
Arbour Road
BCT · Belgrave
- 0.1 miles
Moores Road
BCT · Belgrave
- 0.1 miles
Lexham Street
BCT · Belgrave
- 0.1 miles
Lipton Road
BCT · Belgrave
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Leicester 007B, 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
5,137 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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
4,077 published events cover 12 months, averaging 339.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,658 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.