Schools
123 open schools are in scope, including 75 primary and 17 secondary schools. Wyvern Primary School is the nearest published school at 251 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LE4 6RL
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 6RL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 2008
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE4
- Postcode sector
- LE4 6
- Latitude
- 52.654812
- Longitude
- -1.105465
- British National Grid easting
- 460,608
- British National Grid northing
- 306,716
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
- E00069342
- Lower layer super output area
- Leicester 005A · E01013732
- Middle layer super output area
- Leicester 005 · E02002831
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
- 123
- Primary
- 75
- Secondary
- 17
- 251 m
Wyvern Primary School
Community school
- 459 m
Rushey Mead Primary School
Community school
- 568 m
North Mead Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,705
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,569
- Anti social behaviour 525
- Public order 355
- Criminal damage and arson 295
- Other theft 241
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
46
within 5 km straight-line
DR B MODI
122 CANON STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6NL
ODS code C82084
633 m
BROADHURST STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
10 BROADHURST STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6NF
ODS code C82651
905 m
SPIRIT PRIMARY CARE LTD-RUSHEY MEAD
RUSHEY MEAD HEALTH CENTRE, 8 LOCKERBIE WALK, LEICESTER, LE4 7ZX
ODS code C82680
941 m
BRANDON SURGERY DR R KAPUR & PARTNER
BELGRAVE HEALTH CENTRE, 52 BRANDON STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6AW
ODS code C82671
1.4 km
COSSINGTON PARK SURGERY
BELGRAVE MEDICAL CENTRE, 52 BRANDON STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6AW
ODS code C82107
1.4 km
HUMBERSTONE MEDICAL CENTRE (IP JONES)
HUMBERSTONE MEDICAL CENTRE, 150 WYCOMBE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 0PR
ODS code C82033
1.5 km
HERON GP PRACTICE
MERLYN VAZ H&S CARE CTR, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code Y02469
1.5 km
HIGHFIELDS MEDICAL CENTRE
THE MERLYN VAZ CENTRE, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code C82642
1.5 km
THE CHARNWOOD PRACTICE
MERLYN VAZ HEALTH CENTRE, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code C82667
1.5 km
EAST LEICESTER MED PRACT(S LONGWORTH)
131 UPPINGHAM ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 4BP
ODS code C82063
1.6 km
SPINNEY HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
143 ST SAVIOURS ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3HX
ODS code C82024
2.0 km
THURMASTON HEALTH CENTRE
573A MELTON ROAD, THURMASTON, LEICESTER, LE4 8EA
ODS code C82678
2.0 km
SILVERDALE MEDICAL CENTRE
6 SILVERDALE DRIVE, THURMASTON, LEICESTER, LE4 8NN
ODS code C82627
2.2 km
WILLOWS HEALTH
184 COLEMAN ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 4LJ
ODS code Y00137
2.3 km
EAST PARK MEDICAL CENTRE (RP PANDYA)
264-266 EAST PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 5FD
ODS code C82037
2.4 km
BIRSTALL MEDICAL CENTRE
4 WHILES LANE, BIRSTALL, LEICESTER, LE4 4EE
ODS code C82091
2.5 km
MANOR PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
122 PARKER DRIVE, LEICESTER, LE4 0JF
ODS code C82018
2.5 km
COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE (ZS OSAMA)
MOAT CENTRE, MELBOURNE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 0GU
ODS code C82643
2.6 km
JOHNSON MEDICAL PRACTICE
HILLTOP SURGERY, 22 MAIDENWELL AVENUE, LEICESTER, LE5 1BL
ODS code C82031
2.6 km
THE PRACTICE-SAYEED
352 EAST PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 5AY
ODS code C82060
2.7 km
Showing 20 of 46 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Rosedale Avenue
BCT · Belgrave
- 0.0 miles
Rosedale Avenue
BCT · Belgrave
- 0.1 miles
Watson Road
BCT · Belgrave
- 0.1 miles
Wyvern Arms
BCT · Leicester
- 0.1 miles
Wyvern Arms
BCT · Leicester
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Leicester 005A, 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
6,540 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 3 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
- 2 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
3,705 published events cover 12 months, averaging 308.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,569 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.