Schools
116 open schools are in scope, including 73 primary and 15 secondary schools. Rushey Mead Academy is the nearest published school at 233 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LE4 7PU
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 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE4 7PU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE4
- Postcode sector
- LE4 7
- Latitude
- 52.662424
- Longitude
- -1.107469
- British National Grid easting
- 460,462
- British National Grid northing
- 307,561
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
- E00069303
- Lower layer super output area
- Leicester 005B · E01013739
- 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
- 116
- Primary
- 73
- Secondary
- 15
- 233 m
Rushey Mead Academy
Academy converter
- 237 m
Herrick Primary School
Community school
- 283 m
Soar Valley College
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,758
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,077
- Anti social behaviour 335
- Public order 268
- Criminal damage and arson 225
- Other theft 182
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 21
- Postcode households
- 16
- Residents per household
- 1.3
- LE4 7 residents
- 12,172
6 female, 15 male
Age bands in LE4 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.1%
1,676 residents
1,197 residents
2,957 residents
3,099 residents
2,533 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LE4 7 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
43
within 5 km
SPIRIT PRIMARY CARE LTD-RUSHEY MEAD
RUSHEY MEAD HEALTH CENTRE, 8 LOCKERBIE WALK, LEICESTER, LE4 7ZX
ODS code C82680
262 m
THURMASTON HEALTH CENTRE
573A MELTON ROAD, THURMASTON, LEICESTER, LE4 8EA
ODS code C82678
1.1 km
BROADHURST STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
10 BROADHURST STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6NF
ODS code C82651
1.3 km
DR B MODI
122 CANON STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6NL
ODS code C82084
1.3 km
SILVERDALE MEDICAL CENTRE
6 SILVERDALE DRIVE, THURMASTON, LEICESTER, LE4 8NN
ODS code C82627
1.6 km
BIRSTALL MEDICAL CENTRE
4 WHILES LANE, BIRSTALL, LEICESTER, LE4 4EE
ODS code C82091
1.7 km
BRANDON SURGERY DR R KAPUR & PARTNER
BELGRAVE HEALTH CENTRE, 52 BRANDON STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6AW
ODS code C82671
1.9 km
COSSINGTON PARK SURGERY
BELGRAVE MEDICAL CENTRE, 52 BRANDON STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6AW
ODS code C82107
1.9 km
HUMBERSTONE MEDICAL CENTRE (IP JONES)
HUMBERSTONE MEDICAL CENTRE, 150 WYCOMBE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 0PR
ODS code C82033
2.3 km
HERON GP PRACTICE
MERLYN VAZ H&S CARE CTR, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code Y02469
2.4 km
HIGHFIELDS MEDICAL CENTRE
THE MERLYN VAZ CENTRE, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code C82642
2.4 km
THE CHARNWOOD PRACTICE
MERLYN VAZ HEALTH CENTRE, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code C82667
2.4 km
EAST LEICESTER MED PRACT(S LONGWORTH)
131 UPPINGHAM ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 4BP
ODS code C82063
2.4 km
GREENGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
1 GREENGATE LANE, BIRSTALL, LEICESTER, LE4 3JF
ODS code C82003
2.5 km
MANOR PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
122 PARKER DRIVE, LEICESTER, LE4 0JF
ODS code C82018
2.5 km
SPINNEY HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
143 ST SAVIOURS ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3HX
ODS code C82024
2.8 km
JOHNSON MEDICAL PRACTICE
HILLTOP SURGERY, 22 MAIDENWELL AVENUE, LEICESTER, LE5 1BL
ODS code C82031
2.9 km
SPIRIT PRIMARY CARE LTD-BEAUMONT LEYS
BEAUMONT LEYS HEALTH CENTRE, 1 LITTLE WOOD CLOSE, LEICESTER, LE4 0UZ
ODS code C82624
3.1 km
WILLOWS HEALTH
184 COLEMAN ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 4LJ
ODS code Y00137
3.2 km
EAST PARK MEDICAL CENTRE (RP PANDYA)
264-266 EAST PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 5FD
ODS code C82037
3.2 km
Showing 20 of 43 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Peebles Way
BCT · Leicester
- 0.1 miles
Peebles Way
BCT · Leicester
- 0.1 miles
Selkirk Road
BCT · Leicester
- 0.2 miles
Dunblane Avenue
BCT · Leicester
- 0.2 miles
Dunblane Avenue
BCT · Leicester
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Leicester 005B, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
7,580 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
Recorded crime
2,758 published events cover 12 months, averaging 229.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,077 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.