Schools
60 open schools are in scope, including 43 primary and 7 secondary schools. The Roundhill Academy is the nearest published school at 569 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LE4 8BX
Thurmaston · Charnwood · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Thurmaston
- Local authority
- Charnwood
- Constituency
- Melton and Syston
- Postcode district
- LE4
- Postcode sector
- LE4 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE4 8BX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1993
- Terminated
- 1 August 2010
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE4
- Postcode sector
- LE4 8
- Latitude
- 52.684153
- Longitude
- -1.097929
- British National Grid easting
- 461,077
- British National Grid northing
- 309,986
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Charnwood · E07000130
- Electoral ward
- Thurmaston · E05014688
- Parish or community
- E04012894
- Westminster constituency
- Melton and Syston · E14001357
- Output area
- E00130709
- Lower layer super output area
- Charnwood 021E · E01025766
- Middle layer super output area
- Charnwood 021 · E02005365
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
- 60
- Primary
- 43
- Secondary
- 7
- 569 m
The Roundhill Academy
Academy converter
- 619 m
Bishop Ellis Catholic Voluntary Academy
Academy converter
- 872 m
Church Hill Church of England Junior School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,235
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 478
- Criminal damage and arson 165
- Anti social behaviour 147
- Public order 97
- Burglary 76
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LE4 8 residents
- 9,732
Age bands in LE4 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.1%
1,595 residents
964 residents
2,466 residents
2,623 residents
2,165 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
21
within 5 km straight-line
THURMASTON HEALTH CENTRE
573A MELTON ROAD, THURMASTON, LEICESTER, LE4 8EA
ODS code C82678
1.4 km
SILVERDALE MEDICAL CENTRE
6 SILVERDALE DRIVE, THURMASTON, LEICESTER, LE4 8NN
ODS code C82627
1.4 km
BIRSTALL MEDICAL CENTRE
4 WHILES LANE, BIRSTALL, LEICESTER, LE4 4EE
ODS code C82091
1.5 km
GREENGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
1 GREENGATE LANE, BIRSTALL, LEICESTER, LE4 3JF
ODS code C82003
2.1 km
SPIRIT PRIMARY CARE LTD-RUSHEY MEAD
RUSHEY MEAD HEALTH CENTRE, 8 LOCKERBIE WALK, LEICESTER, LE4 7ZX
ODS code C82680
2.4 km
THE COUNTY PRACTICE
HEALTH CENTRE, MELTON ROAD, SYSTON, LEICESTER, LE7 2EQ
ODS code C82042
2.7 km
THE JUBILEE MEDICAL PRACTICE
SYSTON HEALTH CENTRE, 1330 MELTON ROAD, SYSTON, LEICESTER, LE7 2EQ
ODS code C82078
2.7 km
BROADHURST STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
10 BROADHURST STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6NF
ODS code C82651
3.7 km
DR B MODI
122 CANON STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6NL
ODS code C82084
3.8 km
JOHNSON MEDICAL PRACTICE
HILLTOP SURGERY, 22 MAIDENWELL AVENUE, LEICESTER, LE5 1BL
ODS code C82031
4.1 km
BRANDON SURGERY DR R KAPUR & PARTNER
BELGRAVE HEALTH CENTRE, 52 BRANDON STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6AW
ODS code C82671
4.3 km
COSSINGTON PARK SURGERY
BELGRAVE MEDICAL CENTRE, 52 BRANDON STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6AW
ODS code C82107
4.3 km
MANOR PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
122 PARKER DRIVE, LEICESTER, LE4 0JF
ODS code C82018
4.4 km
HUMBERSTONE MEDICAL CENTRE (IP JONES)
HUMBERSTONE MEDICAL CENTRE, 150 WYCOMBE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 0PR
ODS code C82033
4.4 km
SPIRIT PRIMARY CARE LTD-BEAUMONT LEYS
BEAUMONT LEYS HEALTH CENTRE, 1 LITTLE WOOD CLOSE, LEICESTER, LE4 0UZ
ODS code C82624
4.5 km
EAST LEICESTER MED PRACT(S LONGWORTH)
131 UPPINGHAM ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 4BP
ODS code C82063
4.7 km
ST ELIZABETH'S MEDICAL CENTRE (JA WOOD)
NETHERHALL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 1DR
ODS code C82676
4.7 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
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Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Costco
BCT · Thurmaston
- 0.1 miles
Costco
BCT · Thurmaston
- 0.2 miles
Canal Street
BCT · Thurmaston
- 0.2 miles
Canal Street
BCT · Thurmaston
- 0.3 miles
Pizza Hut
BCT · Thurmaston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Charnwood 021E, 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
9,508 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,235 published events cover 12 months, averaging 102.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 478 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.