Property market
The five-year median is £290,000 from 2 recorded sales in LE4 8HU. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Charnwood is £276,865 in June 2026, up 3.8% year on year.
LE4 8HU
Thurmaston · Charnwood · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Leicester
- 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 8HU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE4
- Postcode sector
- LE4 8
- Latitude
- 52.671448
- Longitude
- -1.095424
- British National Grid easting
- 461,264
- British National Grid northing
- 308,575
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
- E00130720
- Lower layer super output area
- Charnwood 021D · E01025765
- 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
Property
19 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 11, Westdown Drive, Thurmaston, Leicester, LE4 8HU | 12 March 2026 | £335,000 |
| 17, Westdown Drive, Thurmaston, Leicester, LE4 8HU | 24 April 2023 | £245,000 |
| 31, Westdown Drive, Thurmaston, Leicester, LE4 8HU | 5 December 2014 | £154,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 88
- Primary
- 58
- Secondary
- 13
- 416 m
Sandfield Close Primary School
Community school
- 637 m
Church Hill Church of England Junior School
Academy converter
- 637 m
Church Hill Infant School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,892
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 685
- Criminal damage and arson 213
- Anti social behaviour 210
- Shoplifting 208
- Public order 172
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 60
- Postcode households
- 23
- Residents per household
- 2.6
- LE4 8 residents
- 9,732
31 female, 29 male
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
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LE4 8 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
35
within 5 km
SILVERDALE MEDICAL CENTRE
6 SILVERDALE DRIVE, THURMASTON, LEICESTER, LE4 8NN
ODS code C82627
346 m
THURMASTON HEALTH CENTRE
573A MELTON ROAD, THURMASTON, LEICESTER, LE4 8EA
ODS code C82678
572 m
SPIRIT PRIMARY CARE LTD-RUSHEY MEAD
RUSHEY MEAD HEALTH CENTRE, 8 LOCKERBIE WALK, LEICESTER, LE4 7ZX
ODS code C82680
1.1 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
2.5 km
DR B MODI
122 CANON STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6NL
ODS code C82084
2.5 km
BROADHURST STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
10 BROADHURST STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6NF
ODS code C82651
2.5 km
JOHNSON MEDICAL PRACTICE
HILLTOP SURGERY, 22 MAIDENWELL AVENUE, LEICESTER, LE5 1BL
ODS code C82031
2.8 km
HUMBERSTONE MEDICAL CENTRE (IP JONES)
HUMBERSTONE MEDICAL CENTRE, 150 WYCOMBE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 0PR
ODS code C82033
3.0 km
BRANDON SURGERY DR R KAPUR & PARTNER
BELGRAVE HEALTH CENTRE, 52 BRANDON STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6AW
ODS code C82671
3.2 km
COSSINGTON PARK SURGERY
BELGRAVE MEDICAL CENTRE, 52 BRANDON STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6AW
ODS code C82107
3.2 km
EAST LEICESTER MED PRACT(S LONGWORTH)
131 UPPINGHAM ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 4BP
ODS code C82063
3.3 km
ST ELIZABETH'S MEDICAL CENTRE (JA WOOD)
NETHERHALL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 1DR
ODS code C82676
3.5 km
HERON GP PRACTICE
MERLYN VAZ H&S CARE CTR, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code Y02469
3.5 km
HIGHFIELDS MEDICAL CENTRE
THE MERLYN VAZ CENTRE, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code C82642
3.5 km
THE CHARNWOOD PRACTICE
MERLYN VAZ HEALTH CENTRE, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code C82667
3.5 km
MANOR PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
122 PARKER DRIVE, LEICESTER, LE4 0JF
ODS code C82018
3.6 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
SPINNEY HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
143 ST SAVIOURS ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3HX
ODS code C82024
3.9 km
Showing 20 of 35 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
- 0.0 miles
Northdown Drive
BCT · Thurmaston
- 0.1 miles
Westdown Drive
BCT · Thurmaston
- 0.1 miles
Beechwood Avenue
BCT · Thurmaston
- 0.1 miles
Silverdale Drive
BCT · Thurmaston
- 0.2 miles
Trevino Drive
BCT · Leicester
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Charnwood 021D, 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
24,226 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
- 1
- 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
Schools
88 open schools are in scope, including 58 primary and 13 secondary schools. Sandfield Close Primary School is the nearest published school at 416 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,892 published events cover 12 months, averaging 157.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 685 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.