Schools
87 open schools are in scope, including 53 primary and 11 secondary schools. Keyham Lodge School is the nearest published school at 388 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LE5 1BL
Humberstone & Hamilton · Leicester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Leicester
- Local authority
- Leicester
- Constituency
- Leicester East
- Postcode district
- LE5
- Postcode sector
- LE5 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE5 1BL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 August 2005
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE5
- Postcode sector
- LE5 1
- Latitude
- 52.652414
- Longitude
- -1.067345
- British National Grid easting
- 463,190
- British National Grid northing
- 306,482
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Leicester · E06000016
- Electoral ward
- Humberstone & Hamilton · E05010467
- Parish or community
- E43000015
- Westminster constituency
- Leicester East · E14001326
- Output area
- E00169055
- Lower layer super output area
- Leicester 043D · E01013696
- Middle layer super output area
- Leicester 043 · E02006965
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 LE5
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Hiltop Surgery, Maidenwell Avenue, Leicester, LE5 1BL | 7 December 2020 | £2,450,000 |
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 87
- Primary
- 53
- Secondary
- 11
- 388 m
Keyham Lodge School
Academy special converter
- 402 m
Gateway Sixth Form College
Academy 16-19 converter
- 420 m
Kestrel Mead Primary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,600
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,116
- Criminal damage and arson 327
- Anti social behaviour 277
- Public order 225
- Shoplifting 142
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LE5 1 residents
- 21,521
Age bands in LE5 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 24.5%
- 5,232 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.3%
- 2,624 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 31%
- 6,620 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 21.8%
- 4,668 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 10.4%
- 2,224 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.
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, coverage at January 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
30
within 5 km straight-line
JOHNSON MEDICAL PRACTICE
HILLTOP SURGERY, 22 MAIDENWELL AVENUE, LEICESTER, LE5 1BL
ODS code C82031
0 m
ST ELIZABETH'S MEDICAL CENTRE (JA WOOD)
NETHERHALL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 1DR
ODS code C82676
621 m
HUMBERSTONE MEDICAL CENTRE (IP JONES)
HUMBERSTONE MEDICAL CENTRE, 150 WYCOMBE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 0PR
ODS code C82033
1.7 km
EAST LEICESTER MED PRACT(S LONGWORTH)
131 UPPINGHAM ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 4BP
ODS code C82063
2.2 km
WILLOWS HEALTH
184 COLEMAN ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 4LJ
ODS code Y00137
2.3 km
SILVERDALE MEDICAL CENTRE
6 SILVERDALE DRIVE, THURMASTON, LEICESTER, LE4 8NN
ODS code C82627
2.7 km
SPIRIT PRIMARY CARE LTD-RUSHEY MEAD
RUSHEY MEAD HEALTH CENTRE, 8 LOCKERBIE WALK, LEICESTER, LE4 7ZX
ODS code C82680
2.7 km
DOWNING DRIVE SURGERY
155 DOWNING DRIVE, EVINGTON, LEICESTER, LE5 6LP
ODS code C82030
3.0 km
HERON GP PRACTICE
MERLYN VAZ H&S CARE CTR, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code Y02469
3.1 km
HIGHFIELDS MEDICAL CENTRE
THE MERLYN VAZ CENTRE, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code C82642
3.1 km
THE CHARNWOOD PRACTICE
MERLYN VAZ HEALTH CENTRE, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code C82667
3.1 km
DR B MODI
122 CANON STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6NL
ODS code C82084
3.1 km
EAST PARK MEDICAL CENTRE (RP PANDYA)
264-266 EAST PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 5FD
ODS code C82037
3.3 km
SPINNEY HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
143 ST SAVIOURS ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3HX
ODS code C82024
3.3 km
THURMASTON HEALTH CENTRE
573A MELTON ROAD, THURMASTON, LEICESTER, LE4 8EA
ODS code C82678
3.3 km
BROADHURST STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
10 BROADHURST STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6NF
ODS code C82651
3.5 km
THE PRACTICE-SAYEED
352 EAST PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 5AY
ODS code C82060
3.6 km
BRANDON SURGERY DR R KAPUR & PARTNER
BELGRAVE HEALTH CENTRE, 52 BRANDON STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6AW
ODS code C82671
3.7 km
COSSINGTON PARK SURGERY
BELGRAVE MEDICAL CENTRE, 52 BRANDON STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6AW
ODS code C82107
3.7 km
AL-WAQAS MEDICAL CENTRE
91 ST PETERS ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 1DJ
ODS code C82099
3.8 km
Showing 20 of 30 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 114 m
Hamilton Tesco
BCT · Hamilton
- 117 m
Hamilton Tesco
BCT · Hamilton
- 119 m
Hamilton Tesco
BCT · Hamilton
- 189 m
Cranesbill Road
BCT · Nether Hall
- 196 m
Cranesbill Road
BCT · Nether Hall
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Leicester 043D, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
13,034 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
- 2
- 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
2,600 published events cover 12 months, averaging 217 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,116 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.