Schools
82 open schools are in scope, including 51 primary and 10 secondary schools. Elmbrook School is the nearest published school at 0 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LE5 1DT
Humberstone & Hamilton · Leicester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Leicester
- Constituency
- Leicester East
- Postcode district
- LE5
- Postcode sector
- LE5 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE5 1DT
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 October 2023
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE5
- Postcode sector
- LE5 1
- Latitude
- 52.648271
- Longitude
- -1.054943
- British National Grid easting
- 464,035
- British National Grid northing
- 306,032
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
- E00069134
- Lower layer super output area
- Leicester 037B · E01013698
- Middle layer super output area
- Leicester 037 · E02006815
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 82
- Primary
- 51
- Secondary
- 10
- 0 m
Elmbrook School
Pupil referral unit
- 87 m
Scraptoft Valley Primary School
Community school
- 497 m
Orchard Mead Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,807
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,239
- Criminal damage and arson 374
- Anti social behaviour 293
- Public order 255
- Vehicle crime 112
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%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 31%
- Age 45 to 64
- 21.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 10.4%
5,232 residents
2,624 residents
6,620 residents
4,668 residents
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.
GP practices
26
within 5 km
ST ELIZABETH'S MEDICAL CENTRE (JA WOOD)
NETHERHALL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 1DR
ODS code C82676
422 m
JOHNSON MEDICAL PRACTICE
HILLTOP SURGERY, 22 MAIDENWELL AVENUE, LEICESTER, LE5 1BL
ODS code C82031
958 m
HUMBERSTONE MEDICAL CENTRE (IP JONES)
HUMBERSTONE MEDICAL CENTRE, 150 WYCOMBE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 0PR
ODS code C82033
2.4 km
DOWNING DRIVE SURGERY
155 DOWNING DRIVE, EVINGTON, LEICESTER, LE5 6LP
ODS code C82030
2.6 km
WILLOWS HEALTH
184 COLEMAN ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 4LJ
ODS code Y00137
2.7 km
EAST LEICESTER MED PRACT(S LONGWORTH)
131 UPPINGHAM ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 4BP
ODS code C82063
2.8 km
SILVERDALE MEDICAL CENTRE
6 SILVERDALE DRIVE, THURMASTON, LEICESTER, LE4 8NN
ODS code C82627
3.6 km
SPIRIT PRIMARY CARE LTD-RUSHEY MEAD
RUSHEY MEAD HEALTH CENTRE, 8 LOCKERBIE WALK, LEICESTER, LE4 7ZX
ODS code C82680
3.7 km
EAST PARK MEDICAL CENTRE (RP PANDYA)
264-266 EAST PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 5FD
ODS code C82037
3.7 km
HERON GP PRACTICE
MERLYN VAZ H&S CARE CTR, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code Y02469
3.7 km
HIGHFIELDS MEDICAL CENTRE
THE MERLYN VAZ CENTRE, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code C82642
3.7 km
THE CHARNWOOD PRACTICE
MERLYN VAZ HEALTH CENTRE, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code C82667
3.7 km
SPINNEY HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
143 ST SAVIOURS ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3HX
ODS code C82024
3.9 km
DR B MODI
122 CANON STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6NL
ODS code C82084
4.0 km
THE PRACTICE-SAYEED
352 EAST PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 5AY
ODS code C82060
4.0 km
AL-WAQAS MEDICAL CENTRE
91 ST PETERS ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 1DJ
ODS code C82099
4.2 km
THURMASTON HEALTH CENTRE
573A MELTON ROAD, THURMASTON, LEICESTER, LE4 8EA
ODS code C82678
4.3 km
HORIZON HEALTHCARE
CATHERINE HOUSE, 2B STOUGHTON DRIVE NORTH, LEICESTER, LE5 5UB
ODS code C82088
4.3 km
COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE (ZS OSAMA)
MOAT CENTRE, MELBOURNE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 0GU
ODS code C82643
4.3 km
BROADHURST STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
10 BROADHURST STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6NF
ODS code C82651
4.4 km
Showing 20 of 26 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
Ringwood Road
BCT · Nether Hall
- 0.1 miles
Ivychurch Crescent
BCT · Nether Hall
- 0.1 miles
Ivychurch Crescent
BCT · Nether Hall
- 0.1 miles
Ringwood Road
BCT · Nether Hall
- 0.1 miles
Netherhall Road
BCT · Nether Hall
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Leicester 037B, 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
8,434 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
2,807 published events cover 12 months, averaging 233.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,239 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.