Schools
135 open schools are in scope, including 81 primary and 19 secondary schools. Bridge Junior School is the nearest published school at 122 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LE5 3WY
North Evington · Leicester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- North Evington
- Local authority
- Leicester
- Constituency
- Leicester East
- Postcode district
- LE5
- Postcode sector
- LE5 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE5 3WY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 2000
- Terminated
- 1 July 2000
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE5
- Postcode sector
- LE5 3
- Latitude
- 52.639037
- Longitude
- -1.107028
- British National Grid easting
- 460,524
- British National Grid northing
- 304,960
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Leicester · E06000016
- Electoral ward
- North Evington · E05010469
- Parish or community
- E43000015
- Westminster constituency
- Leicester East · E14001326
- Output area
- E00068920
- Lower layer super output area
- Leicester 017C · E01013657
- Middle layer super output area
- Leicester 017 · E02002843
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
- 135
- Primary
- 81
- Secondary
- 19
- 122 m
Bridge Junior School
Academy converter
- 160 m
Sacred Heart Catholic Voluntary Academy
Academy converter
- 216 m
Green Lane Infant School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 8,223
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3,132
- Anti social behaviour 979
- Public order 792
- Criminal damage and arson 655
- Other theft 590
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LE5 3 residents
- 12,586
Age bands in LE5 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 15.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 30.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 22.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 9%
2,708 residents
1,974 residents
3,802 residents
2,780 residents
1,120 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
51
within 5 km straight-line
SPINNEY HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
143 ST SAVIOURS ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3HX
ODS code C82024
234 m
HERON GP PRACTICE
MERLYN VAZ H&S CARE CTR, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code Y02469
264 m
HIGHFIELDS MEDICAL CENTRE
THE MERLYN VAZ CENTRE, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code C82642
264 m
THE CHARNWOOD PRACTICE
MERLYN VAZ HEALTH CENTRE, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code C82667
264 m
EAST PARK MEDICAL CENTRE (RP PANDYA)
264-266 EAST PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 5FD
ODS code C82037
626 m
COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE (ZS OSAMA)
MOAT CENTRE, MELBOURNE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 0GU
ODS code C82643
855 m
EAST LEICESTER MED PRACT(S LONGWORTH)
131 UPPINGHAM ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 4BP
ODS code C82063
883 m
THE PRACTICE-SAYEED
352 EAST PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 5AY
ODS code C82060
915 m
AL-WAQAS MEDICAL CENTRE
91 ST PETERS ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 1DJ
ODS code C82099
1.1 km
DR R KAPUR & PARTNERS
ST. PETERS HEALTH CENTRE, SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82659
1.2 km
SHEFA MEDICAL PRACTICE
SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82080
1.2 km
ST PETER'S MED CENTRE (MANSINGH & MEHRA)
SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82660
1.2 km
WILLOWS HEALTH
184 COLEMAN ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 4LJ
ODS code Y00137
1.2 km
HIGHFIELDS SURGERY (R WADHWA)
25 SEVERN STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0NN
ODS code C82116
1.3 km
HUMBERSTONE MEDICAL CENTRE (IP JONES)
HUMBERSTONE MEDICAL CENTRE, 150 WYCOMBE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 0PR
ODS code C82033
1.4 km
BRANDON SURGERY DR R KAPUR & PARTNER
BELGRAVE HEALTH CENTRE, 52 BRANDON STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6AW
ODS code C82671
1.4 km
COSSINGTON PARK SURGERY
BELGRAVE MEDICAL CENTRE, 52 BRANDON STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6AW
ODS code C82107
1.4 km
DR B MODI
122 CANON STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6NL
ODS code C82084
1.5 km
BROADHURST STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
10 BROADHURST STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6NF
ODS code C82651
1.8 km
BOWLING GREEN STREET SURGERY
29-31 BOWLING GREEN STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 6AS
ODS code Y02686
1.9 km
Showing 20 of 51 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Harewood Street
BCT · Spinney Hills
- 0.1 miles
Spinney Hill Road
BCT · Spinney Hills
- 0.1 miles
Harewood Street
BCT · Spinney Hills
- 0.1 miles
Mere Road
BCT · Spinney Hills
- 0.2 miles
Spinney Hill Road
BCT · Spinney Hills
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Leicester 017C, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
3,661 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
8,223 published events cover 12 months, averaging 685.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3,132 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.