Schools
134 open schools are in scope, including 79 primary and 19 secondary schools. Madani Boys School is the nearest published school at 166 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LE5 5FQ
Spinney Hills · Leicester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Spinney Hills
- Local authority
- Leicester
- Constituency
- Leicester South
- Postcode district
- LE5
- Postcode sector
- LE5 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE5 5FQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE5
- Postcode sector
- LE5 5
- Latitude
- 52.629445
- Longitude
- -1.098713
- British National Grid easting
- 461,100
- British National Grid northing
- 303,900
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Leicester · E06000016
- Electoral ward
- Spinney Hills · E05010472
- Parish or community
- E43000015
- Westminster constituency
- Leicester South · E14001327
- Output area
- E00069348
- Lower layer super output area
- Leicester 021C · E01013747
- Middle layer super output area
- Leicester 021 · E02002847
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
- 134
- Primary
- 79
- Secondary
- 19
- 166 m
Madani Boys School
Voluntary aided school
- 166 m
Madani Girls' School
Voluntary aided school
- 245 m
Mayflower Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5,133
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,051
- Anti social behaviour 648
- Criminal damage and arson 477
- Public order 471
- Other theft 318
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LE5 5 residents
- 17,682
Age bands in LE5 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 15.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27%
- Age 45 to 64
- 22.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 13.1%
3,814 residents
2,647 residents
4,706 residents
4,000 residents
2,286 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
50
within 5 km straight-line
THE PRACTICE-SAYEED
352 EAST PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 5AY
ODS code C82060
555 m
EAST PARK MEDICAL CENTRE (RP PANDYA)
264-266 EAST PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 5FD
ODS code C82037
605 m
AL-WAQAS MEDICAL CENTRE
91 ST PETERS ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 1DJ
ODS code C82099
653 m
HORIZON HEALTHCARE
CATHERINE HOUSE, 2B STOUGHTON DRIVE NORTH, LEICESTER, LE5 5UB
ODS code C82088
814 m
WILLOWS HEALTH
184 COLEMAN ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 4LJ
ODS code Y00137
986 m
COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE (ZS OSAMA)
MOAT CENTRE, MELBOURNE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 0GU
ODS code C82643
1.0 km
SPINNEY HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
143 ST SAVIOURS ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3HX
ODS code C82024
1.1 km
HIGHFIELDS SURGERY (R WADHWA)
25 SEVERN STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0NN
ODS code C82116
1.3 km
DR R KAPUR & PARTNERS
ST. PETERS HEALTH CENTRE, SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82659
1.4 km
SHEFA MEDICAL PRACTICE
SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82080
1.4 km
ST PETER'S MED CENTRE (MANSINGH & MEHRA)
SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82660
1.4 km
EAST LEICESTER MED PRACT(S LONGWORTH)
131 UPPINGHAM ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 4BP
ODS code C82063
1.4 km
HERON GP PRACTICE
MERLYN VAZ H&S CARE CTR, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code Y02469
1.5 km
HIGHFIELDS MEDICAL CENTRE
THE MERLYN VAZ CENTRE, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code C82642
1.5 km
THE CHARNWOOD PRACTICE
MERLYN VAZ HEALTH CENTRE, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code C82667
1.5 km
VICTORIA PARK HEALTH CENTRE
203 VICTORIA PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 1XD
ODS code C82124
1.8 km
HUMBERSTONE MEDICAL CENTRE (IP JONES)
HUMBERSTONE MEDICAL CENTRE, 150 WYCOMBE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 0PR
ODS code C82033
1.9 km
BOWLING GREEN STREET SURGERY
29-31 BOWLING GREEN STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 6AS
ODS code Y02686
2.4 km
DOWNING DRIVE SURGERY
155 DOWNING DRIVE, EVINGTON, LEICESTER, LE5 6LP
ODS code C82030
2.5 km
BRANDON SURGERY DR R KAPUR & PARTNER
BELGRAVE HEALTH CENTRE, 52 BRANDON STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6AW
ODS code C82671
2.6 km
Showing 20 of 50 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Gwendolen Road
BCT · North Evington
- 0.1 miles
Gwendolen Road
BCT · North Evington
- 0.1 miles
Constance Road
BCT · North Evington
- 0.1 miles
Linden Street
BCT · North Evington
- 0.1 miles
Chesterfield Road
BCT · North Evington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Leicester 021C, 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
8,088 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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
5,133 published events cover 12 months, averaging 427.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,051 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.