Property market
The five-year median is £190,000 from 3 recorded sales in LE5 5GS. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Leicester is £228,618 in June 2026, up 1.7% year on year.
LE5 5GS
Stoneygate · Leicester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Leicester
- Ward
- Stoneygate
- Local authority
- Leicester
- Constituency
- Leicester South
- Postcode district
- LE5
- Postcode sector
- LE5 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE5 5GS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE5
- Postcode sector
- LE5 5
- Latitude
- 52.628418
- Longitude
- -1.109179
- British National Grid easting
- 460,393
- British National Grid northing
- 303,777
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Leicester · E06000016
- Electoral ward
- Stoneygate · E05010473
- Parish or community
- E43000015
- Westminster constituency
- Leicester South · E14001327
- Output area
- E00069420
- Lower layer super output area
- Leicester 022F · E01013762
- Middle layer super output area
- Leicester 022 · E02002848
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
29 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 249, Mere Road, Leicester, LE5 5GS | 19 September 2025 | £210,000 |
| 301, Mere Road, Leicester, LE5 5GS | 31 May 2024 | £190,000 |
| 269, Mere Road, Leicester, LE5 5GS | 23 August 2021 | £178,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 140
- Primary
- 86
- Secondary
- 18
- 184 m
Imam Muhammad Adam Institute Boys School
Other independent school
- 357 m
Medway Community Primary School
Community school
- 539 m
Uplands Infant School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7,922
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,780
- Anti social behaviour 879
- Public order 785
- Shoplifting 612
- Criminal damage and arson 601
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 140
- Postcode households
- 40
- Residents per household
- 3.5
- LE5 5 residents
- 17,682
70 female, 70 male
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
This postcode contained 0.8% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LE5 5 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
53
within 5 km
AL-WAQAS MEDICAL CENTRE
91 ST PETERS ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 1DJ
ODS code C82099
90 m
THE PRACTICE-SAYEED
352 EAST PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 5AY
ODS code C82060
319 m
COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE (ZS OSAMA)
MOAT CENTRE, MELBOURNE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 0GU
ODS code C82643
528 m
HIGHFIELDS SURGERY (R WADHWA)
25 SEVERN STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0NN
ODS code C82116
647 m
EAST PARK MEDICAL CENTRE (RP PANDYA)
264-266 EAST PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 5FD
ODS code C82037
667 m
DR R KAPUR & PARTNERS
ST. PETERS HEALTH CENTRE, SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82659
732 m
SHEFA MEDICAL PRACTICE
SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82080
732 m
ST PETER'S MED CENTRE (MANSINGH & MEHRA)
SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82660
732 m
HORIZON HEALTHCARE
CATHERINE HOUSE, 2B STOUGHTON DRIVE NORTH, LEICESTER, LE5 5UB
ODS code C82088
837 m
SPINNEY HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
143 ST SAVIOURS ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3HX
ODS code C82024
999 m
VICTORIA PARK HEALTH CENTRE
203 VICTORIA PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 1XD
ODS code C82124
1.2 km
HERON GP PRACTICE
MERLYN VAZ H&S CARE CTR, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code Y02469
1.4 km
HIGHFIELDS MEDICAL CENTRE
THE MERLYN VAZ CENTRE, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code C82642
1.4 km
THE CHARNWOOD PRACTICE
MERLYN VAZ HEALTH CENTRE, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code C82667
1.4 km
WILLOWS HEALTH
184 COLEMAN ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 4LJ
ODS code Y00137
1.6 km
BOWLING GREEN STREET SURGERY
29-31 BOWLING GREEN STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 6AS
ODS code Y02686
1.7 km
EAST LEICESTER MED PRACT(S LONGWORTH)
131 UPPINGHAM ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 4BP
ODS code C82063
1.8 km
WALNUT ST MED CTR
110 WALNUT STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 7LE
ODS code C82662
2.0 km
INCLUSION HEALTHCARE
CHARLES BERRY HOUSE, 45 EAST BOND STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 4SX
ODS code C82670
2.1 km
LEICESTER CITY ASSIST PRACTICE
CHARLES BERRY HOUSE, 45 EAST BOND STREET, LEICESTER, LE1 4SX
ODS code Y00344
2.1 km
Showing 20 of 53 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Ashover Road
BCT · North Evington
- 0.1 miles
Ashover Road
BCT · North Evington
- 0.1 miles
Laurel Road
BCT · Highfields
- 0.1 miles
Laurel Road
BCT · Highfields
- 0.1 miles
Shipley Road
BCT · North Evington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Leicester 022F, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
3,145 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 4 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.
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
- 2
- Medium risk addresses
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 10
- 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
140 open schools are in scope, including 86 primary and 18 secondary schools. Imam Muhammad Adam Institute Boys School is the nearest published school at 184 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
7,922 published events cover 12 months, averaging 660.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,780 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.