Property market
The five-year median is £440,000 from 3 recorded sales in LE5 6EA. 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 6EA
Evington · Leicester · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE5 6EA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE5
- Postcode sector
- LE5 6
- Latitude
- 52.621870
- Longitude
- -1.079280
- British National Grid easting
- 462,426
- British National Grid northing
- 303,074
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Leicester · E06000016
- Electoral ward
- Evington · E05010464
- Parish or community
- E43000015
- Westminster constituency
- Leicester South · E14001327
- Output area
- E00068984
- Lower layer super output area
- Leicester 019F · E01013668
- Middle layer super output area
- Leicester 019 · E02002845
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
19 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 10, The Common, Evington, Leicester, LE5 6EA | 16 October 2025 | £80,000 |
| 4, The Common, Evington, Leicester, LE5 6EA | 23 July 2024 | £440,000 |
| 1, The Common, Evington, Leicester, LE5 6EA | 12 July 2023 | £575,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 112
- Primary
- 64
- Secondary
- 15
- 309 m
Linden Primary School
Community school
- 801 m
Judgemeadow Community College
Academy sponsor led
- 818 m
Whitehall Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,566
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 621
- Anti social behaviour 172
- Criminal damage and arson 160
- Public order 131
- Vehicle crime 103
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 34
- Postcode households
- 13
- Residents per household
- 2.6
- LE5 6 residents
- 9,801
19 female, 15 male
Age bands in LE5 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.7%
1,699 residents
1,187 residents
2,278 residents
2,322 residents
2,075 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LE5 6 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
41
within 5 km
DOWNING DRIVE SURGERY
155 DOWNING DRIVE, EVINGTON, LEICESTER, LE5 6LP
ODS code C82030
1.2 km
HORIZON HEALTHCARE
CATHERINE HOUSE, 2B STOUGHTON DRIVE NORTH, LEICESTER, LE5 5UB
ODS code C82088
1.5 km
WILLOWS HEALTH
184 COLEMAN ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 4LJ
ODS code Y00137
1.7 km
THE PRACTICE-SAYEED
352 EAST PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 5AY
ODS code C82060
2.1 km
AL-WAQAS MEDICAL CENTRE
91 ST PETERS ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 1DJ
ODS code C82099
2.1 km
EAST PARK MEDICAL CENTRE (RP PANDYA)
264-266 EAST PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 5FD
ODS code C82037
2.1 km
EAST LEICESTER MED PRACT(S LONGWORTH)
131 UPPINGHAM ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 4BP
ODS code C82063
2.5 km
THE CENTRAL SURGERY
BROOKSBY DRIVE, OADBY, LEICESTER, LE2 5AA
ODS code C82021
2.6 km
COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE (ZS OSAMA)
MOAT CENTRE, MELBOURNE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 0GU
ODS code C82643
2.6 km
SPINNEY HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
143 ST SAVIOURS ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3HX
ODS code C82024
2.7 km
HUMBERSTONE MEDICAL CENTRE (IP JONES)
HUMBERSTONE MEDICAL CENTRE, 150 WYCOMBE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 0PR
ODS code C82033
2.7 km
VICTORIA PARK HEALTH CENTRE
203 VICTORIA PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 1XD
ODS code C82124
2.7 km
SEVERN SURGERY
159 UPLANDS ROAD, OADBY, LEICESTER, LE2 4NW
ODS code C82112
2.7 km
HIGHFIELDS SURGERY (R WADHWA)
25 SEVERN STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0NN
ODS code C82116
2.8 km
DR R KAPUR & PARTNERS
ST. PETERS HEALTH CENTRE, SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82659
2.9 km
SHEFA MEDICAL PRACTICE
SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82080
2.9 km
ST PETER'S MED CENTRE (MANSINGH & MEHRA)
SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82660
2.9 km
HERON GP PRACTICE
MERLYN VAZ H&S CARE CTR, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code Y02469
2.9 km
HIGHFIELDS MEDICAL CENTRE
THE MERLYN VAZ CENTRE, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code C82642
2.9 km
THE CHARNWOOD PRACTICE
MERLYN VAZ HEALTH CENTRE, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code C82667
2.9 km
Showing 20 of 41 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
Hawthorne Drive
BCT · Evington
- 0.1 miles
Gisbourne Court
BCT · Evington
- 0.1 miles
Gisbourne Court
BCT · Evington
- 0.1 miles
Grocot Road
BCT · Evington
- 0.1 miles
The Cedars
BCT · Evington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Leicester 019F, 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
9,987 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
- 0
- 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
112 open schools are in scope, including 64 primary and 15 secondary schools. Linden Primary School is the nearest published school at 309 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,566 published events cover 12 months, averaging 130.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 621 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.