Schools
105 open schools are in scope, including 59 primary and 15 secondary schools. Oaklands School is the nearest published school at 107 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LE5 6YB
Evington · Leicester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Evington
- Local authority
- Leicester
- Constituency
- Leicester East
- Postcode district
- LE5
- Postcode sector
- LE5 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE5 6YB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1993
- Terminated
- 1 June 1998
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE5
- Postcode sector
- LE5 6
- Latitude
- 52.627273
- Longitude
- -1.070066
- British National Grid easting
- 463,042
- British National Grid northing
- 303,683
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 East · E14001326
- Output area
- E00068994
- Lower layer super output area
- Leicester 025E · E01013672
- Middle layer super output area
- Leicester 025 · E02002851
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
- 105
- Primary
- 59
- Secondary
- 15
- 107 m
Oaklands School
Community special school
- 138 m
Krishna Avanti Primary School
Free schools
- 163 m
Whitehall Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,906
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 830
- Anti social behaviour 201
- Criminal damage and arson 195
- Public order 168
- Other theft 94
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LE5 6 residents
- 9,801
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
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
35
within 5 km straight-line
DOWNING DRIVE SURGERY
155 DOWNING DRIVE, EVINGTON, LEICESTER, LE5 6LP
ODS code C82030
516 m
WILLOWS HEALTH
184 COLEMAN ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 4LJ
ODS code Y00137
1.6 km
HORIZON HEALTHCARE
CATHERINE HOUSE, 2B STOUGHTON DRIVE NORTH, LEICESTER, LE5 5UB
ODS code C82088
2.2 km
EAST LEICESTER MED PRACT(S LONGWORTH)
131 UPPINGHAM ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 4BP
ODS code C82063
2.4 km
HUMBERSTONE MEDICAL CENTRE (IP JONES)
HUMBERSTONE MEDICAL CENTRE, 150 WYCOMBE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 0PR
ODS code C82033
2.4 km
ST ELIZABETH'S MEDICAL CENTRE (JA WOOD)
NETHERHALL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 1DR
ODS code C82676
2.4 km
EAST PARK MEDICAL CENTRE (RP PANDYA)
264-266 EAST PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 5FD
ODS code C82037
2.4 km
THE PRACTICE-SAYEED
352 EAST PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 5AY
ODS code C82060
2.5 km
AL-WAQAS MEDICAL CENTRE
91 ST PETERS ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 1DJ
ODS code C82099
2.6 km
JOHNSON MEDICAL PRACTICE
HILLTOP SURGERY, 22 MAIDENWELL AVENUE, LEICESTER, LE5 1BL
ODS code C82031
2.8 km
SPINNEY HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
143 ST SAVIOURS ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3HX
ODS code C82024
2.9 km
COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE (ZS OSAMA)
MOAT CENTRE, MELBOURNE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 0GU
ODS code C82643
3.0 km
HERON GP PRACTICE
MERLYN VAZ H&S CARE CTR, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code Y02469
3.0 km
HIGHFIELDS MEDICAL CENTRE
THE MERLYN VAZ CENTRE, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code C82642
3.0 km
THE CHARNWOOD PRACTICE
MERLYN VAZ HEALTH CENTRE, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code C82667
3.0 km
SEVERN SURGERY
159 UPLANDS ROAD, OADBY, LEICESTER, LE2 4NW
ODS code C82112
3.2 km
THE CENTRAL SURGERY
BROOKSBY DRIVE, OADBY, LEICESTER, LE2 5AA
ODS code C82021
3.3 km
HIGHFIELDS SURGERY (R WADHWA)
25 SEVERN STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0NN
ODS code C82116
3.3 km
DR R KAPUR & PARTNERS
ST. PETERS HEALTH CENTRE, SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82659
3.3 km
SHEFA MEDICAL PRACTICE
SPARKENHOE STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 0TA
ODS code C82080
3.3 km
Showing 20 of 35 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Susan Avenue
BCT · Goodwood
- 0.1 miles
Susan Avenue
BCT · Goodwood
- 0.1 miles
Landscape Drive
BCT · Goodwood
- 0.1 miles
Landscape Drive
BCT · Goodwood
- 0.2 miles
Mickleton Drive
BCT · Goodwood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Leicester 025E, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,989 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
1,906 published events cover 12 months, averaging 158.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 830 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.