Schools
13 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 2 secondary schools. Thornton Primary School is the nearest published school at 164 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LE6 1AY
Ratby, Bagworth and Thornton · Hinckley and Bosworth · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Hinckley and Bosworth
- Constituency
- Mid Leicestershire
- Postcode district
- LE6
- Postcode sector
- LE6 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE6 1AY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1992
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE6
- Postcode sector
- LE6 1
- Latitude
- 52.665825
- Longitude
- -1.316276
- British National Grid easting
- 446,336
- British National Grid northing
- 307,785
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Hinckley and Bosworth · E07000132
- Electoral ward
- Ratby, Bagworth and Thornton · E05005493
- Parish or community
- E04005491
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Leicestershire · E14001364
- Output area
- E00131308
- Lower layer super output area
- Hinckley and Bosworth 001G · E01035095
- Middle layer super output area
- Hinckley and Bosworth 001 · E02005377
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
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Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 13
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 2
- 164 m
Thornton Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.8 km
South Charnwood High School
Academy converter
- 1.8 km
Clovelly House School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 64
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 19
- Anti social behaviour 10
- Public order 9
- Other theft 8
- Criminal damage and arson 6
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- Postcode sector residents
- Not available
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 not available.
GP practices
3
within 5 km
MARKFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
24 CHITTERMAN WAY, MARKFIELD, LE67 9WU
ODS code C82028
3.6 km
NEWBOLD VERDON MED.PRACT.
ST. GEORGES CLOSE, NEWBOLD VERDON, LEICESTER, LE9 9PZ
ODS code C82051
3.9 km
DESFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
54 MAIN STREET, DESFORD, LEICESTER, LE9 9GR
ODS code C82650
4.5 km
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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Hawthorne Drive
BCT · Thornton
- 0.1 miles
Hawthorne Drive
BCT · Thornton
- 0.1 miles
Mill Lane
BCT · Thornton
- 0.2 miles
Mill Lane
BCT · Thornton
- 0.2 miles
Bricklayer's Arms
BCT · Thornton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Hinckley and Bosworth 001G, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
12,980 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
64 published events cover 12 months, averaging 5.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 19 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.