Schools
13 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 2 secondary schools. Heather Primary School is the nearest published school at 226 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LE6 1RJ
Sence Valley · North West Leicestershire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Sence Valley
- Local authority
- North West Leicestershire
- Constituency
- North West Leicestershire
- Postcode district
- LE6
- Postcode sector
- LE6 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE6 1RJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1992
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE6
- Postcode sector
- LE6 1
- Latitude
- 52.691879
- Longitude
- -1.425047
- British National Grid easting
- 438,957
- British National Grid northing
- 310,619
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- North West Leicestershire · E07000134
- Electoral ward
- Sence Valley · E05010121
- Parish or community
- E04005551
- Westminster constituency
- North West Leicestershire · E14001404
- Output area
- E00131636
- Lower layer super output area
- North West Leicestershire 013D · E01025941
- Middle layer super output area
- North West Leicestershire 013 · E02005409
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 LE6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 13
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 2
- 226 m
Heather Primary School
Community school
- 1.6 km
St Denys Church of England Infant School, Ibstock
Voluntary controlled school
- 1.6 km
Ibstock Junior School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 180
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 75
- Anti social behaviour 19
- Burglary 18
- Vehicle crime 18
- Public order 17
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
2
within 5 km straight-line
IBSTOCK & BARLESTONE SURGERIES
132 HIGH STREET, IBSTOCK, LE67 6JP
ODS code C82012
1.8 km
HUGGLESCOTE SURGERY
151 GRANGE ROAD, HUGGLESCOTE, COALVILLE, LE67 2BS
ODS code C82096
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Mill Lane
BCT · Heather
- 0.1 miles
Main Street
BCT · Heather
- 0.1 miles
Mill Lane
BCT · Heather
- 0.1 miles
Main Street
BCT · Heather
- 0.2 miles
Blackett Drive
BCT · Heather
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North West Leicestershire 013D, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
23,828 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
180 published events cover 12 months, averaging 15 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 75 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.