Schools
16 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 2 secondary schools. Castleview School is the nearest published school at 630 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LE6 5EQ
Ashby Castle · North West Leicestershire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Ashby Castle
- Local authority
- North West Leicestershire
- Constituency
- North West Leicestershire
- Postcode district
- LE6
- Postcode sector
- LE6 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE6 5EQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1992
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE6
- Postcode sector
- LE6 5
- Latitude
- 52.742034
- Longitude
- -1.461862
- British National Grid easting
- 436,427
- British National Grid northing
- 316,179
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- North West Leicestershire · E07000134
- Electoral ward
- Ashby Castle · E05010091
- Parish or community
- E04005542
- Westminster constituency
- North West Leicestershire · E14001404
- Output area
- E00131508
- Lower layer super output area
- North West Leicestershire 006A · E01025914
- Middle layer super output area
- North West Leicestershire 006 · E02005402
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
- 16
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 2
- 630 m
Castleview School
Other independent special school
- 724 m
Ashby School
Academy converter
- 991 m
Ivanhoe School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 736
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 296
- Anti social behaviour 94
- Public order 73
- Vehicle crime 69
- Criminal damage and arson 63
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
1
within 5 km straight-line
CASTLE MEDICAL GROUP
ASCEBI HOUSE, 118 BURTON ROAD, ASHBY-DE-LA-ZOUCH, LE65 2LP
ODS code C82014
1.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
The Croft
BCT · Ashby-de-la-Zouch
- 0.1 miles
Abbotsford Road
BCT · Ashby-de-la-Zouch
- 0.1 miles
The Croft
BCT · Ashby-de-la-Zouch
- 0.1 miles
Hastings Way
BCT · Ashby-de-la-Zouch
- 0.1 miles
Hastings Way
BCT · Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North West Leicestershire 006A, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
33,359 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
736 published events cover 12 months, averaging 61.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 296 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.