Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 1 secondary schools. Ratcliffe College is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LE7 4SQ
Wreake Valley · Charnwood · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Leicester
- Ward
- Wreake Valley
- Local authority
- Charnwood
- Constituency
- Melton and Syston
- Postcode district
- LE7
- Postcode sector
- LE7 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE7 4SQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 August 1992
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE7
- Postcode sector
- LE7 4
- Latitude
- 52.730828
- Longitude
- -1.058463
- British National Grid easting
- 463,677
- British National Grid northing
- 315,212
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Charnwood · E07000130
- Electoral ward
- Wreake Valley · E05014689
- Parish or community
- E04005382
- Westminster constituency
- Melton and Syston · E14001357
- Output area
- E00130735
- Lower layer super output area
- Charnwood 008D · E01025769
- Middle layer super output area
- Charnwood 008 · E02005352
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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Property
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| North Lodge Farm, 174, Thrussington Road, Ratcliffe On The Wreake, Leicester, LE7 4SQ | 4 September 2020 | £960,000 |
| 84, Thrussington Road, Ratcliffe On The Wreake, Leicester, LE7 4SQ | 27 July 2004 | £639,500 |
| 82, Thrussington Road, Ratcliffe On The Wreake, Leicester, LE7 4SQ | 16 January 2004 | £800,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 12
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.2 km
Ratcliffe College
Other independent school
- 1.5 km
Thrussington Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.7 km
St Michael & All Angels Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 59
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 24
- Burglary 10
- Anti social behaviour 8
- Vehicle crime 5
- Other theft 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 23
- Postcode households
- 9
- Residents per household
- 2.6
- LE7 4 residents
- 3,748
8 female, 15 male
Age bands in LE7 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.7%
692 residents
484 residents
812 residents
1,319 residents
971 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LE7 4 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+
- 70%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 50%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 50%
- Gigabit-capable
- 50%
- 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
4
within 5 km
DR MK LAKHANI'S PRACTICE
HIGHGATE SURGERY, 5 STORER CLOSE, SILEBY, LOUGHBOROUGH, LE12 7UD
ODS code C82644
2.9 km
THE BANKS SURGERY
9 THE BANKS, SILEBY, LOUGHBOROUGH, LE12 7RD
ODS code C82600
3.2 km
THE COUNTY PRACTICE
HEALTH CENTRE, MELTON ROAD, SYSTON, LEICESTER, LE7 2EQ
ODS code C82042
3.4 km
THE JUBILEE MEDICAL PRACTICE
SYSTON HEALTH CENTRE, 1330 MELTON ROAD, SYSTON, LEICESTER, LE7 2EQ
ODS code C82078
3.4 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
- 0.6 miles
Ratcliffe College
BCT · Ratcliffe-on-the-Wreake
- 0.6 miles
Church Lane
BCT · Ratcliffe-on-the-Wreake
- 0.7 miles
Church Lane
BCT · Ratcliffe-on-the-Wreake
- 0.8 miles
Blue Lion
BCT · Thrussington
- 0.8 miles
Blue Lion
BCT · Thrussington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Charnwood 008D, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
29,210 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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.
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
- 1
- Medium risk addresses
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 2
- 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
Recorded crime
59 published events cover 12 months, averaging 4.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 24 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.