Schools
26 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 3 secondary schools. Wreake Valley Academy is the nearest published school at 588 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LE7 8EL
Wreake Valley · Charnwood · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Wreake Valley
- Local authority
- Charnwood
- Constituency
- Melton and Syston
- Postcode district
- LE7
- Postcode sector
- LE7 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE7 8EL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1992
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE7
- Postcode sector
- LE7 8
- Latitude
- 52.699356
- Longitude
- -1.066702
- British National Grid easting
- 463,166
- British National Grid northing
- 311,704
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Charnwood · E07000130
- Electoral ward
- Wreake Valley · E05014689
- Parish or community
- E04005390
- Westminster constituency
- Melton and Syston · E14001357
- Output area
- E00130665
- Lower layer super output area
- Charnwood 018B · E01025753
- Middle layer super output area
- Charnwood 018 · E02005362
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 LE7
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 26
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 3
- 588 m
Wreake Valley Academy
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- 638 m
St Peter and St Paul Church of England Academy
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- 973 m
The Merton Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 912
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 342
- Anti social behaviour 104
- Shoplifting 97
- Criminal damage and arson 85
- Other theft 71
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
9
within 5 km straight-line
THE COUNTY PRACTICE
HEALTH CENTRE, MELTON ROAD, SYSTON, LEICESTER, LE7 2EQ
ODS code C82042
254 m
THE JUBILEE MEDICAL PRACTICE
SYSTON HEALTH CENTRE, 1330 MELTON ROAD, SYSTON, LEICESTER, LE7 2EQ
ODS code C82078
254 m
SILVERDALE MEDICAL CENTRE
6 SILVERDALE DRIVE, THURMASTON, LEICESTER, LE4 8NN
ODS code C82627
3.4 km
THURMASTON HEALTH CENTRE
573A MELTON ROAD, THURMASTON, LEICESTER, LE4 8EA
ODS code C82678
3.9 km
BIRSTALL MEDICAL CENTRE
4 WHILES LANE, BIRSTALL, LEICESTER, LE4 4EE
ODS code C82091
4.2 km
DR MK LAKHANI'S PRACTICE
HIGHGATE SURGERY, 5 STORER CLOSE, SILEBY, LOUGHBOROUGH, LE12 7UD
ODS code C82644
4.3 km
THE BANKS SURGERY
9 THE BANKS, SILEBY, LOUGHBOROUGH, LE12 7RD
ODS code C82600
4.4 km
GREENGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
1 GREENGATE LANE, BIRSTALL, LEICESTER, LE4 3JF
ODS code C82003
4.7 km
SPIRIT PRIMARY CARE LTD-RUSHEY MEAD
RUSHEY MEAD HEALTH CENTRE, 8 LOCKERBIE WALK, LEICESTER, LE4 7ZX
ODS code C82680
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Tentercroft Avenue
BCT · Syston
- 0.2 miles
Tentercroft Avenue
BCT · Syston
- 0.2 miles
Health Centre
BCT · Syston
- 0.2 miles
Wreake Valley College
BCT · Syston
- 0.2 miles
Wreake Valley College
BCT · Syston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Charnwood 018B, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
14,297 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
912 published events cover 12 months, averaging 76 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 342 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.