Property market
The five-year median is £354,500 from 2 recorded sales in LE7 9SL. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Leicester is £228,618 in June 2026, up 1.7% year on year.
LE7 9SL
Humberstone & Hamilton · Leicester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Leicester
- Local authority
- Leicester
- Constituency
- Leicester East
- Postcode district
- LE7
- Postcode sector
- LE7 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE7 9SL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE7
- Postcode sector
- LE7 9
- Latitude
- 52.650434
- Longitude
- -1.048969
- British National Grid easting
- 464,436
- British National Grid northing
- 306,278
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Leicester · E06000016
- Electoral ward
- Humberstone & Hamilton · E05010467
- Parish or community
- E43000015
- Westminster constituency
- Leicester East · E14001326
- Output area
- E00069146
- Lower layer super output area
- Leicester 037G · E01034017
- Middle layer super output area
- Leicester 037 · E02006815
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
Property
10 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 3, Barkford Close, Scraptoft, Leicester, LE7 9SL | 18 June 2025 | £384,000 |
| 2, Barkford Close, Scraptoft, Leicester, LE7 9SL | 28 March 2024 | £325,000 |
| 6, Barkford Close, Scraptoft, Leicester, LE7 9SL | 30 May 2014 | £155,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 72
- Primary
- 46
- Secondary
- 9
- 262 m
Netherhall Mead Academy
Academy special converter
- 280 m
Orchard Mead Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 471 m
Elmbrook School
Pupil referral unit
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,251
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 934
- Criminal damage and arson 308
- Anti social behaviour 238
- Public order 218
- Shoplifting 109
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 13
- Postcode households
- 6
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- LE7 9 residents
- 11,956
8 female, 5 male
Age bands in LE7 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.2%
1,976 residents
1,172 residents
2,782 residents
3,330 residents
2,802 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LE7 9 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
22
within 5 km
ST ELIZABETH'S MEDICAL CENTRE (JA WOOD)
NETHERHALL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 1DR
ODS code C82676
861 m
JOHNSON MEDICAL PRACTICE
HILLTOP SURGERY, 22 MAIDENWELL AVENUE, LEICESTER, LE5 1BL
ODS code C82031
1.3 km
HUMBERSTONE MEDICAL CENTRE (IP JONES)
HUMBERSTONE MEDICAL CENTRE, 150 WYCOMBE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 0PR
ODS code C82033
2.8 km
DOWNING DRIVE SURGERY
155 DOWNING DRIVE, EVINGTON, LEICESTER, LE5 6LP
ODS code C82030
3.0 km
WILLOWS HEALTH
184 COLEMAN ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 4LJ
ODS code Y00137
3.2 km
EAST LEICESTER MED PRACT(S LONGWORTH)
131 UPPINGHAM ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 4BP
ODS code C82063
3.2 km
SILVERDALE MEDICAL CENTRE
6 SILVERDALE DRIVE, THURMASTON, LEICESTER, LE4 8NN
ODS code C82627
3.7 km
SPIRIT PRIMARY CARE LTD-RUSHEY MEAD
RUSHEY MEAD HEALTH CENTRE, 8 LOCKERBIE WALK, LEICESTER, LE4 7ZX
ODS code C82680
4.0 km
HERON GP PRACTICE
MERLYN VAZ H&S CARE CTR, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code Y02469
4.2 km
HIGHFIELDS MEDICAL CENTRE
THE MERLYN VAZ CENTRE, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code C82642
4.2 km
THE CHARNWOOD PRACTICE
MERLYN VAZ HEALTH CENTRE, 1 SPINNEY HILL ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3GH
ODS code C82667
4.2 km
EAST PARK MEDICAL CENTRE (RP PANDYA)
264-266 EAST PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 5FD
ODS code C82037
4.2 km
SPINNEY HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
143 ST SAVIOURS ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 3HX
ODS code C82024
4.3 km
DR B MODI
122 CANON STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6NL
ODS code C82084
4.3 km
THURMASTON HEALTH CENTRE
573A MELTON ROAD, THURMASTON, LEICESTER, LE4 8EA
ODS code C82678
4.4 km
THE PRACTICE-SAYEED
352 EAST PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE5 5AY
ODS code C82060
4.5 km
AL-WAQAS MEDICAL CENTRE
91 ST PETERS ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 1DJ
ODS code C82099
4.7 km
BROADHURST STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
10 BROADHURST STREET, LEICESTER, LE4 6NF
ODS code C82651
4.7 km
HORIZON HEALTHCARE
CATHERINE HOUSE, 2B STOUGHTON DRIVE NORTH, LEICESTER, LE5 5UB
ODS code C82088
4.7 km
COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE (ZS OSAMA)
MOAT CENTRE, MELBOURNE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 0GU
ODS code C82643
4.8 km
Showing 20 of 22 matching practices.
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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Barkford Close
BCT · Nether Hall
- 0.1 miles
Barkford Close
BCT · Nether Hall
- 0.1 miles
Keyham Lane West
BCT · Nether Hall
- 0.1 miles
Orchard Mead Academy
BCT · Nether Hall
- 0.1 miles
Briarfield Road
BCT · Nether Hall
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Leicester 037G, 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
16,106 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 3 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.
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
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- 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
Schools
72 open schools are in scope, including 46 primary and 9 secondary schools. Netherhall Mead Academy is the nearest published school at 262 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,251 published events cover 12 months, averaging 187.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 934 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.