Schools
61 open schools are in scope, including 34 primary and 9 secondary schools. Little Hill Primary is the nearest published school at 155 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LE8 2BY
Wigston All Saints · Oadby and Wigston · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Wigston All Saints
- Local authority
- Oadby and Wigston
- Constituency
- Harborough, Oadby and Wigston
- Postcode district
- LE8
- Postcode sector
- LE8 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE8 2BY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1992
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE8
- Postcode sector
- LE8 2
- Latitude
- 52.580877
- Longitude
- -1.113655
- British National Grid easting
- 460,155
- British National Grid northing
- 298,485
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Oadby and Wigston · E07000135
- Electoral ward
- Wigston All Saints · E05005537
- Parish or community
- E43000108
- Westminster constituency
- Harborough, Oadby and Wigston · E14001266
- Output area
- E00131876
- Lower layer super output area
- Oadby and Wigston 007A · E01025990
- Middle layer super output area
- Oadby and Wigston 007 · E02005416
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 LE8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 61
- Primary
- 34
- Secondary
- 9
- 155 m
Little Hill Primary
Academy converter
- 167 m
Wigston Menphys Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
- 226 m
Wigston Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,137
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 807
- Shoplifting 258
- Anti social behaviour 230
- Public order 195
- Criminal damage and arson 189
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
18
within 5 km
BUSHLOE SURGERY
TWO STEEPLES MED CENTRE, ABINGTON CLOSE, WIGSTON, LE18 2EW
ODS code C82013
349 m
WIGSTON CENTRAL SURGERY
TWO STEEPLES MEDICAL CENTRE, 10 ABINGTON CLOSE, WIGSTON, LE18 2EW
ODS code C82071
349 m
SOUTH WIGSTON HEALTH CTR.
80 BLABY ROAD, SOUTH WIGSTON, WIGSTON, LE18 4SE
ODS code C82079
1.1 km
STURDEE ROAD HEALTH AND WELLBEING CENTRE
182 STURDEE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 9DB
ODS code C82019
2.3 km
SPIRIT PRIMARY CARE LIMITED-ASQUITH
693 WELFORD ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 6FQ
ODS code C82614
2.3 km
ROSEMEAD DRIVE SURGERY
103 ROSEMEAD DRIVE, OADBY, LEICESTER, LE2 5PP
ODS code C82048
2.5 km
THE HEDGES MEDICAL CENTRE (SA BAILEY)
PASLEY ROAD, EYRES MONSELL, LEICESTER, LE2 9BU
ODS code C82100
2.5 km
THE CENTRAL SURGERY
BROOKSBY DRIVE, OADBY, LEICESTER, LE2 5AA
ODS code C82021
2.9 km
SAFFRON GROUP PRACTICE
509 SAFFRON LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 6UL
ODS code C82046
2.9 km
COUNTESTHORPE HEALTH CENTRE
CENTRAL STREET, COUNTESTHORPE, LEICESTER, LE8 5QJ
ODS code C82002
3.3 km
THE CROFT MEDICAL CENTRE
2 GLEN ROAD, OADBY, LEICESTER, LE2 4PE
ODS code C82067
3.4 km
NORTHFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
12 VILLERS COURT, BLABY, LEICESTER, LE8 4NS
ODS code C82068
3.5 km
HAZELMERE MEDICAL CENTRE
58 LUTTERWORTH ROAD, BLABY, LEICESTER, LE8 4DN
ODS code C82098
3.5 km
THE SURGERY @ AYLESTONE
672 AYLESTONE ROAD, FOSSE ROAD SOUTH, LEICESTER, LE2 8PR
ODS code C82669
3.7 km
AYLESTONE HEALTH CENTRE
15 HALL LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 8SF
ODS code C82092
3.8 km
SEVERN SURGERY
159 UPLANDS ROAD, OADBY, LEICESTER, LE2 4NW
ODS code C82112
3.8 km
VICTORIA PARK HEALTH CENTRE
203 VICTORIA PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 1XD
ODS code C82124
4.3 km
HORIZON HEALTHCARE
CATHERINE HOUSE, 2B STOUGHTON DRIVE NORTH, LEICESTER, LE5 5UB
ODS code C82088
4.7 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
- 0.1 miles
Pochins Close
BCT · Wigston Magna
- 0.1 miles
Birkett House School
BCT · Wigston Magna
- 0.1 miles
Parlour Close
BCT · Wigston Magna
- 0.2 miles
Parlour Close
BCT · Wigston Magna
- 0.2 miles
Birkett House School
BCT · Wigston Magna
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Oadby and Wigston 007A, 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
25,905 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 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
2,137 published events cover 12 months, averaging 178.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 807 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.