Schools
62 open schools are in scope, including 36 primary and 9 secondary schools. Wigston Academy is the nearest published school at 0 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LE8 2DT
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 2DT
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1992
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE8
- Postcode sector
- LE8 2
- Latitude
- 52.581959
- Longitude
- -1.116482
- British National Grid easting
- 459,962
- British National Grid northing
- 298,603
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
- E00131891
- Lower layer super output area
- Oadby and Wigston 005A · E01025992
- Middle layer super output area
- Oadby and Wigston 005 · E02005414
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
- 62
- Primary
- 36
- Secondary
- 9
- 0 m
Wigston Academy
Academy converter
- 170 m
Wigston Birkett House Community Special School
Academy special converter
- 194 m
Wigston College
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,167
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 810
- Shoplifting 258
- Anti social behaviour 233
- Criminal damage and arson 198
- Public order 197
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
20
within 5 km
BUSHLOE SURGERY
TWO STEEPLES MED CENTRE, ABINGTON CLOSE, WIGSTON, LE18 2EW
ODS code C82013
152 m
WIGSTON CENTRAL SURGERY
TWO STEEPLES MEDICAL CENTRE, 10 ABINGTON CLOSE, WIGSTON, LE18 2EW
ODS code C82071
152 m
SOUTH WIGSTON HEALTH CTR.
80 BLABY ROAD, SOUTH WIGSTON, WIGSTON, LE18 4SE
ODS code C82079
876 m
STURDEE ROAD HEALTH AND WELLBEING CENTRE
182 STURDEE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 9DB
ODS code C82019
2.1 km
SPIRIT PRIMARY CARE LIMITED-ASQUITH
693 WELFORD ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 6FQ
ODS code C82614
2.2 km
THE HEDGES MEDICAL CENTRE (SA BAILEY)
PASLEY ROAD, EYRES MONSELL, LEICESTER, LE2 9BU
ODS code C82100
2.3 km
ROSEMEAD DRIVE SURGERY
103 ROSEMEAD DRIVE, OADBY, LEICESTER, LE2 5PP
ODS code C82048
2.6 km
SAFFRON GROUP PRACTICE
509 SAFFRON LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 6UL
ODS code C82046
2.7 km
THE CENTRAL SURGERY
BROOKSBY DRIVE, OADBY, LEICESTER, LE2 5AA
ODS code C82021
3.0 km
NORTHFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
12 VILLERS COURT, BLABY, LEICESTER, LE8 4NS
ODS code C82068
3.3 km
HAZELMERE MEDICAL CENTRE
58 LUTTERWORTH ROAD, BLABY, LEICESTER, LE8 4DN
ODS code C82098
3.3 km
COUNTESTHORPE HEALTH CENTRE
CENTRAL STREET, COUNTESTHORPE, LEICESTER, LE8 5QJ
ODS code C82002
3.3 km
THE SURGERY @ AYLESTONE
672 AYLESTONE ROAD, FOSSE ROAD SOUTH, LEICESTER, LE2 8PR
ODS code C82669
3.5 km
THE CROFT MEDICAL CENTRE
2 GLEN ROAD, OADBY, LEICESTER, LE2 4PE
ODS code C82067
3.5 km
AYLESTONE HEALTH CENTRE
15 HALL LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 8SF
ODS code C82092
3.6 km
SEVERN SURGERY
159 UPLANDS ROAD, OADBY, LEICESTER, LE2 4NW
ODS code C82112
3.9 km
VICTORIA PARK HEALTH CENTRE
203 VICTORIA PARK ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 1XD
ODS code C82124
4.1 km
HORIZON HEALTHCARE
CATHERINE HOUSE, 2B STOUGHTON DRIVE NORTH, LEICESTER, LE5 5UB
ODS code C82088
4.6 km
KINGSWAY SURGERY
23 KINGSWAY, LEICESTER, LE3 2JN
ODS code C82039
4.9 km
WALNUT ST MED CTR
110 WALNUT STREET, LEICESTER, LE2 7LE
ODS code C82662
5.0 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
Parlour Close
BCT · Wigston Magna
- 0.1 miles
Guthlaxton College
BCT · Wigston Magna
- 0.1 miles
Parlour Close
BCT · Wigston Magna
- 0.2 miles
Guthlaxton College
BCT · Wigston Magna
- 0.2 miles
Birkett House School
BCT · Wigston Magna
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Oadby and Wigston 005A, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
8,895 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
2,167 published events cover 12 months, averaging 180.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 810 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.