Schools
37 open schools are in scope, including 24 primary and 6 secondary schools. Foxfields Academy is the nearest published school at 360 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LE8 3HF
Blaby · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Blaby
- Local authority
- Blaby
- Constituency
- South Leicestershire
- Postcode district
- LE8
- Postcode sector
- LE8 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE8 3HF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE8
- Postcode sector
- LE8 3
- Latitude
- 52.565476
- Longitude
- -1.157885
- British National Grid easting
- 457,178
- British National Grid northing
- 296,736
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Blaby · E07000129
- Electoral ward
- Blaby · E05015260
- Parish or community
- E04005342
- Westminster constituency
- South Leicestershire · E14001488
- Output area
- E00187413
- Lower layer super output area
- Blaby 008C · E01025612
- Middle layer super output area
- Blaby 008 · E02005340
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
- 37
- Primary
- 24
- Secondary
- 6
- 360 m
Foxfields Academy
Free schools special
- 571 m
Blaby Thistly Meadow Primary School
Community school
- 1.0 km
Countesthorpe Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 919
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 419
- Anti social behaviour 130
- Criminal damage and arson 82
- Public order 76
- Other theft 59
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
15
within 5 km straight-line
HAZELMERE MEDICAL CENTRE
58 LUTTERWORTH ROAD, BLABY, LEICESTER, LE8 4DN
ODS code C82098
1.0 km
NORTHFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
12 VILLERS COURT, BLABY, LEICESTER, LE8 4NS
ODS code C82068
1.3 km
COUNTESTHORPE HEALTH CENTRE
CENTRAL STREET, COUNTESTHORPE, LEICESTER, LE8 5QJ
ODS code C82002
1.9 km
SOUTH WIGSTON HEALTH CTR.
80 BLABY ROAD, SOUTH WIGSTON, WIGSTON, LE18 4SE
ODS code C82079
2.6 km
STURDEE ROAD HEALTH AND WELLBEING CENTRE
182 STURDEE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 9DB
ODS code C82019
2.9 km
THE HEDGES MEDICAL CENTRE (SA BAILEY)
PASLEY ROAD, EYRES MONSELL, LEICESTER, LE2 9BU
ODS code C82100
3.0 km
THE LIMES MEDICAL CENTRE
65 LEICESTER ROAD, NARBOROUGH, LEICESTER, LE19 2DU
ODS code C82055
3.0 km
BUSHLOE SURGERY
TWO STEEPLES MED CENTRE, ABINGTON CLOSE, WIGSTON, LE18 2EW
ODS code C82013
3.4 km
WIGSTON CENTRAL SURGERY
TWO STEEPLES MEDICAL CENTRE, 10 ABINGTON CLOSE, WIGSTON, LE18 2EW
ODS code C82071
3.4 km
THE SURGERY @ AYLESTONE
672 AYLESTONE ROAD, FOSSE ROAD SOUTH, LEICESTER, LE2 8PR
ODS code C82669
4.1 km
SAFFRON GROUP PRACTICE
509 SAFFRON LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 6UL
ODS code C82046
4.1 km
ENDERBY MEDICAL CENTRE
SHORTRIDGE LANE, ENDERBY, LEICESTER, LE19 4LY
ODS code C82631
4.4 km
AYLESTONE HEALTH CENTRE
15 HALL LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 8SF
ODS code C82092
4.5 km
KINGSWAY SURGERY
23 KINGSWAY, LEICESTER, LE3 2JN
ODS code C82039
4.7 km
SPIRIT PRIMARY CARE LIMITED-ASQUITH
693 WELFORD ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 6FQ
ODS code C82614
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Dorchester Close
BCT · Blaby
- 0.1 miles
Dorchester Close
BCT · Blaby
- 0.1 miles
Wykeham Road
BCT · Blaby
- 0.1 miles
Scouting Way
BCT · Blaby
- 0.1 miles
Scouting Way
BCT · Blaby
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Blaby 008C, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,726 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
919 published events cover 12 months, averaging 76.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 419 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.