Schools
34 open schools are in scope, including 22 primary and 5 secondary schools. Countesthorpe Academy is the nearest published school at 662 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LE8 5AA
Countesthorpe · Blaby · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Countesthorpe
- Local authority
- Blaby
- Constituency
- South Leicestershire
- Postcode district
- LE8
- Postcode sector
- LE8 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE8 5AA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE8
- Postcode sector
- LE8 5
- Latitude
- 52.557096
- Longitude
- -1.150228
- British National Grid easting
- 457,708
- British National Grid northing
- 295,810
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Blaby · E07000129
- Electoral ward
- Countesthorpe · E05015264
- Parish or community
- E04005345
- Westminster constituency
- South Leicestershire · E14001488
- Output area
- E00130011
- Lower layer super output area
- Blaby 011D · E01025619
- Middle layer super output area
- Blaby 011 · E02005343
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
- 34
- Primary
- 22
- Secondary
- 5
- 662 m
Countesthorpe Academy
Academy converter
- 670 m
Greenfield Primary School
Community school
- 1.3 km
Foxfields Academy
Free schools special
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 475
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 208
- Anti social behaviour 55
- Public order 42
- Criminal damage and arson 39
- Burglary 35
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LE8 5 residents
- 8,293
Age bands in LE8 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 24%
1,426 residents
798 residents
1,801 residents
2,259 residents
1,979 residents
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.
GP practices
10
within 5 km
COUNTESTHORPE HEALTH CENTRE
CENTRAL STREET, COUNTESTHORPE, LEICESTER, LE8 5QJ
ODS code C82002
956 m
HAZELMERE MEDICAL CENTRE
58 LUTTERWORTH ROAD, BLABY, LEICESTER, LE8 4DN
ODS code C82098
2.1 km
NORTHFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
12 VILLERS COURT, BLABY, LEICESTER, LE8 4NS
ODS code C82068
2.4 km
SOUTH WIGSTON HEALTH CTR.
80 BLABY ROAD, SOUTH WIGSTON, WIGSTON, LE18 4SE
ODS code C82079
3.0 km
BUSHLOE SURGERY
TWO STEEPLES MED CENTRE, ABINGTON CLOSE, WIGSTON, LE18 2EW
ODS code C82013
3.7 km
WIGSTON CENTRAL SURGERY
TWO STEEPLES MEDICAL CENTRE, 10 ABINGTON CLOSE, WIGSTON, LE18 2EW
ODS code C82071
3.7 km
STURDEE ROAD HEALTH AND WELLBEING CENTRE
182 STURDEE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 9DB
ODS code C82019
3.7 km
THE HEDGES MEDICAL CENTRE (SA BAILEY)
PASLEY ROAD, EYRES MONSELL, LEICESTER, LE2 9BU
ODS code C82100
3.8 km
THE LIMES MEDICAL CENTRE
65 LEICESTER ROAD, NARBOROUGH, LEICESTER, LE19 2DU
ODS code C82055
3.9 km
SAFFRON GROUP PRACTICE
509 SAFFRON LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 6UL
ODS code C82046
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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Waterloo Crescent
BCT · Countesthorpe
- 0.2 miles
Westfield Avenue
BCT · Countesthorpe
- 0.3 miles
Westfield Avenue
BCT · Countesthorpe
- 0.3 miles
Waterloo Crescent
BCT · Countesthorpe
- 0.3 miles
Bassett Avenue
BCT · Countesthorpe
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Blaby 011D, 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
25,999 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
475 published events cover 12 months, averaging 39.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 208 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.