Property market
The five-year median is £170,000 from 1 recorded sale in LE8 6AH. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Blaby is £282,918 in June 2026, up 0.3% year on year.
LE8 6AH
Cosby & South Whetstone · Blaby · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Leicester
- Local authority
- Blaby
- Constituency
- South Leicestershire
- Postcode district
- LE8
- Postcode sector
- LE8 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE8 6AH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2023
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE8
- Postcode sector
- LE8 6
- Latitude
- 52.566397
- Longitude
- -1.185456
- British National Grid easting
- 455,308
- British National Grid northing
- 296,817
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Blaby · E07000129
- Electoral ward
- Cosby & South Whetstone · E05015263
- Parish or community
- E04005363
- Westminster constituency
- South Leicestershire · E14001488
- Output area
- E00187365
- Lower layer super output area
- Blaby 009A · E01025615
- Middle layer super output area
- Blaby 009 · E02005341
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
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 39, Martin Close, Whetstone, Leicester, LE8 6AH | 29 May 2026 | £170,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 33
- Primary
- 22
- Secondary
- 6
- 833 m
St Peter's Church of England Primary School Whetstone
Academy converter
- 834 m
Badgerbrook Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
Cosby Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 846
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 377
- Anti social behaviour 136
- Criminal damage and arson 79
- Public order 70
- Other theft 50
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LE8 6 residents
- 7,337
Age bands in LE8 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.8%
1,400 residents
842 residents
1,951 residents
2,096 residents
1,270 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.
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
13
within 5 km straight-line
THE LIMES MEDICAL CENTRE
65 LEICESTER ROAD, NARBOROUGH, LEICESTER, LE19 2DU
ODS code C82055
1.3 km
HAZELMERE MEDICAL CENTRE
58 LUTTERWORTH ROAD, BLABY, LEICESTER, LE8 4DN
ODS code C82098
1.7 km
NORTHFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
12 VILLERS COURT, BLABY, LEICESTER, LE8 4NS
ODS code C82068
1.8 km
ENDERBY MEDICAL CENTRE
SHORTRIDGE LANE, ENDERBY, LEICESTER, LE19 4LY
ODS code C82631
2.9 km
COUNTESTHORPE HEALTH CENTRE
CENTRAL STREET, COUNTESTHORPE, LEICESTER, LE8 5QJ
ODS code C82002
3.6 km
THE HEDGES MEDICAL CENTRE (SA BAILEY)
PASLEY ROAD, EYRES MONSELL, LEICESTER, LE2 9BU
ODS code C82100
3.8 km
STURDEE ROAD HEALTH AND WELLBEING CENTRE
182 STURDEE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 9DB
ODS code C82019
3.9 km
SOUTH WIGSTON HEALTH CTR.
80 BLABY ROAD, SOUTH WIGSTON, WIGSTON, LE18 4SE
ODS code C82079
4.1 km
KINGSWAY SURGERY
23 KINGSWAY, LEICESTER, LE3 2JN
ODS code C82039
4.5 km
THE SURGERY @ AYLESTONE
672 AYLESTONE ROAD, FOSSE ROAD SOUTH, LEICESTER, LE2 8PR
ODS code C82669
4.5 km
THE ORCHARD MED PRACTICE
ORCHARD ROAD, BROUGHTON ASTLEY, LEICESTER, LE9 6RG
ODS code C82093
4.8 km
SAFFRON GROUP PRACTICE
509 SAFFRON LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 6UL
ODS code C82046
4.9 km
AYLESTONE HEALTH CENTRE
15 HALL LANE, LEICESTER, LE2 8SF
ODS code C82092
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Sports Ground
BCT · Whetstone
- 0.3 miles
Sports Ground
BCT · Whetstone
- 0.3 miles
The Kaffir Inn
BCT · Whetstone
- 0.3 miles
The Kaffir Inn
BCT · Whetstone
- 0.3 miles
Bridge Way
BCT · Whetstone
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Blaby 009A, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
31,684 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
Schools
33 open schools are in scope, including 22 primary and 6 secondary schools. St Peter's Church of England Primary School Whetstone is the nearest published school at 833 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
846 published events cover 12 months, averaging 70.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 377 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.