Property market
The five-year median is £448,000 from 2 recorded sales in LE8 6QS. 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 6QS
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 6QS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 1996
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE8
- Postcode sector
- LE8 6
- Latitude
- 52.559177
- Longitude
- -1.177624
- British National Grid easting
- 455,848
- British National Grid northing
- 296,020
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
- E00129994
- 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
18 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Worsh Close, Whetstone, Leicester, LE8 6QS | 6 June 2025 | £455,000 |
| 7, Worsh Close, Whetstone, Leicester, LE8 6QS | 25 March 2022 | £441,000 |
| 7, Worsh Close, Whetstone, Leicester, LE8 6QS | 22 April 2016 | £315,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 32
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 6
- 208 m
Badgerbrook Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
Cosby Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
Countesthorpe Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 686
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 312
- Anti social behaviour 104
- Public order 57
- Other theft 46
- Criminal damage and arson 45
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 25
- Postcode households
- 8
- Residents per household
- 3.1
- LE8 6 residents
- 7,337
13 female, 12 male
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
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LE8 6 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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
11
within 5 km
HAZELMERE MEDICAL CENTRE
58 LUTTERWORTH ROAD, BLABY, LEICESTER, LE8 4DN
ODS code C82098
1.9 km
NORTHFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
12 VILLERS COURT, BLABY, LEICESTER, LE8 4NS
ODS code C82068
2.2 km
THE LIMES MEDICAL CENTRE
65 LEICESTER ROAD, NARBOROUGH, LEICESTER, LE19 2DU
ODS code C82055
2.2 km
COUNTESTHORPE HEALTH CENTRE
CENTRAL STREET, COUNTESTHORPE, LEICESTER, LE8 5QJ
ODS code C82002
2.8 km
ENDERBY MEDICAL CENTRE
SHORTRIDGE LANE, ENDERBY, LEICESTER, LE19 4LY
ODS code C82631
3.9 km
SOUTH WIGSTON HEALTH CTR.
80 BLABY ROAD, SOUTH WIGSTON, WIGSTON, LE18 4SE
ODS code C82079
4.0 km
THE HEDGES MEDICAL CENTRE (SA BAILEY)
PASLEY ROAD, EYRES MONSELL, LEICESTER, LE2 9BU
ODS code C82100
4.1 km
STURDEE ROAD HEALTH AND WELLBEING CENTRE
182 STURDEE ROAD, LEICESTER, LE2 9DB
ODS code C82019
4.2 km
THE ORCHARD MED PRACTICE
ORCHARD ROAD, BROUGHTON ASTLEY, LEICESTER, LE9 6RG
ODS code C82093
4.6 km
BUSHLOE SURGERY
TWO STEEPLES MED CENTRE, ABINGTON CLOSE, WIGSTON, LE18 2EW
ODS code C82013
4.9 km
WIGSTON CENTRAL SURGERY
TWO STEEPLES MEDICAL CENTRE, 10 ABINGTON CLOSE, WIGSTON, LE18 2EW
ODS code C82071
4.9 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
Wright Close
BCT · Whetstone
- 0.1 miles
Wright Close
BCT · Whetstone
- 0.1 miles
Springwell Lane
BCT · Whetstone
- 0.1 miles
Springwell Lane
BCT · Whetstone
- 0.2 miles
Otter 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 4
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
32 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 6 secondary schools. Badgerbrook Primary School is the nearest published school at 208 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
686 published events cover 12 months, averaging 57.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 312 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.