Property market
The five-year median is £1,313,250 from 2 recorded sales in LE8 9EW. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Harborough is £345,848 in June 2026, up 9.7% year on year.
LE8 9EW
Glen · Harborough · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Leicester
- Ward
- Glen
- Local authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- Harborough, Oadby and Wigston
- Postcode district
- LE8
- Postcode sector
- LE8 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE8 9EW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 1998
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE8
- Postcode sector
- LE8 9
- Latitude
- 52.578022
- Longitude
- -1.001245
- British National Grid easting
- 467,776
- British National Grid northing
- 298,267
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Harborough · E07000131
- Electoral ward
- Glen · E05011970
- Parish or community
- E04005410
- Westminster constituency
- Harborough, Oadby and Wigston · E14001266
- Output area
- E00130806
- Lower layer super output area
- Harborough 003C · E01025783
- Middle layer super output area
- Harborough 003 · E02005369
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
8 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Ivy Cottage, Rectory End, Burton Overy, Leicester, LE8 9EW | 12 February 2026 | £1,250,000 |
| De Noveray House, Rectory End, Burton Overy, Leicester, LE8 9EW | 3 March 2022 | £1,376,500 |
| Ivy Cottage, Rectory End, Burton Overy, Leicester, LE8 9EW | 17 December 2020 | £1,050,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 9
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.7 km
Great Glen St Cuthbert's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 2.0 km
LGS Stoneygate
Other independent school
- 2.7 km
Leicester Grammar School Trust
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 46
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 20
- Burglary 8
- Public order 5
- Other theft 4
- Vehicle crime 4
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 12
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 2.4
- LE8 9 residents
- 4,590
8 female, 4 male
Age bands in LE8 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.3%
844 residents
465 residents
1,044 residents
1,329 residents
1,116 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LE8 9 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
3
within 5 km
SOUTH LEICESTERSHIRE MEDICAL GROUP
SMEETON ROAD, KIBWORTH BEAUCHAMP, LEICESTER, LE8 0LG
ODS code C82001
4.7 km
THE CROFT MEDICAL CENTRE
2 GLEN ROAD, OADBY, LEICESTER, LE2 4PE
ODS code C82067
4.9 km
SEVERN SURGERY
159 UPLANDS ROAD, OADBY, LEICESTER, LE2 4NW
ODS code C82112
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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 1.2 miles
Mayns Lane
BCT · Burton Overy
- 1.2 miles
Mayns Road
BCT · Burton Overy
- 1.3 miles
Manor Cottage
BCT · Little Stretton
- 1.3 miles
Manor Cottage
BCT · Little Stretton
- 1.4 miles
Village Hall
BCT · Great Glen
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Harborough 003C, 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
25,553 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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
- 0
- 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
9 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 3 secondary schools. Great Glen St Cuthbert's Church of England Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.1 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
46 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 20 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.