Schools
29 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 5 secondary schools. Barwell Infant School is the nearest published school at 316 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LE9 8FQ
Barwell · Hinckley and Bosworth · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Leicester
- Ward
- Barwell
- Local authority
- Hinckley and Bosworth
- Constituency
- Hinckley and Bosworth
- Postcode district
- LE9
- Postcode sector
- LE9 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE9 8FQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE9
- Postcode sector
- LE9 8
- Latitude
- 52.571559
- Longitude
- -1.343785
- British National Grid easting
- 444,571
- British National Grid northing
- 297,282
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Hinckley and Bosworth · E07000132
- Electoral ward
- Barwell · E05005481
- Parish or community
- E04005514
- Westminster constituency
- Hinckley and Bosworth · E14001288
- Output area
- E00170659
- Lower layer super output area
- Hinckley and Bosworth 007C · E01025823
- Middle layer super output area
- Hinckley and Bosworth 007 · E02005383
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 LE9
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 152, Kirkby Road, Barwell, Leicester, LE9 8FQ | 3 May 2002 | £182,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 29
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 5
- 316 m
Barwell Infant School
Community school
- 687 m
Barwell Church of England Academy
Academy converter
- 741 m
The Fusion Academy
Free schools special
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 789
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 390
- Anti social behaviour 88
- Criminal damage and arson 82
- Public order 64
- Other theft 54
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 35
- Postcode households
- 14
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- LE9 8 residents
- 9,588
21 female, 14 male
Age bands in LE9 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.3%
1,521 residents
888 residents
2,464 residents
2,592 residents
2,022 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LE9 8 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+
- 70%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 70%
- Gigabit-capable
- 70%
- 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
8
within 5 km
BARWELL & HOLLYCROFT MEDICAL CENTRES
BARWELL MEDICAL CENTRE, 55 HIGH STREET, BARWELL, LEICESTER, LE9 8DS
ODS code C82061
715 m
HEATH LANE SURGERY
HEATH LANE, EARL SHILTON, LEICESTER, LE9 7PB
ODS code C82121
1.5 km
CASTLE MEAD MEDICAL CENTRE
HILL STREET, HINCKLEY, LE10 1DS
ODS code C82075
3.8 km
MAPLES FAMILY MED.PRACT.
35 HILL STREET, HINCKLEY, LE10 1DS
ODS code C82047
3.8 km
THE CENTRE SURGERY
HILL STREET, HINCKLEY, LE10 1DS
ODS code C82082
3.8 km
STATION VIEW HEALTH CENTRE
SOUTHFIELD ROAD, HINCKLEY, LE10 1UA
ODS code C82043
4.1 km
THE BURBAGE SURGERY
TILTON ROAD, BURBAGE, HINCKLEY, LE10 2SE
ODS code C82054
4.8 km
THE OLD SCHOOL SURGERY
HINCKLEY ROAD, STONEY STANTON, LEICESTER, LE9 4LJ
ODS code C82027
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
Brockey Close
BCT · Barwell
- 0.1 miles
Sports Club
BCT · Barwell
- 0.1 miles
Arthur Street
BCT · Barwell
- 0.1 miles
Arthur Street
BCT · Barwell
- 0.1 miles
Kingsfield Road
BCT · Barwell
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Hinckley and Bosworth 007C, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
12,038 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
Recorded crime
789 published events cover 12 months, averaging 65.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 390 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.