Schools
14 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 2 secondary schools. Bosworth Academy is the nearest published school at 1.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LE9 9BJ
Newbold Verdon with Desford and Peckleton · Hinckley and Bosworth · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Hinckley and Bosworth
- Constituency
- Hinckley and Bosworth
- Postcode district
- LE9
- Postcode sector
- LE9 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE9 9BJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE9
- Postcode sector
- LE9 9
- Latitude
- 52.636199
- Longitude
- -1.270340
- British National Grid easting
- 449,476
- British National Grid northing
- 304,520
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Hinckley and Bosworth · E07000132
- Electoral ward
- Newbold Verdon with Desford and Peckleton · E05005492
- Parish or community
- E04005496
- Westminster constituency
- Hinckley and Bosworth · E14001288
- Output area
- E00187383
- Lower layer super output area
- Hinckley and Bosworth 005E · E01025876
- Middle layer super output area
- Hinckley and Bosworth 005 · E02005381
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 14
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 2
- 1.6 km
Bosworth Academy
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- 2.2 km
Ratby Primary School
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- 2.5 km
Kirby Muxloe Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 40
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 15
- Anti social behaviour 9
- Burglary 5
- Vehicle crime 4
- Criminal damage and arson 4
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LE9 9 residents
- 7,741
Age bands in LE9 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.9%
1,307 residents
656 residents
1,661 residents
1,941 residents
1,944 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
5
within 5 km straight-line
DESFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
54 MAIN STREET, DESFORD, LEICESTER, LE9 9GR
ODS code C82650
2.0 km
RATBY MEDICAL CENTRE
1A DESFORD LANE, RATBY, LEICESTER, LE6 0LE
ODS code C82634
2.0 km
FOREST MEDICAL GROUP
WARREN LANE, LEICESTER FOREST EAST, LEICESTER, LE3 3LW
ODS code C82066
3.5 km
GROBY SURGERY
26 ROOKERY LANE, GROBY, LEICESTER, LE6 0GL
ODS code C82628
4.2 km
NEWBOLD VERDON MED.PRACT.
ST. GEORGES CLOSE, NEWBOLD VERDON, LEICESTER, LE9 9PZ
ODS code C82051
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Desford Tubes
BCT · Newtown Unthank
- 0.0 miles
Desford Tubes
BCT · Newtown Unthank
- 0.3 miles
Botcheston Road
BCT · Newtown Unthank
- 0.3 miles
Botcheston Road
BCT · Newtown Unthank
- 0.5 miles
The Spinneys
BCT · Newtown Unthank
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Hinckley and Bosworth 005E, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
28,226 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
40 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 15 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.