LE5
Postcode districtPostcode district covering Leicester, North Evington and Spinney Hills, in Leicester.
Approximate outline worked out by Open Index from the ONS Postcode Directory: each census output area belongs to the district that holds most of its postcodes. People, homes, recorded crime and broadband add up those output areas. House sales count every sale with an LE5 postcode. How census figures are added up
Gigabit coverage by postcode district
Connected Nations (Ofcom) · January 2026
In LE5, 99.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How LE5 compares
Each dot is a postcode district. The black line marks the middle one.
Is LE5 safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in LE5 at a rate of 68.7 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 86.0 per 1,000 people across the LE postcode area.
In August 2026 alone, 656 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in LE5.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,863), other crime (1,256) and anti-social behaviour (970).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in LE5 was 75.1 per 1,000 people.
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Deprivation in LE5, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so LE5 has no single figure. Of its 50 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 15 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 10 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in LE5
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leicester 011C | 2,970 | 110.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.1% |
| Leicester 011D | 2,710 | 72.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.7% |
| Leicester 013A | 2,298 | 93.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Leicester 013B | 1,615 | 104.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.7% |
| Leicester 013C | 1,476 | 16.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.8% |
| Leicester 013D | 1,673 | 38.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Leicester 013E | 1,453 | 132.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Leicester 017A | 2,654 | 79.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.9% |
| Leicester 017B | 2,213 | 33.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.8% |
| Leicester 017C | 1,940 | 42.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Leicester 017D | 2,857 | 51.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.7% |
| Leicester 017E | 2,263 | 26.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.7% |
| Leicester 017F | 2,206 | 14.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.8% |
| Leicester 019A | 2,060 | 69.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.7% |
| Leicester 019B | 1,949 | 88.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Leicester 019C | 1,846 | 101.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Leicester 019D | 2,345 | 74.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.9% |
| Leicester 019E | 1,619 | 76.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Leicester 019F | 1,357 | 167.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 87.7% |
| Leicester 021A | 1,943 | 44.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.1% |
| Leicester 021B | 1,819 | 33.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Leicester 021C | 2,002 | 71.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.4% |
| Leicester 021D | 1,600 | 32.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Leicester 021E | 1,579 | 60.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Leicester 021F | 1,666 | 25.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Leicester 022B | 1,603 | 42.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.8% |
| Leicester 022F | 1,813 | 55.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.8% |
| Leicester 025A | 1,702 | 59.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Leicester 025B | 1,525 | 68.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Leicester 025C | 1,994 | 57.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.5% |
| Leicester 025D | 1,959 | 47.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.4% |
| Leicester 025E | 1,540 | 70.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.9% |
| Leicester 027B | 1,698 | 29.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Leicester 027C | 1,915 | 22.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Leicester 027E | 1,644 | 27.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Leicester 027G | 2,018 | 29.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Leicester 037B | 1,711 | 56.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Leicester 037C | 1,671 | 90.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Leicester 037D | 1,947 | 145.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.6% |
| Leicester 037E | 1,677 | 79.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Leicester 037F | 1,567 | 85.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Leicester 037G | 1,703 | 34.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Leicester 037H | 1,519 | 77.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Leicester 042A | 2,108 | 45.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Leicester 042B | 2,295 | 55.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 95.8% |
| Leicester 042C | 2,380 | 58.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Leicester 043A | 1,915 | 184.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.3% |
| Leicester 043B | 2,053 | 29.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.9% |
| Leicester 043C | 2,005 | 51.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 97.3% |
| Leicester 043D | 2,498 | 154.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
MPs for LE5
- Shivani RajaConservativeMP for Leicester East74% of LE5’s postcodes
- Shockat AdamIndependentMP for Leicester South22% of LE5’s postcodes
- Mr Peter BedfordConservativeMP for Mid Leicestershire2.7% of LE5’s postcodes
- Edward ArgarConservativeMP for Melton and Syston1.1% of LE5’s postcodes
- Alicia KearnsConservativeMP for Rutland and Stamford0.2% of LE5’s postcodes
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
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LE5 in brief
LE5 is a postcode district covering Leicester, North Evington and Spinney Hills, in Leicester.
About 102,072 people lived in LE5 in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £273,000 in 2025 across 547 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 68.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in LE5 was £273,000 in 2025.
LE5 had 99,206 usual residents at the census.
In LE5, 99.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In LE5, 5.1% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.