Postcodes in Leicester District

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This article covers information about postcodes in Leicester's local authority district. Leicester is an administrative area in Leicestershire County. Leicester district is further divided into 21 Wards.

Below is a complete list of Leicester Postcodes, it has 6064 active postcodes. Leicester contains approximately 123121 residential properties with a population of about 329790.

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Leicester Postcode and Census - Statistical Overview


Population 329790
Addresses / Property Count 123121
Active Postcodes 6064
County Leicestershire
No Of Wards in Leicester 21

What is a District

The United Kingdom is primarily divided into large area blocks called Counties. A district is an administrative block in the UK and part of a County council area. The district is also the second-largest administrative block in the UK after counties. These are also known as local authority districts and are different from city districts. Leicester is a local authority district in Leicestershire county. Districts are majorly categorized into 4 types namely:

  • Non-Metropolitan districts
  • Unitary authority areas
  • Metropolitan boroughs
  • London boroughs

Sub Divisions Of a district

Districts are subdivided into different local administrative blocks. Other categories of local administrative blocks that comes under district authority are as follows:

  • Parish
  • Wards
  • Cities

Wards in Leicester

There are 21 wards in the district. Below is a list of the wards. You can click on any ward link to view the postcodes of that ward.

Abbey Aylestone Beaumont Leys Belgrave Braunstone Park & Rowley Fields Castle Evington Eyres Monsell Fosse Humberstone & Hamilton Knighton North Evington Rushey Mead Saffron Spinney Hills Stoneygate Thurncourt Troon Westcotes Western Wycliffe

View Map Of Leicester Wards


This map shows all wards in the district of Leicester, zoom to view all the pointers. If you click on any pointer you can see the ward name. Below the ward name, you can see a link called view postcodes. Click on the link to see the postcodes for that ward.

List of Leicester postcodes


showing 6050-6064 of 6064 active postcodes in Leicester
Postcode Ward Latitude Longitude
LE5 6XL Evington 52.62418200 -1.06009400
LE5 6XN Evington 52.62309900 -1.05960000
LE5 6XP Evington 52.62356000 -1.06097900
LE5 6XQ Evington 52.62333900 -1.06151500
LE5 6XR Evington 52.62317400 -1.06565500
LE5 6XS Evington 52.62366300 -1.06613200
LE5 6XT Evington 52.62311200 -1.06688300
LE7 7GL Beaumont Leys 52.66216300 -1.17453400
LE7 7GU Beaumont Leys 52.65912100 -1.17144200
LE7 7GX Beaumont Leys 52.66312000 -1.17625500
LE7 7QT Beaumont Leys 52.66344600 -1.17674300
LE7 9SD Humberstone & Hamilton 52.64994700 -1.04869900
LE7 9SL Humberstone & Hamilton 52.65043400 -1.04896900
LE7 9SZ Humberstone & Hamilton 52.65112700 -1.04901300
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