Postcodes in Leicester District

Facts Checked By Data Team - Written By Mallika Basu - Reviewed By Jonathan Benton

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 2300-2350 of 6064 active postcodes in Leicester
Postcode Ward Latitude Longitude
LE3 6PH Western 52.63926700 -1.19960000
LE1 1NB Castle 52.63467500 -1.12609700
LE1 1PA Castle 52.63291400 -1.12745500
LE3 6PJ Western 52.63891600 -1.19824700
LE3 6PL Western 52.63904700 -1.19766800
LE3 6PN Western 52.63800300 -1.19615000
LE1 1PG Castle 52.63259000 -1.12494200
LE1 1PL Wycliffe 52.63371900 -1.12315300
LE3 6PP Western 52.63769400 -1.19701300
LE3 6PQ Western 52.63736500 -1.19750700
LE3 6PU Western 52.63438800 -1.19346800
LE3 6PW Western 52.63392800 -1.19455500
LE3 6PX Western 52.63447200 -1.19519500
LE3 6PY Western 52.63373900 -1.19318400
LE3 6PZ Western 52.63373200 -1.19206200
LE3 6QA Western 52.64399100 -1.18700400
LE3 6QB Western 52.64270000 -1.18492100
LE3 6QD Western 52.64440200 -1.18667700
LE3 6QE Western 52.64309200 -1.18450000
LE3 6QF Western 52.64579300 -1.18107900
LE3 6QG Western 52.64328200 -1.18337300
LE3 6QH Western 52.64045000 -1.18593800
LE3 6QJ Western 52.64153400 -1.16986800
LE3 6QL Western 52.64059200 -1.17007800
LE3 6QN Western 52.64085500 -1.16915000
LE3 6QP Western 52.64141900 -1.16880600
LE3 6QQ Western 52.64223000 -1.17035700
LE3 6QR Western 52.64205600 -1.17118800
LE3 6QS Western 52.64713600 -1.18683400
LE3 6QT Western 52.64476100 -1.18664100
LE3 6QU Western 52.64504200 -1.18558700
LE3 6QW Western 52.64708600 -1.18475000
LE3 6QX Western 52.64589300 -1.18523100
LE3 6QY Western 52.64654800 -1.18502700
LE3 6QZ Western 52.63909300 -1.18857300
LE3 6RA Fosse 52.63660000 -1.15985400
LE1 1QA Castle 52.63405400 -1.12723300
LE1 1QB Castle 52.63375900 -1.12749000
LE1 1QD Castle 52.63467500 -1.12609700
LE3 6RB Western 52.63671900 -1.16140300
LE3 6RD Western 52.63777800 -1.16244700
LE3 6RE Western 52.64385200 -1.17350400
LE1 1QG Castle 52.63420500 -1.12455500
LE3 6RF Western 52.63694700 -1.16185700
LE1 1QH Castle 52.63382400 -1.12646900
LE3 6RG Western 52.64130000 -1.17101000
LE3 6RH Western 52.64238800 -1.17110800
LE3 6RJ Western 52.64450600 -1.18078700
LE3 6RL Western 52.64184900 -1.17240400
LE3 6RN Western 52.64329700 -1.18154000
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