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 2400-2450 of 6064 active postcodes in Leicester
Postcode Ward Latitude Longitude
LE3 6UP Western 52.63631600 -1.19929900
LE1 1SL Castle 52.63536800 -1.12622400
LE1 1SN Castle 52.63562000 -1.12625600
LE1 1SP Wycliffe 52.63412700 -1.12252500
LE1 1SQ Castle 52.63612400 -1.12629000
LE1 1SR Castle 52.63657200 -1.12496600
LE1 1SS Castle 52.63594300 -1.12613100
LE1 1ST Castle 52.63550800 -1.12565200
LE3 6UQ Western 52.63659200 -1.19899800
LE3 6UR Western 52.63702800 -1.19962600
LE1 1SU Castle 52.63558100 -1.12585700
LE3 6US Western 52.63623900 -1.20122100
LE3 6UT Western 52.63701400 -1.20018800
LE1 1SW Castle 52.63245300 -1.12586100
LE3 6UU Western 52.63444400 -1.19636300
LE3 6UX Western 52.63626400 -1.20234400
LE3 6UY Western 52.63700600 -1.20293600
LE3 6UZ Western 52.63643400 -1.20083400
LE1 1SX Castle 52.63245300 -1.12586100
LE1 1SY Castle 52.63665000 -1.12571800
LE1 1SZ Castle 52.63658800 -1.12579300
LE1 1TA Castle 52.63602500 -1.12513900
LE1 1TB Castle 52.63609500 -1.12473100
LE1 1TE Castle 52.63667600 -1.12433600
LE1 1TG Castle 52.63604700 -1.12447400
LE1 1TH Castle 52.63589900 -1.12512700
LE1 1TL Castle 52.63605600 -1.12437000
LE1 1TQ Castle 52.63528600 -1.12847100
LE1 1TR Castle 52.63481900 -1.12858400
LE1 1UT Castle 52.63536100 -1.12893500
LE1 1WA Castle 52.63594600 -1.13140600
LE1 1WB Castle 52.63643100 -1.12762100
LE1 1WJ Castle 52.63621800 -1.12803200
LE1 1WL Castle 52.63621800 -1.12803200
LE1 1WT Castle 52.63577200 -1.13215600
LE1 2AA Castle 52.63867400 -1.12707400
LE1 2AB Wycliffe 52.64123300 -1.12666100
LE1 2AD Wycliffe 52.64094100 -1.12615000
LE1 2AE Castle 52.63720000 -1.12584700
LE1 2AF Wycliffe 52.64092800 -1.12440600
LE1 2AG Castle 52.63947000 -1.12645200
LE1 2AP Castle 52.63717600 -1.12756900
LE1 2AT Castle 52.63788700 -1.12633600
LE1 2AU Castle 52.63742500 -1.12604200
LE1 2AW Castle 52.63762600 -1.12637800
LE1 2BA Wycliffe 52.63832900 -1.12292800
LE1 2BG Castle 52.63753000 -1.12559000
LE1 2BH Castle 52.63794600 -1.12591400
LE1 2BN Castle 52.63811200 -1.12645000
LE1 2BU Castle 52.63972400 -1.12686100
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