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 350-400 of 6064 active postcodes in Leicester
Postcode Ward Latitude Longitude
LE2 1XQ Castle 52.61623500 -1.12467700
LE2 1XR Castle 52.61834600 -1.12080900
LE2 1YA Castle 52.61552800 -1.12387900
LE2 1YB Castle 52.61480100 -1.12401200
LE2 1YD Castle 52.61500100 -1.12310700
LE2 1YE Castle 52.61579100 -1.12419100
LE2 1YF Castle 52.61693800 -1.12365900
LE2 1YG Castle 52.61583200 -1.12237300
LE2 1YH Castle 52.61571000 -1.12287800
LE2 1YN Castle 52.61517600 -1.12375300
LE2 1ZA Castle 52.62004300 -1.11568600
LE2 1ZB Castle 52.62013300 -1.11334300
LE2 1ZD Castle 52.62149700 -1.11415000
LE2 1ZE Castle 52.62135500 -1.11322200
LE2 1ZF Castle 52.62213600 -1.11418100
LE2 1ZH Castle 52.62183000 -1.11419600
LE2 2AA Stoneygate 52.61842300 -1.10711500
LE2 2AB Stoneygate 52.61796000 -1.10767100
LE2 2AD Stoneygate 52.61790100 -1.10455600
LE2 2AE Knighton 52.61772100 -1.10567400
LE2 2AF Stoneygate 52.61753500 -1.10372100
LE2 2AG Stoneygate 52.61924600 -1.11017100
LE2 2AH Stoneygate 52.61893300 -1.10912000
LE2 2AJ Stoneygate 52.61876600 -1.10845200
LE2 2AL Knighton 52.61758400 -1.10550700
LE2 2AN Knighton 52.61756500 -1.10644500
LE2 2AP Stoneygate 52.61834000 -1.10912600
LE2 2AQ Stoneygate 52.61954100 -1.10629500
LE2 2AR Stoneygate 52.61920600 -1.10724700
LE2 2AS Stoneygate 52.61781500 -1.10875200
LE2 2BA Stoneygate 52.61733900 -1.10167200
LE2 2BB Knighton 52.61639300 -1.10491800
LE2 2BD Knighton 52.61660700 -1.10118500
LE2 2BE Knighton 52.61694900 -1.10114000
LE2 2BF Stoneygate 52.61875200 -1.10304600
LE2 2BG Stoneygate 52.61848500 -1.10334700
LE2 2BH Knighton 52.61730700 -1.10566100
LE2 2BJ Knighton 52.61691100 -1.10558700
LE2 2BL Stoneygate 52.61963400 -1.10908500
LE2 2BN Knighton 52.61635500 -1.10223900
LE2 2BP Knighton 52.61638100 -1.10328700
LE2 2BQ Knighton 52.61736200 -1.10584400
LE2 2BT Stoneygate 52.61943500 -1.10541100
LE2 2DA Knighton 52.61687800 -1.10006300
LE2 2DE Knighton 52.61502300 -1.10087800
LE2 2DF Knighton 52.61415200 -1.10211300
LE2 2DG Knighton 52.61301100 -1.10228400
LE2 2DH Knighton 52.61348400 -1.10179500
LE2 2DJ Knighton 52.61478900 -1.09850400
LE2 2DL Knighton 52.61451500 -1.09906300
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