Eyres Monsell
WardSouth Leicester. About 12,581 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 2.3 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 15% of people in Eyres Monsell live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Eyres Monsell compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Eyres Monsell safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Eyres Monsell at a rate of 132.6 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 124.0 per 1,000 people across Leicester.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 153 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Eyres Monsell.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (727), other crime (290) and anti-social behaviour (209).
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.
Figures for the whole of Leicester
These figures are published for the whole of Leicester, not for each ward, so they describe all of Leicester and not Eyres Monsell alone. See Leicester
Eyres Monsell in brief
Eyres Monsell had 12,009 usual residents at the census.
About 15% of people in Eyres Monsell live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Eyres Monsell, 99.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Eyres Monsell, 6.5% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.