LE4
Postcode districtPostcode district covering Leicester, Belgrave and Mowmacre Hill, in Leicester and Charnwood.
Approximate outline worked out by Open Index from the ONS Postcode Directory: each census output area belongs to the district that holds most of its postcodes. People, homes, recorded crime and broadband add up those output areas. House sales count every sale with an LE4 postcode. How census figures are added up
Gigabit coverage by postcode district
Connected Nations (Ofcom) · January 2026
In LE4, 99.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How LE4 compares
Each dot is a postcode district. The black line marks the middle one.
Is LE4 safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in LE4 at a rate of 84.7 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 86.0 per 1,000 people across LE.
In August 2026 alone, 817 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in LE4.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (3,507), other crime (1,700) and anti-social behaviour (1,493).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in LE4 was 90.8 per 1,000 people.
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.
Deprivation in LE4, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so LE4 has no single figure. Of its 62 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 14 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 9 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in LE4
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charnwood 019B | 1,626 | 17.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Charnwood 019C | 1,726 | 85.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.7% |
| Charnwood 019D | 1,433 | 89.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Charnwood 019E | 2,504 | 89.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 91.2% |
| Charnwood 019F | 1,770 | 27.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Charnwood 020A | 1,751 | 18.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.7% |
| Charnwood 020B | 1,646 | 53.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.9% |
| Charnwood 020C | 1,863 | 37.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.9% |
| Charnwood 021A | 1,581 | 75.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.7% |
| Charnwood 021B | 1,703 | 87.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.1% |
| Charnwood 021C | 1,402 | 36.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Charnwood 021D | 1,509 | 33.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Charnwood 021E | 2,065 | 169.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.7% |
| Charnwood 021F | 1,556 | 48.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.2% |
| Leicester 001A | 1,744 | 71.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.5% |
| Leicester 001B | 1,647 | 117.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.6% |
| Leicester 001C | 1,654 | 37.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.4% |
| Leicester 001D | 1,847 | 159.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.6% |
| Leicester 002A | 2,034 | 111.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.0% |
| Leicester 002B | 1,437 | 160.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.5% |
| Leicester 002C | 1,207 | 51.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.8% |
| Leicester 002D | 2,161 | 93.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.6% |
| Leicester 002E | 1,390 | 40.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.6% |
| Leicester 003A | 2,171 | 148.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Leicester 003B | 1,891 | 93.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Leicester 003C | 1,950 | 123.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.8% |
| Leicester 003D | 1,750 | 149.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.9% |
| Leicester 003E | 1,925 | 80.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Leicester 003F | 2,091 | 76.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Leicester 004A | 2,703 | 251.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 84.4% |
| Leicester 004B | 1,872 | 117.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Leicester 004C | 2,460 | 116.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.1% |
| Leicester 004D | 1,754 | 168.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Leicester 004E | 2,232 | 102.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.3% |
| Leicester 005A | 2,534 | 67.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.6% |
| Leicester 005B | 1,504 | 107.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.7% |
| Leicester 005C | 1,473 | 63.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.6% |
| Leicester 005D | 1,727 | 39.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.7% |
| Leicester 006A | 2,190 | 109.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.3% |
| Leicester 006B | 1,762 | 142.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.5% |
| Leicester 006C | 1,456 | 27.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Leicester 006E | 1,397 | 90.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.4% |
| Leicester 006F | 1,874 | 59.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.3% |
| Leicester 006G | 1,638 | 89.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Leicester 007A | 1,757 | 59.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 95.5% |
| Leicester 007B | 2,045 | 50.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Leicester 007C | 1,348 | 31.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Leicester 007D | 1,813 | 51.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.7% |
| Leicester 007E | 2,036 | 43.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.7% |
| Leicester 008A | 1,935 | 61.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.7% |
| Leicester 008C | 2,114 | 146.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.2% |
| Leicester 008D | 1,511 | 61.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.9% |
| Leicester 008E | 1,848 | 42.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Leicester 008F | 1,767 | 108.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.2% |
| Leicester 010A | 1,852 | 56.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.4% |
| Leicester 010B | 1,872 | 47.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.8% |
| Leicester 010C | 1,671 | 61.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.8% |
| Leicester 010D | 1,900 | 30.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.3% |
| Leicester 010E | 2,006 | 47.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.2% |
| Leicester 010F | 1,927 | 134.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.1% |
| Leicester 011A | 2,159 | 99.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Leicester 011B | 2,142 | 45.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.8% |
MPs for LE4
- Liz KendallLabourMP for Leicester West36% of LE4’s postcodes
- Shivani RajaConservativeMP for Leicester East35% of LE4’s postcodes
- Mr Peter BedfordConservativeMP for Mid Leicestershire19% of LE4’s postcodes
- Edward ArgarConservativeMP for Melton and Syston10% of LE4’s postcodes
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Middle areas in LE413
Postcode sectors in LE410
Councils LE4 covers2
Towns in LE43
Postcode districts next to LE44
Nearest rail stations2
More in the LE postcode area2
LE4 in brief
LE4 is a postcode district covering Leicester, Belgrave and Mowmacre Hill, in Leicester and Charnwood.
About 113,074 people lived in LE4 in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £262,000 in 2025 across 887 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 84.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in LE4 was £262,000 in 2025.
LE4 had 109,251 usual residents at the census.
In LE4, 99.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In LE4, 4.4% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.