# LS6

Postcode district covering Leeds, Headingley and Meanwood, in Leeds.

LS6 is a postcode district covering Leeds, Headingley and Meanwood, in Leeds. Median sale price £278,000 in 2025. Recorded crime 80.9 per 1,000 people.

Postcode district. Code LS6. In: [Postcodes](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode) › [LS](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ls)

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 LS6 postcode. [How census figures are added up](https://openindex.co.uk/sources/population)

## Key figures

- **Median sale price: £278,000** (2025). The median price paid for a home in LS6 was £278,000 in 2025. Joint 981st cheapest of 2,235. Source: Worked out by Open Index from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. Published 28 September 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ls6#f-house-sales-median-price
- **Population: 49,999** (2021). LS6 had 49,999 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 210th most populated of 2,756. Source: Census 2021, England and Wales and Scotland's Census 2022 and Census 2021, Northern Ireland, 2021. Published 21 July 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ls6#f-population
- **People in radon Affected Area squares: 100%** (2022). About 100% of people in LS6 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area. UK 44%. Source: Worked out by Open Index from the UKHSA and BGS radon atlas and census output areas. Published 1 December 2022. https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ls6#f-radon-affected-share
- **Gigabit broadband coverage: 97.9%** (January 2026). In LS6, 97.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026 (Ofcom). UK 87.8%. Source: Connected Nations (Ofcom), January 2026. Published 13 May 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ls6#f-gigabit-coverage

## On the map

- [Radon Affected Area by postcode district](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas?place=LS6) (Worked out by Open Index · 2022): About 100% of people in LS6 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
- [Sales per year by postcode district](https://openindex.co.uk/map/house-sales-per-year?place=LS6) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 356 homes were sold in LS6 in 2025.
- [Crime and ASB by postcode district](https://openindex.co.uk/map/recorded-crime?place=LS6) (Police recorded crime and outcomes (data.police.uk) · August 2026): Crime and anti-social behaviour for LS6.
- [Population by postcode district](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population?place=LS6) (Census 2021, England and Wales): LS6 had 49,999 usual residents at the census.

## How LS6 compares

Each postcode district against every other postcode district the measure covers.

| Measure | LS6 | Rank | Compared with |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Median sale price | £278,000 | 11th most expensive | 29 postcode districts, LS · 2025 |
| Population | 49,999 | 2nd most populated | 30 postcode districts, LS · 2021 |
| People in radon Affected Area squares | 100% | joint most people in radon Affected Areas | 30 postcode districts, LS · 2022 |
| Gigabit broadband coverage | 97.9% | 10th highest | 30 postcode districts, LS · Jan 2026 |

## Is LS6 safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in LS6 at a rate of 80.9 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 121.1 per 1,000 people across the LS postcode area.
In August 2026 alone, 313 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in LS6.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,468), other crime (854) and vehicle crime (459).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in LS6 was 81.6 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 LS6, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so LS6 has no single figure. Of its 28 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.

## Neighbourhoods in LS6

| Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Leeds 031A](https://openindex.co.uk/leeds/neighbourhood/e01011513) | 2,238 | 42.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 90.5% |
| [Leeds 031C](https://openindex.co.uk/leeds/neighbourhood/e01011689) | 1,611 | 48.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.1% |
| [Leeds 031D](https://openindex.co.uk/leeds/neighbourhood/e01011691) | 1,500 | 149.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.7% |
| [Leeds 033B](https://openindex.co.uk/leeds/neighbourhood/e01011485) | 1,628 | 81.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.5% |
| [Leeds 038D](https://openindex.co.uk/leeds/neighbourhood/e01011450) | 1,301 | 92.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| [Leeds 044A](https://openindex.co.uk/leeds/neighbourhood/e01011435) | 1,825 | 96.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| [Leeds 044D](https://openindex.co.uk/leeds/neighbourhood/e01011440) | 1,685 | 191.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| [Leeds 044E](https://openindex.co.uk/leeds/neighbourhood/e01011441) | 1,959 | 101.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| [Leeds 044G](https://openindex.co.uk/leeds/neighbourhood/e01035040) | 1,738 | 87.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| [Leeds 044H](https://openindex.co.uk/leeds/neighbourhood/e01035041) | 1,302 | 58.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| [Leeds 045D](https://openindex.co.uk/leeds/neighbourhood/e01011489) | 1,765 | 87.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| [Leeds 054A](https://openindex.co.uk/leeds/neighbourhood/e01011445) | 1,790 | 61.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.8% |
| [Leeds 054B](https://openindex.co.uk/leeds/neighbourhood/e01011446) | 1,755 | 53.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| [Leeds 054C](https://openindex.co.uk/leeds/neighbourhood/e01011447) | 1,428 | 78.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| [Leeds 054D](https://openindex.co.uk/leeds/neighbourhood/e01011448) | 1,679 | 107.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.8% |
| [Leeds 054E](https://openindex.co.uk/leeds/neighbourhood/e01011449) | 1,480 | 112.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.8% |
| [Leeds 055A](https://openindex.co.uk/leeds/neighbourhood/e01011670) | 2,614 | 83.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 92.7% |
| [Leeds 055I](https://openindex.co.uk/leeds/neighbourhood/e01035042) | 2,288 | 113.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.5% |
| [Leeds 109D](https://openindex.co.uk/leeds/neighbourhood/e01011692) | 1,502 | 48.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| [Leeds 109E](https://openindex.co.uk/leeds/neighbourhood/e01011693) | 1,513 | 82.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| [Leeds 109F](https://openindex.co.uk/leeds/neighbourhood/e01011694) | 1,855 | 54.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.2% |
| [Leeds 110A](https://openindex.co.uk/leeds/neighbourhood/e01011442) | 1,874 | 45.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.6% |
| [Leeds 110B](https://openindex.co.uk/leeds/neighbourhood/e01011443) | 1,881 | 67.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| [Leeds 110C](https://openindex.co.uk/leeds/neighbourhood/e01011444) | 1,992 | 97.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| [Leeds 110D](https://openindex.co.uk/leeds/neighbourhood/e01011451) | 1,553 | 95.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 92.9% |
| [Leeds 110E](https://openindex.co.uk/leeds/neighbourhood/e01011668) | 1,705 | 78.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.7% |
| [Leeds 110F](https://openindex.co.uk/leeds/neighbourhood/e01011669) | 1,481 | 132.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 87.1% |
| [Leeds 110G](https://openindex.co.uk/leeds/neighbourhood/e01032946) | 3,146 | 30.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 89.6% |

## Your MP

- [Leeds Central and Headingley](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/leeds-central-and-headingley): Alex Sobel (Labour (Co-op)), MP since July 2024. 83% of the people here.
- [Leeds North East](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/leeds-north-east): Fabian Hamilton (Labour), MP since July 2024. 17% of the people here.

As of 18 October 2026. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.

## Middle areas in LS6

[Headingley](https://openindex.co.uk/leeds/headingley), [Hyde Park](https://openindex.co.uk/leeds/hyde-park), [Hyde Park Corner & Woodhouse Cliff](https://openindex.co.uk/leeds/hyde-park-corner-and-woodhouse-cliff), [Meanwood](https://openindex.co.uk/leeds/meanwood)

## Postcode sectors in LS6

[LS6 1 (232 postcodes)](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ls6-1), [LS6 2 (211 postcodes)](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ls6-2), [LS6 3 (204 postcodes)](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ls6-3), [LS6 4 (234 postcodes)](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ls6-4), [LS6 9 (4 postcodes)](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ls6-9)

## Council

[Leeds](https://openindex.co.uk/leeds)

## Towns in LS6

[Leeds](https://openindex.co.uk/town/leeds)

## Postcode districts next to LS6

[LS2](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ls2), [LS3](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ls3), [LS4](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ls4), [LS5](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ls5), [LS7](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ls7), [LS16](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ls16), [LS17](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ls17)

## Nearest rail stations

[Burley Park (950 m from the middle)](https://openindex.co.uk/map/rail-stations?around=-1.5778,53.8120), [Headingley (1.3 km from the middle)](https://openindex.co.uk/map/rail-stations?around=-1.5942,53.8180), [Kirkstall Forge (3.2 km from the middle)](https://openindex.co.uk/map/rail-stations?around=-1.6225,53.8237), [Leeds (3.2 km from the middle)](https://openindex.co.uk/map/rail-stations?around=-1.5480,53.7956)

## More in the LS postcode area

[All LS postcode districts](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ls), [Every UK postcode area](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode)

## LS6 in brief

LS6 is a postcode district covering Leeds, Headingley and Meanwood, in Leeds.
About 51,228 people lived in LS6 in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £278,000 in 2025 across 356 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 80.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in LS6 was £278,000 in 2025.
LS6 had 49,999 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in LS6 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In LS6, 97.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.

## About

- Type: Postcode district
- Code: LS6
- Postcode area: [LS](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ls)
- Constituency: [Leeds Central and Headingley †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/leeds-central-and-headingley)
- Council: [Leeds †](https://openindex.co.uk/leeds)
- Area: 7.14 km²
- People, mid-2024: 51,228*
- Neighbourhoods: 28
- Output areas: 151

* People: worked out by Open Index from neighbourhood estimates, shared out by where people lived at the census (by area in Northern Ireland). This area's edges do not follow neighbourhood edges, so the figure is close but not exact.
† Best fit: the constituency, council, region and nation this postcode district mostly lies in. Its edges do not follow theirs.

## Next door

[LS16](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ls16), [LS7](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ls7), [LS5](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ls5), [LS17](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ls17), [LS4](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ls4), [LS2](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ls2)

## Latest updates for LS6

- August 2026 house prices published: HM Land Registry and partners · Oct 2026.
- September 2026 rent published: ONS private rents · Oct 2026.
- Dental practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026.
- Schools updated: Ofsted · Oct 2026.

The same figures as JSON: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/places/LS6

## How to cite

Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ls6, or to one figure with its anchor, https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ls6#f-house-sales-median-price.

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Snapshot 2026.10.9. The HTML page: https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ls6