# ST13

Postcode district covering Leek, in Staffordshire Moorlands.

ST13 is a postcode district covering Leek, in Staffordshire Moorlands. Median sale price £206,250 in 2025. Recorded crime 72.9 per 1,000 people.

Postcode district. Code ST13. In: [Postcodes](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode) › [ST](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/st)

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 ST13 postcode. [How census figures are added up](https://openindex.co.uk/sources/population)

## Key figures

- **Median sale price: £206,250** (2025). The median price paid for a home in ST13 was £206,250 in 2025. Joint 434th 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/st13#f-house-sales-median-price
- **Population: 28,629** (2021). ST13 had 28,629 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 993rd 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/st13#f-population
- **People in radon Affected Area squares: 98%** (2022). About 98% of people in ST13 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/st13#f-radon-affected-share
- **Gigabit broadband coverage: 83.7%** (January 2026). In ST13, 83.7% 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/st13#f-gigabit-coverage

## On the map

- [Radon Affected Area by postcode district](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas#place=ST13) (Worked out by Open Index · 2022): About 98% of people in ST13 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=ST13) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 430 homes were sold in ST13 in 2025.
- [Crime and ASB by postcode district](https://openindex.co.uk/map/recorded-crime#place=ST13) (Police recorded crime and outcomes (data.police.uk) · August 2026): Crime and anti-social behaviour for ST13.
- [Population by postcode district](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population#place=ST13) (Census 2021, England and Wales): ST13 had 28,629 usual residents at the census.

## How ST13 compares

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

| Measure | ST13 | Rank | Compared with |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Median sale price | £206,250 | 7th cheapest | 21 postcode districts, ST · 2025 |
| Population | 28,629 | 10th most populated | 22 postcode districts, ST · 2021 |
| People in radon Affected Area squares | 98% | 2nd most people in radon Affected Areas | 22 postcode districts, ST · 2022 |
| Gigabit broadband coverage | 83.7% | 11th lowest | 22 postcode districts, ST · Jan 2026 |

## Is ST13 safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in ST13 at a rate of 72.9 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 102.8 per 1,000 people across the ST postcode area.
In August 2026 alone, 215 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in ST13.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (884), anti-social behaviour (382) and other crime (358).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in ST13 was 75.6 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 ST13, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so ST13 has no single figure. Of its 18 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 4 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 ST13

| Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Staffordshire Moorlands 001A](https://openindex.co.uk/staffordshire-moorlands/neighbourhood/e01029797) | 1,592 | 63.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 15.0% |
| [Staffordshire Moorlands 001B](https://openindex.co.uk/staffordshire-moorlands/neighbourhood/e01029806) | 1,468 | 57.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.3% |
| [Staffordshire Moorlands 001C](https://openindex.co.uk/staffordshire-moorlands/neighbourhood/e01029808) | 1,514 | 62.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 88.5% |
| [Staffordshire Moorlands 001D](https://openindex.co.uk/staffordshire-moorlands/neighbourhood/e01029809) | 1,503 | 88.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.4% |
| [Staffordshire Moorlands 001E](https://openindex.co.uk/staffordshire-moorlands/neighbourhood/e01029810) | 1,408 | 112.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| [Staffordshire Moorlands 002D](https://openindex.co.uk/staffordshire-moorlands/neighbourhood/e01029802) | 1,845 | 43.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 42.5% |
| [Staffordshire Moorlands 005A](https://openindex.co.uk/staffordshire-moorlands/neighbourhood/e01029804) | 1,775 | 179.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.0% |
| [Staffordshire Moorlands 005B](https://openindex.co.uk/staffordshire-moorlands/neighbourhood/e01029807) | 1,115 | 130.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 91.5% |
| [Staffordshire Moorlands 005C](https://openindex.co.uk/staffordshire-moorlands/neighbourhood/e01029811) | 1,511 | 110.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.9% |
| [Staffordshire Moorlands 005D](https://openindex.co.uk/staffordshire-moorlands/neighbourhood/e01029812) | 1,994 | 142.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 92.6% |
| [Staffordshire Moorlands 005E](https://openindex.co.uk/staffordshire-moorlands/neighbourhood/e01029814) | 1,597 | 56.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.6% |
| [Staffordshire Moorlands 006A](https://openindex.co.uk/staffordshire-moorlands/neighbourhood/e01029792) | 2,361 | 23.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 68.2% |
| [Staffordshire Moorlands 006B](https://openindex.co.uk/staffordshire-moorlands/neighbourhood/e01029793) | 1,534 | 38.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 79.9% |
| [Staffordshire Moorlands 006C](https://openindex.co.uk/staffordshire-moorlands/neighbourhood/e01029805) | 1,676 | 82.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 88.3% |
| [Staffordshire Moorlands 006D](https://openindex.co.uk/staffordshire-moorlands/neighbourhood/e01029813) | 2,233 | 42.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 79.4% |
| [Staffordshire Moorlands 006E](https://openindex.co.uk/staffordshire-moorlands/neighbourhood/e01029815) | 1,440 | 38.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.0% |
| [Staffordshire Moorlands 006F](https://openindex.co.uk/staffordshire-moorlands/neighbourhood/e01029816) | 1,376 | 21.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
| [Staffordshire Moorlands 009C](https://openindex.co.uk/staffordshire-moorlands/neighbourhood/e01029794) | 1,426 | 51.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 2.3% |

## Your MP

- [Staffordshire Moorlands](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/staffordshire-moorlands): Dame Karen Bradley (Conservative), MP since July 2024.

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

## Middle areas in ST13

[Leek East & Upper Hulme](https://openindex.co.uk/staffordshire-moorlands/leek-east-and-upper-hulme), [Leek South & Cheddleton](https://openindex.co.uk/staffordshire-moorlands/leek-south-and-cheddleton), [Leek Town](https://openindex.co.uk/staffordshire-moorlands/leek-town)

## Postcode sectors in ST13

[ST13 5 (204 postcodes)](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/st13-5), [ST13 6 (172 postcodes)](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/st13-6), [ST13 7 (241 postcodes)](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/st13-7), [ST13 8 (280 postcodes)](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/st13-8), [ST13 9 (40 postcodes)](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/st13-9)

## Council

[Staffordshire Moorlands](https://openindex.co.uk/staffordshire-moorlands)

## Towns in ST13

[Leek](https://openindex.co.uk/town/leek)

## Postcode districts next to ST13

[DE6](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/de6), [SK11](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/sk11), [SK17](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/sk17), [ST6](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/st6), [ST8](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/st8), [ST9](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/st9), [ST10](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/st10)

## More in the ST postcode area

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

## ST13 in brief

ST13 is a postcode district covering Leek, in Staffordshire Moorlands.
About 28,742 people lived in ST13 in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £206,250 in 2025 across 430 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 72.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in ST13 was £206,250 in 2025.
ST13 had 28,629 usual residents at the census.
About 98% of people in ST13 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In ST13, 83.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.

## About

- Type: Postcode district
- Code: ST13
- Postcode area: [ST](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/st)
- Constituency: [Staffordshire Moorlands †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/staffordshire-moorlands)
- Council: [Staffordshire Moorlands †](https://openindex.co.uk/staffordshire-moorlands)
- Area: 167 km²
- People, mid-2024: 28,742*
- Neighbourhoods: 18
- Output areas: 97

* 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

[ST10](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/st10), [ST9](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/st9), [SK17](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/sk17), [SK11](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/sk11), [ST8](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/st8), [DE6](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/de6)

## Latest updates for ST13

- 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/ST13

## How to cite

Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/st13, or to one figure with its anchor, https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/st13#f-house-sales-median-price.

Open Index's own text and the figures it works out are licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Source data keeps its publishers' licences, named with each figure. Give each figure's period and source with it.

Snapshot 2026.10.10. The HTML page: https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/st13