LE9 2AX Blaby

Live postcode, introduced May 1994. Ward: Kirby Muxloe. Region: East Midlands.

Streets

Council tax

What each band costs in Blaby in 2026-27: Band D £2,490 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,660£1,937£2,214£2,490£3,044£3,597£4,150£4,980

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band C (32% of about 600 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this postcode; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this postcode is in one.
  • Listed buildings within 100 m of this postcode: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted within 100 m of this postcode. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this postcode, 5 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 9 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 21 homes the Environment Agency counts, 5 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 9 low and 0 very low.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: the postcode centre is in flood zone 2. Zone 2 is between 0.1% and 1% a year from rivers (0.1% and 0.5% from the sea), ignoring defences.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

Height above sea level

The postcode's 23 addresses are between 77 m and 83 m above sea level (78 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Superfast 100%, ultrafast 100%, gigabit 100% of premises; 0% cannot get 10 Mbit/s. Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026.

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsLeicester 5.5 million journeys in 2024–256.8 km (4.2 miles)
Narborough 294,000 journeys in 2024–257.7 km (4.8 miles)
South Wigston 134,000 journeys in 2024–258.9 km (5.5 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 13 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Kirby Corner Kirby Muxloe100 m
Bus or coach stationSt Margaret's Bus Station Leicester6.1 km (3.8 miles)
EV charging pointsMFG Charging Station3.6 km (2.2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsEast Midlands Airport EMA22.4 km (14 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeriesRatby Medical Centre1.7 km (1 mile)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Village Pharmacy770 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentistsDental Surgery2 km (1.2 miles)
HospitalFrith Hospital (Epma)3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Police stationLeicestershire Police - New Parks Police Station3.1 km (1.9 miles)
Cash machinesCentral England Co-op - Leicester Forest East2.1 km (1.3 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Optimus Point Nature Area 3.0 ha600 m (0.4 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 3,170 m²920 m (0.6 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7.1 ha730 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,190 m²410 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 3.0 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Kirby Muxloe Castle, a listed building (Grade I), 320 m south-west. 9 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
Kirby Muxloe CastleListed building, Grade I320 m south-west
Kirby Muxloe CastleScheduled monument340 m south-west
Church of St BartholomewListed building, Grade II*520 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Moated site and garden enclosure at GlenfieldScheduled monument1.5 km (1 mile) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
Blood's HillHill300 m south-east
New PlantationWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Fishley BeltWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Kirbylane SpinneysWood1.2 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Oakmeadow SpinneyWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) east
Groby QuarriesLake or reservoir3.4 km (2.1 miles) north

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the postcode's centre. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)10.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.5205
Particles (PM10)15.14015

All three are within the UK legal limits; all three are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
75 dB or more10
60 to 6490
55 to 59130
Under 55023

23 of the postcode's 23 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this postcode is in: 282 residents in 132 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this postcodeEngland
Median age4940
Children under 1512%17%
Aged 65 and over25%18%

Homes

Around this postcodeEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)77%61%
Owned outright52%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented21%21%

Work and commuting

Around this postcodeEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work58%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)26%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)29%32%
Travel to work by car or van68%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus0%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)72%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this postcodeEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)30%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)95%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 9 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

The full dossier for this postcode's main street is on Primrose Way.