Thirlmere Street Leicester

35 addresses across 2 postcodes (LE2), about 150 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 23103016.

  • Sales: 23 recorded sales since 1995; in 2021 the median was £172,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Leicester cost £226,881 in August 2026 (-1.5% on a year); private rents averaged £1,020 a month.
  • Energy: 27 homes have an energy certificate (B: 6, C: 4, D: 14, E: 3).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Storm overflows: 3 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 9 times (5 hours) in 2025.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A594, carries 23,706 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Leicester costs £2,529 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Leicester, about 1.2 km (0.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Thirlmere Street Gardens, is about 50 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 17.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 57 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 6 of its 35 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Walnut St Med Ctr, about 140 m away, with 18 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 620 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 11% of households owned their home and 35% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 377 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 7 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025; 2 involved a pedestrian.

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House sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20211£172,000£172,000£172,000
20191£150,000£150,000£150,000
20171£150,000£150,000£150,000
20061£134,000£134,000£134,000
20051£132,000£132,000£132,000
20032£116,000£115,000£117,000
20023£111,000£69,000£112,000
20002£39,750£37,000£42,500
19982£37,250£32,000£42,500
19972£43,500£40,000£47,000
19961£44,500£44,500£44,500
19952£41,000£40,000£42,000
All 23 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
25 Jan 20001 LE2 7GQTerraced£37,000
7 May 19983 LE2 7GQTerraced£42,500
31 Oct 20005 LE2 7GQTerraced£42,500
17 Jul 20037 LE2 7GQTerraced£117,000
7 Jul 20069 LE2 7GQSemi-detached£134,000
7 Jun 19969 LE2 7GQSemi-detached£44,500
25 Aug 202111 LE2 7GQTerraced£172,000
11 Apr 200513 LE2 7GQTerraced£132,000
1 Aug 201715 LE2 7GQTerraced£150,000
26 Jul 200219 LE2 7GQTerraced£69,000
20 Dec 201921 LE2 7GQTerraced£150,000
1 Sep 199723 LE2 7GQTerraced£40,000
17 Feb 201725 LE2 7GQTerraced£138,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 Aug 200325 LE2 7GQTerraced£115,000
23 Aug 200231 LE2 7GQTerraced£112,000
22 Jul 201533 LE2 7GQTerraced£155,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
9 May 199733 LE2 7GQTerraced£47,000
20 Jul 199839 LE2 7GQTerraced£32,000
22 Oct 202541 LE2 7GQTerraced£185,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
5 Sep 199541 LE2 7GQTerraced£42,000
20 Mar 201945 LE2 7GQTerraced£155,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
2 Aug 200245 LE2 7GQTerraced£111,000
13 Oct 199545 LE2 7GQTerraced£40,000

House prices and rents in Leicester

A typical home in Leicester cost £226,881 in August 2026, 1.5% less than a year before. That is 14% more than five years earlier and 54% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£380,683
Semi-detached£260,514
Terraced£205,717
Flat or maisonette£140,344
Bought by a first-time buyer£210,898

Private renters in Leicester paid £1,020 a month on average in September 2026, 0.9% more than a year before. That is 42% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£713
Two bedrooms£890
Three bedrooms£1,043
Four or more bedrooms£1,450

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from September 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

27 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 100 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (19); Flat (6); House, end-terrace (2). Built: 1900-1929 (14); before 1900 (7); 2026 (6). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (10); rented (social) (6); rented (private) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (27 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 13,154 kWh of it on average in 2024, about the same as the district, and 4,294 kWh of electricity, 29% more than the district's 3,329 kWh. There are gas meters for about 96% of the homes.

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is LE2.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in Leicester in 2026-27: Band D £2,529 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,686£1,967£2,248£2,529£3,091£3,653£4,215£5,058

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (75% of about 3,820 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) around it, not just this street; 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 street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): Houses in Multiple Occupation - 2013.
  • 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 on or by this street. 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.

Energy projects nearby

No wind turbine or waste plant within 5 km (3.1 miles), and no solar farm, battery site or other project of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles), of the street's postcodes, operating or planned.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 16 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

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: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
LE2 7GQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 16 unlikely
LE2 7LAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 0 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

3 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 9 times, for 5 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into River Soar.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Raw Dykes Road Cso Severn Trent Water River Soar 3 3 390 m
Narborough Rd / Westcote Rd Cso Severn Trent Water River Soar 6 2 510 m (0.3 miles)
The Newarke Cso Severn Trent Water River Soar 0 0 620 m (0.4 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

Every 1 km square the street's postcodes are in is in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's addresses are about 57 m above sea level.

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

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
LE2 7GQ100%100%100%0%
LE2 7LA100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 8 November 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 middle of the street, 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 2024–251.2 km (0.8 miles)
South Wigston 134,000 journeys in 2024–254.8 km (3 miles)
Narborough 294,000 journeys in 2024–257.4 km (4.6 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 38 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Windermere Street Leicester60 m
Bus or coach stationCharles Street Leicester1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Havelock Car Park220 m
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest HMP Leicester590 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsEast Midlands Airport EMA26.2 km (16 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 8 November 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries18 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Walnut St Med Ctr Good Feb 2019140 m
Pharmacies14 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Riverside Pharmacy380 m
NHS dentists18 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Dental Wellness Centre430 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalLeicester Royal Infirmary Requires improvement Jun 2024330 m
Care homes11 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Clarendon Mews Care Home Good Aug 2021130 m
Police stationHinckley Road Police Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Cash machines6 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Securistore Leicester Ltd.430 m (0.3 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, October 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street 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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Thirlmere Street Gardens 5,410 m²50 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Bede Park 4.2 ha250 m
Play area8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 550 m²40 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.0 ha370 m
AllotmentsRowley Fields Allotments 8.9 ha1.5 km (0.9 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 9.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Andrew and Attached Former Schoolroom, a listed building (Grade II*), 350 m north-east. 121 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 4 of them Grade I and 9 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St Andrew and Attached Former SchoolroomListed building, Grade II*350 m north-east
Greek Orthodox Church of St Nicholas and St XenophonListed building, Grade II*450 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Chantry HouseListed building, Grade II*680 m (0.4 miles) north
Skeffington House, Newarke Houses MuseumListed building, Grade II*700 m (0.4 miles) north
Leicester Castle and the Magazine GatewayScheduled monument760 m (0.5 miles) north
The Raw Dykes Roman aqueductScheduled monument820 m (0.5 miles) south
Welford Road CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II910 m (0.6 miles) south-east
Greyfriars, LeicesterScheduled monument950 m (0.6 miles) north
New Walk, LeicesterRegistered park or garden, Grade II1 km (0.6 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Freemens CommonWood930 m (0.6 miles) south-east
Old Mill RaceLake or reservoir1.7 km (1.1 miles) north
Old Mill StreamLake or reservoir1.8 km (1.1 miles) north
Coalpit Lane SpinneyWood2.4 km (1.5 miles) south-west
Shoulder of Mutton HillHill2.5 km (1.6 miles) west
The PoolLake or reservoir2.6 km (1.6 miles) west

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 middle of the street. 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)17.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.1205
Particles (PM10)13.24015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 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
55 to 5960
Under 552935

6 of the street's 35 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Leicester: see them on the Leicester page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 13 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Hazel Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–11300 m Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 65% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2% at the higher standard (2025; 67% in 2024 and 73% in 2023)
Leicester College16 plus16–99560 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection None published
Shaftesbury Junior SchoolPrimary7–11820 m (0.5 miles) Good (Feb 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 58% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 48% in 2024 and 27% in 2023)
King Richard III Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–7930 m (0.6 miles) Requires improvement (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) None published
Beauchamp City Sixth Form16 plus16–191 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection A level 2025: average grade B; 27.6% AAB or better; progress above average
St Mary's Fields AcademyPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Requires improvement (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 62% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025)
Castle Mead AcademySecondary11–161.3 km (0.8 miles) Outstanding (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 46.3 (48.0 in 2025 and 47.0 in 2024); 46.4% grade 5+ in English and maths
WQE and Regent College Group16 plus16–991.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection A level 2025: average grade C; 5.4% AAB or better; progress below average
Fullhurst Community CollegeSecondary11–161.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 39.0 (39.2 in 2025 and 42.2 in 2024); 34.7% grade 5+ in English and maths
Imperial Avenue Infant SchoolPrimary3–71.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection None published
Sparkenhoe Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (1 mile) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 68% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 75% in 2024 and 67% in 2023)
Knighton Mead Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection 63% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 50% in 2024 and 73% in 2023)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 1.1 km (0.7 miles); the nearest is 110 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
St Andrews Play Association LE2 7LA Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 110 m
Children 1st @ Leicester LE2 7ET Full day care 123 Outstanding (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 410 m (0.3 miles)
Leicester College Day Nursery LE2 7LW Full day care 28 Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 600 m (0.4 miles)
Kids Corner Nursery Ltd LE3 0BG Full day care 49 Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 630 m (0.4 miles)
Ashbourne Day Nurseries at Leicester Central LE1 5JN Full day care 84 Good (Jul 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 840 m (0.5 miles)
The Dolls House LE1 6TF Full day care 51 Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 910 m (0.6 miles)
Westleigh Nursery Ltd. LE3 0HH Full day care 44 Outstanding (Jul 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
Allexton Day Nursery LE3 5PB Full day care 86 Good (Feb 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
Gingerbread Mews LE3 0FU Sessional day care 42 Good (Aug 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
Beanstalk Day Nursery LE1 6AF Full day care 40 Good (Aug 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Ofsted also registers 61 childminders and 49 home childcarers (nannies) in Leicester. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 13 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
St. Andrews Play Association / SAPA Community Pantry LE2 7LADistributors/Transporters50 m5 Very good3 Oct 2022
Gorkha8848 Restaurant LE2 7GRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m5 Very good15 Oct 2025
Supreme Fish Bar LE2 7GXTakeaway/sandwich shop110 m3 Generally satisfactory16 Jul 2025
Lucky Supermarket LE2 7FWRetailers - other120 m5 Very good29 Aug 2024
Clarendon Mews Residential Care Home LE2 7FSHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises130 m5 Very good4 Jul 2025
Wok Express LE2 7FSTakeaway/sandwich shop130 m4 Good15 Oct 2025
Yo Sandwich LE2 7LERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m5 Very good28 Feb 2025
PK (Prabhu Krupa) Ltd LE2 7GWRetailers - other140 m5 Very good24 Aug 2023
Step In Off Licence LE2 7DURetailers - other150 m5 Very good12 Nov 2024
JSM Store LE2 7JHRetailers - other150 m5 Very good19 Nov 2025
Holiday Inn Express Leicester / Fox And Soar Pub LE2 7FQHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house180 m5 Very good10 Mar 2025
F2L Grasmere House LE2 7DBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises220 m5 Very good18 Oct 2024
Sublime Care Solution Limited LE2 7HLSchool/college/university230 mAwaiting inspection
Sublime Care Solution LE2 7HLSchool/college/university230 m5 Very good21 Aug 2026
Symphony Rooms - Bars Only LE2 7JLOther catering premises260 m5 Very good18 Mar 2025

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

377 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences155
Other theft44
Public order40
Anti-social behaviour33
Drugs25
Criminal damage and arson22
Bicycle theft16
Vehicle crime15
Burglary12
Possession of weapons5
Other crime4
Theft from the person2
Robbery2
Shoplifting2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Rydal Street (56); On or near Windermere Street (45); On or near Ullswater Street (42); On or near Jarrom Street (33); On or near Lineker Road (32).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

7 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 7 slight. 2 involved a pedestrian; 3 involved a cyclist; 1 involved a motorcyclist. 29% happened in the dark, and 14% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202110
202200
202320
202410
202530
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
14 Jul 2025 08:45 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
21 Jun 2025 18:20 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
6 Mar 2025 17:20 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
6 Jul 2024 22:15 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
14 Nov 2023 15:05 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
28 May 2023 01:25 Slight 2 people Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
29 Nov 2021 15:40 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Wet road

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A594 between A594 Waterloo Way and A594 Aylestone Rd, with 23,706 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 450 m (0.3 miles) from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A594 A426 to A594 Welford Rd 20,855 estimated; counted 2024 1% -12% since 2015 330 m
A594 A594 Waterloo Way to A594 Aylestone Rd 23,706 counted 2025 1% -10% since 2015 450 m (0.3 miles)
A594 A426 to A5199 15,240 estimated; counted 2022 1% -8% since 2015 470 m (0.3 miles)
A426 Raw Dykes Road to A594 Almond Road 11,538 counted 2025 1% 480 m (0.3 miles)
A594 Aylestone Rd/Welford Rd to Vaughan Way 22,709 estimated; counted 2023 1% 0% since 2015 500 m (0.3 miles)

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 623 residents in 200 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 streetEngland
Median age3040
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over12%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)11%61%
Owned outright9%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented45%17%
Private rented45%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work48%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)16%6%
Retired (of adults)7%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)15%32%
Travel to work by car or van34%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus14%8%
On foot or by bicycle33%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)77%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away12%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)35%34%
No qualifications17%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification1%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)70%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all6%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 2 to 3 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.

What has changed

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Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers November 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • LE2 7GQ: 33 addresses of 34 in the postcode
  • LE2 7LA: 2 addresses of 11 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Upperton Road · Windermere Street · Walnut Street · Buttermere Street · Filbert Street · Coniston Avenue · Baysdale Road · Martindale Close · Rydal Street · Clarendon Street · Grisedale Close · Swindale Close

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What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.