Thyme Close Leicester

30 addresses across 1 postcode (LE2), about 30 m long. USRN 23104389.

  • Energy: 24 homes have an energy certificate (B: 3, C: 18, D: 3).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • 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 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Bede Park, is about 90 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: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is De Montfort Surgery, about 300 m away, with 13 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 420 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 2% of households owned their home and 31% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 555 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

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 July 2020 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

24 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 51 m². Most common: Flat (24). Built: 1996-2002 (13); 2003-2006 (8); 2007-2011 (3). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (16); rented (social) (8).

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 neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (51% of about 630 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 neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) 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): Leicester City Council HMO Article 4 Direction 2021.
  • 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.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 24 September 2026: LEICESTER CITY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 15 September 2026: LEICESTER CITY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 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, 0 at medium risk and 21 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 is in flood zone 2 or 3.

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.

© 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.

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 7EZ100%100%100%0%

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 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 2024–251.4 km (0.9 miles)
South Wigston 134,000 journeys in 2024–255 km (3.1 miles)
Narborough 294,000 journeys in 2024–257.3 km (4.6 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 43 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Coriander Road West End60 m
Bus or coach stationCharles Street Leicester1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Havelock Car Park410 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest HMP Leicester800 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsEast Midlands Airport EMA25.9 km (16 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 middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries13 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest De Montfort Surgery300 m
Pharmacies10 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Riverside Pharmacy200 m
NHS dentists15 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Damira Westcotes340 m
HospitalLeicester Royal Infirmary570 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationHinckley Road Police Station760 m (0.5 miles)
Cash machines5 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM280 m

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 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 garden6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bede Park 4.2 ha90 m
Play area9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,290 m²210 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.0 ha640 m (0.4 miles)
AllotmentsRancliffe Gardens Allotments 8.1 ha1.3 km (0.8 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 6 parks and gardens, 10 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Andrew and Attached Former Schoolroom, a listed building (Grade II*), 480 m (0.3 miles) east. 96 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 7 of them Grade I and 10 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*480 m (0.3 miles) east
Chantry HouseListed building, Grade II*630 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Turret GatewayListed building, Grade I640 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Skeffington House, Newarke Houses MuseumListed building, Grade II*660 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Leicester Castle and the Magazine GatewayScheduled monument670 m (0.4 miles) north
Greyfriars, LeicesterScheduled monument940 m (0.6 miles) north-east
Jewry Wall: remains of a Roman bath house, palaestra and Anglo-Saxon churchScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) north
Welford Road CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.2 km (0.8 miles) south-east
New Walk, LeicesterRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.3 km (0.8 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Freemens CommonWood1.2 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Old Mill RaceLake or reservoir1.5 km (1 mile) north
Old Mill StreamLake or reservoir1.7 km (1 mile) north
Shoulder of Mutton HillHill2.2 km (1.4 miles) west
Coalpit Lane SpinneyWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) south-west
The PoolLake or reservoir2.3 km (1.5 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
Under 553030

None of the street's 30 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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), 1 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Shaftesbury Junior SchoolPrimary7–11520 m (0.3 miles) Good (Feb 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hazel Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–11600 m (0.4 miles) 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
King Richard III Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–7670 m (0.4 miles) Requires improvement (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Leicester College16 plus16–99870 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Castle Mead AcademySecondary11–161.1 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Mary's Fields AcademyPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Requires improvement (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Fullhurst Community CollegeSecondary11–161.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Beauchamp City Sixth Form16 plus16–191.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Imperial Avenue Infant SchoolPrimary3–71.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Dovelands Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Report card (Sep 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
WQE and Regent College Group16 plus16–991.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Christ the King Catholic Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 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
Children 1st Leicester Nursery School LE2 7ETSchool/college/university150 m5 Very good21 Jan 2026
Starbucks LE3 0BGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m5 Very good20 Aug 2024
Chick'nd LE2 7HNTakeaway/sandwich shop190 m5 Very good8 Jul 2025
Tesco LE2 7HNRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets200 m5 Very good26 Sep 2024
Domino's Pizza LE2 7HNTakeaway/sandwich shop200 m5 Very good23 Apr 2024
Doorstep Desserts LE2 7HNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m5 Very good2 Dec 2024
Phat Buns LE2 7HNTakeaway/sandwich shop200 m5 Very good22 Jul 2025
Hey Sugar LE2 7HNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m5 Very good14 Oct 2025
Pizza King LE2 7HNTakeaway/sandwich shop200 m5 Very good15 Nov 2024
Uni Off Licence LE2 7HNRetailers - other200 m4 Good21 Jul 2025
Supreme Fish Bar LE2 7GXTakeaway/sandwich shop210 m3 Generally satisfactory16 Jul 2025
Morrisons Daily LE3 0ABRetailers - other210 m5 Very good1 Jun 2026
East West Community Community Centre LE3 0GTOther catering premises220 m5 Very good20 Nov 2024
Lidl LE3 0ADRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets220 m5 Very good21 Sep 2023
Schnaps LE3 0GTRetailers - other230 m4 Good12 Oct 2023

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.

555 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences190
Anti-social behaviour89
Shoplifting80
Public order54
Other theft34
Criminal damage and arson27
Robbery18
Drugs16
Vehicle crime12
Bicycle theft12
Burglary9
Theft from the person7
Possession of weapons4
Other crime3

Most of these are attached to: On or near Western Boulevard (132); On or near Supermarket (122); On or near Tarragon Road (105); On or near Rydal Street (56); On or near Ullswater Street (42).

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 street's postcodes are in: 415 residents in 86 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 age2140
Children under 1512%17%
Aged 65 and overunder 1%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)2%61%
Owned outright1%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented21%17%
Private rented77%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work45%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)21%6%
Retired (of adults)under 1%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)13%32%
Travel to work by car or van43%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus9%8%
On foot or by bicycle30%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)77%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)31%34%
No qualifications5%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)60%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all4%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 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

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

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

Nearby streets

Mint Road · Sage Road · Coriander Road · Watkin Road · Tarragon Road · Eastern Boulevard · Rydal Street · Ullswater Street · Coniston Avenue · Mill Lane · Windermere Street · Grasmere Street

All the streets in LE2 and across Leicester.

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.
  • 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.