LE2 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

2,062 of the district's 2,810 postcodes are live in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there. The live postcodes centre on 52.60722, -1.11671, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in LE2

Companies House lists 8,526 companies with a registered office in LE2; 1,413 of them at addresses shared by 25 or more companies (1 October 2026 snapshot). 25 is the count at which the address lookup reports a company cluster.

Places OS Open Names lists for LE2

• East Midlands
• Leicester
• City of Leicester
• Leicestershire
• Oadby and Wigston
• Oadby
• Blaby
• Harborough
• Wigston
• Stoughton
• Little Stretton
• Great Stretton

Roads filed under LE2

Named roads first, then numbered ones. A road is filed under one district even where it runs through several, so a street missing here may be listed under a neighbouring district — which is why the address lookup never calls a British street absent. Great Britain has no open register of buildings, so a listed road never means a building on it exists.

• Abbots Drive
• Aberdale Road
• Aber Road
• Abingdon Road
• Abingdon Walk
• Adderley Road
• Adlington Road
• Aintree Crescent
• Albert Road
• Albion Street
• Aldeby Close
• Alderleigh Road
• Alexandra Road
• Allandale Road
• Allenwood Road
• Almond Road
• Althorp Close
• Alton Road
• Alvecote Road
• Amanda Road
• Ambleside Close
• Ambleside Drive
• Ambleside Way
• Andover Street
• Ann's Way
• Apollo Close
• Apollo Court
• Apple Crescent
• Arnesby Crescent
• Arreton Close
• Ashbourne Street
• Ashclose Avenue
• Ashfield Road
• Ashford Road
• Ashton Close
• Ash Tree Close
• Ash Tree Road
• Asplin Road
• Asquith Boulevard
• Asquith Way
• Aston Hill
• Atherstone Close
• Atkins Street
• Atlas Close
• Attlee Way
• Autumn Road
• Avenue Gardens
• Avenue Road
• Avenue Road Extension
• Avon Close
• Avon Street
• Aylestone Drive
• Aylestone Lane
• Aylestone Road
• Aylestone Walk
• Babingdon Row
• Badgers Holt
• Bakewell Street
• Baldwin Road
• Balmoral Close

Check an address in LE2

Check an address in LE2

The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=LE2" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about LE2

What does an LE2 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the LE2 district of the LE (Leicester) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Leicester. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 2,062 live postcodes.

Where the counts come from

• ons-postcode-directory · version 2026-08 · Contains ONS, OS and Royal Mail data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Northern Ireland postcodes are excluded: their reuse needs a Land & Property Services licence.
• os-open-names · version 2026-11-01 · Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
• uk-companies-house · version 2026-10-01 · Companies House free company data product, Open Government Licence v3.0

What each figure means, and what a district page never says, is set out in Reading a British postcode district page; the glossary defines a postcode district, a postcode area, a postcode directory and a street register.

Data synced on 2026-11-01: the newest version among the datasets listed above.

Districts nearest LE2

• LE182.7 km
• LE872.8 km
• LE13.2 km
• LE54.1 km
• LE34.9 km
• LE86.0 km
• LE46.4 km
• LE196.6 km
• LE78.7 km
• LE69.6 km
• LE911.8 km
• LE1716.1 km
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distance between the districts' centroids