LE3 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

1,828 of the district's 2,632 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 52.63179, -1.17681, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in LE3

Companies House lists 6,502 companies with a registered office in LE3; 1,180 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 LE3

• East Midlands
• Leicester
• City of Leicester
• Leicestershire
• Blaby
• Leicester Forest East
• Groby
• Hinckley and Bosworth

Roads filed under LE3

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.

• Acacia Close
• Acres Road
• Adcock Road
• Aikman Avenue
• Aikman Close
• Ainsdale Road
• Ainsworth Walk
• Alcott Close
• Alder Close
• Alexander Street
• Allerton Drive
• Allexton Gardens
• Alliance Road
• All Saints Road
• Alma Street
• Alvaston Road
• Ambrose Close
• Amhurst Close
• Amos Road
• Amy Street
• Andrewes Close
• Andrewes Street
• Andrewes Walk
• Appleby Close
• Arden Avenue
• Ardern Terrace
• Arum Way
• Arundel Street
• Ashdown Avenue
• Ashington Close
• Ashleigh Road
• Ashlyns Rise
• Ashridge Close
• Ashthorpe Road
• Ashurst Road
• Aspen Court
• Astley Close
• Attenborough Close
• Audley End
• Augusta Close
• Avery Hill
• Avington Close
• Avon Road
• Aylmer Road
• Ayston Road
• Bainbridge Road
• Baines Lane
• Balcombe Avenue
• Balfour Street
• Balmoral Drive
• Bannister Road
• Barbara Road
• Barclay Street
• Bardon Close
• Barley Close
• Barrow Lane
• Barton Road
• Bassett Street
• Bateman Road
• Bath Lane

Check an address in LE3

Check an address in LE3

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=LE3" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about LE3

What does an LE3 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the LE3 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 1,828 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 LE3

• LE13.0 km
• LE873.1 km
• LE64.8 km
• LE24.9 km
• LE45.1 km
• LE195.5 km
• LE56.2 km
• LE187.0 km
• LE79.0 km
• LE99.6 km
• LE810.2 km
• LE1215.2 km
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distance between the districts' centroids