LE5 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

1,469 of the district's 2,082 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 52.63834, -1.08522, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in LE5

Companies House lists 7,998 companies with a registered office in LE5; 1,781 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 LE5

• Leicester
• East Midlands
• City of Leicester
• Leicestershire
• Blaby
• Charnwood
• Harborough

Roads filed under LE5

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.

• Abbot's Road North
• Abbots Close
• Abbots Court
• Abbotsford Road
• Abbots Road South
• Abelia Close
• Abney Street
• Aintree Close
• Albermarle Close
• Alberta Street
• Alcester Drive
• Aldfield Green
• Aldgate Avenue
• Allinson Close
• Ambassador Road
• Ambassador Walk
• Ampleforth Lane
• Amyson Road
• Angela Drive
• Antringham Close
• Archway Road
• Ardleigh Road
• Armadale Drive
• Armadale Green
• Arncliffe Road
• Asfordby Street
• Ashby Glade
• Ashover Road
• Ash Street
• Ashtree Road
• Atkinson Street
• Attlebridge Close
• Austin Rise
• Averil Road
• Avoca Close
• Avonside Drive
• Baden Road
• Baggrave Street
• Bakers Way
• Balderstone Close
• Ballater Close
• Bankside
• Bannerman Road
• Barbara Avenue
• Barker Street
• Barleyman Close
• Barling Road
• Barnes Heath Road
• Barnstaple Road
• Baronet Way
• Barry Road
• Baslow Road
• Bathurst Road
• Bayham Close
• Beatty Avenue
• Beatty Road
• Beaumont Road
• Beckett Road
• Beeby Road
• Beech Street

Check an address in LE5

Check an address in LE5

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=LE5" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about LE5

What does an LE5 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the LE5 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 1,469 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 LE5

• LE873.2 km
• LE13.3 km
• LE44.0 km
• LE24.1 km
• LE74.7 km
• LE36.2 km
• LE186.4 km
• LE89.3 km
• LE1910.1 km
• LE610.2 km
• LE915.1 km
• LE1216.1 km
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distance between the districts' centroids