What does an LE87 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the LE87 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 39 live postcodes.

LE87 postcode district

LE87, in the LE (Leicester) postcode area, has 39 live and 43 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 1 road under it.

postcode area	LE (Leicester)
live postcodes	39
terminated postcodes	43
sectors	2
roads listed	1
centroid	52.63130, -1.13113
directory release	2026-08

Postcodes and sectors

39 of the district's 82 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 52.63130, -1.13113, which locates the district, not a building.

sector	live	terminated
LE87 2	5	5
LE87 4	34	38

Places OS Open Names lists for LE87

East Midlands
Leicester
City of Leicester
Leicestershire
Wigston
Oadby and Wigston
Whetstone
Blaby

Roads filed under LE87

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.

Siddons Walk

Check an address in LE87

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=LE87" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about LE87

What does an LE87 postcode tell you?: That the address lies in the LE87 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 39 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 LE87

LE10.3 km
LE22.8 km
LE33.1 km
LE53.2 km
LE43.7 km
LE185.5 km
LE76.8 km
LE197.2 km
LE67.5 km
LE88.9 km
LE912.0 km
LE1215.8 km
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