Blaby

11°CPartly Cloudy

• Today: 13° / 4° · 29% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 6° · Partly Cloudy

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:01Sunset 16:35

9h 34m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

58US AQI · Moderate

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Leicester University, United Kingdom

• 7.3 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 5.5% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

72 reported · August 2026▲ 50% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences26
• Anti-social behaviour19
• Criminal damage & arson7
• Public order6

1 stop & searches

Neighbourhood team: Enderby, Narborough, New Lubbesthorpe, Littlethorpe and Fosse Park · Leicestershire

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

117 reported road collisions (2025)

38 killed or seriously injured · 166 casualties · 11.4 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

156 food businesses within 2 miles

• 129 rated 4–5 ★ (118 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Narborough (1.1 km)
• 42 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£293,412 average▲ 3.4% YoY

Across Blaby · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£998 average monthly rent▲ 5.6% YoY

• 1 bed £711
• 2 bed £912
• 3 bed £1,082

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

7.0× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 7.0 times median annual pay (8.1× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

1,375 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

• Cheapest petrol: 140.8p · AppleGreen (9 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 145.8p · AppleGreen (9 km)

11 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

65 charging locations within ~8 km

• 12 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 150 kW
• Nearest: Station Road (0.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres4
• Sports pitches9
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds8

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

102,924 residents in Blaby · 789/km²

• Under 16: 19%
• 16–64: 61%
• 65+: 20%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK6,923
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK6,202
• Net moves+721

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

Among the least deprived areas in England

Ranked 265 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,490 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band B (35% of 44,770)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

33 schools · 12,126 pupils

27 primary · 3 secondary · 3 other

Ofsted: 13 of 17 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (76%)

32 inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Blaby

633 CQC-registered services

• Care homes165
• GP practices107
• Dentists134
• Homecare agencies172
• Hospitals & hospices14

CQC ratings: 89% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 2 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Leicestershire

• Not in the Green Belt
• 39 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

105 applications decided

95.2% granted · 100 granted, 5 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Conservative (minority)

• Lab 5
• Con 18
• LD 8
• Grn 2
• Ref 1
• Oth 2

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Schools6
• GPs & clinics1
• Pharmacies3
• Supermarkets2
• Parks & greens20
• Restaurants & cafés15

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

4,840 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

25 jobs advertised · £29,679 avg

e.g. Chef Manager, Coating Technician, Administrator

Source: Adzuna

£788 median full-time weekly pay

2.2% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£22,274 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

42% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 40,676 certificates

8.1% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

Life expectancy: 84.3 yrs women · 81.3 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Leicestershire): 61.4 women · 61.5 men

72% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.3
• Feeling worthwhile7.7
• Happiness yesterday7.4
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.5

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in South Leicestershire:

• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth360 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills242 local signatures · 111,154 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND227 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Stop megasheds being built & operated 24/7 close to homes and communities 170 local signatures · 11,425 nationwide
• Launch a public inquiry into illegal migration in the UK154 local signatures · 78,478 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

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  Carlton Hayes Hospital · 0.2 km

  Carlton Hayes Hospital, Narborough, Leicestershire was the psychiatric hospital of Leicestershire from 1907 to 1995.

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  Brockington College · 0.8 km

  Brockington College is a mixed Church of England secondary school located in Enderby, Leicestershire, England. Founded in 1957, it originally operated as a middle school for pupils aged 11 to 14 before transitioning t…

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  Enderby, Leicestershire · 0.9 km

  Enderby is a village and civil parish in Leicestershire, England, on the southwest outskirts of the city of Leicester. The parish includes the neighbourhood of St John's, which is east of the village separated from it…

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  Narborough Hall · 0.9 km

  Narborough Hall is a Grade II* listed building in Narborough in Leicestershire. Believed to date from 1596 this Elizabethan manor house was built by James Meade, a local landowner. However, it was only after it was ex…

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  All Saints Church, Narborough · 1.0 km

  All Saints' Church, Narborough is a parish church in the Church of England in Narborough, Leicestershire.

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  Narborough, Leicestershire · 1.0 km

  Narborough is a large village and civil parish in the Blaby district of Leicestershire, England, around six miles southwest of Leicester. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 8,498.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)