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On Hobart Street, in Leicester City South
What it's like at LE2 0JS: every home that has sold on Hobart Street since 1995 and who owns them, what's happening down the road, crime on the street, a day in the life, history on the doorstep and what's changing nearby. Moving, buying, selling, improving or investing? Pick a lens above for what matters to you.
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ORR, DfE, police.uk, OS Terrain 50 and Open Greenspace, Forestry Commission, Defra noise maps (England), Xoserve. Every distance: Moving; radon, ground and flood checks: Buying.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Hobart Street; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
3 of the 8 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 2, Hobart StreetTerraced | Apr 2022 | £270,000 | 163 m² | £1,656/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4, Hobart StreetTerraced · company-owned | May 2015 | £167,000 | 120 m² | £1,392/m² | 2 |
| 5, Hobart StreetSemi-detached · company-owned | Dec 2025 | £210,000 | 165 m² | £1,273/m² | 4 |
| 10, Hobart StreetTerraced | Feb 2011 | £192,500 | 169 m² | £1,139/m² | 3 |
| 12, Hobart StreetTerraced · company-owned | Jan 2017 | £205,000 | 140 m² | £1,464/m² | 1 |
| 13, Hobart StreetTerraced | Mar 1995 | £28,000 | 181 m² | £155/m² | 1 |
| 16, Hobart StreetTerraced | Mar 2025 | £294,000 | 160 m² | £1,838/m² | 4 |
| 18, Hobart StreetTerraced | Jul 2003 | £145,000 | – | – | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Leicester, a few minutes' walk (300 m), with 5.5m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London St Pancras International.
The nearest bus stop is Lincoln Street, 50 m away, with a bus about every 30 minutes on weekdays (route 16); 179 departures an hour from the 14 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Plenty of jobs are close by: somewhere with 5,000 or more jobs (a town centre, business park or big hospital) is about 10 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
62% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is Sparkenhoe Community Primary School, a few minutes' walk (50 m); 68% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Hazel Community Primary School (0.5 km).
The nearest secondary is Moat Community College, 300 m away; Attainment 8: 44.6 · 8% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Castle Mead Academy (1.4 km) and Brook Mead Academy (2.8 km).
Few families with young children: only 7% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Tesco Express, 200 m away, with Zam Zam Store closer still (100 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Shefa Medical Practice (100 m), with Highem Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (100 m).
For a haircut, Headlines Creative Hair is 400 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Leicester Royal Infirmary, 350 m away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 59% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 60% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 15 weeks).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 44 restaurants and cafés and 11 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Tribez is the closest café or restaurant (200 m), and Mount Zion Inn the nearest pub (250 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (20 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 295 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
Much of it is protected: 54% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (New Walk, South Highfields).
There are 62 listed buildings.
Homes are mostly flats (67%).
The typical home here was built in 1993-1999.
It's growing: about 377 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Prebend Gardens, 150 m away; for exercise, PureGym (400 m).
74 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
| Building | Grade | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Former Collegiate School Leicester | II | 50 m |
| Collegiate House | II | 50 m |
Grade I and II* are the most important few per cent. Listing means consent is needed for most changes, inside and out. Contains Historic England data © Historic England 2026 (via planning.data.gov.uk), OGL.
Leicester South constituency: Shockat Adam MP (Independent), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Ind gain from Lab, majority 979 (2.3%), turnout 59%. Vote shares: Independent 35%, Labour 33%, Conservative 12%, Green Party 9%.
45 new homes, planning permissions and school changes on record within 2 km, plus energy projects, road works, storm overflows and major infrastructure. Everything changing near LE2 0JS →
Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 17.6 µg/m³).
For holidays, East Midlands is 26 km away, and Birmingham, with far more destinations, 46 km.
Many neighbours rent: 54% of households rent privately and 35% socially.
It's young: 65% of residents are aged 15–29.
This is a student area: 60% of adults were full-time students at the 2021 census, so expect shared houses, busy term times and quiet summers.
The nearest university is De Montfort University, 1.2 km away (TEF Silver).
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.
Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
Nearest: Rutland Water Sykes Lane · about 44 min
Nearest: Pingles Leisure Centre · about 33 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
On this street: 0 of 7 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 0 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.0% | 1.6% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.2% | 0.4% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 74.3% | 90.6% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 21.6% | 7.6% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 3.6% | 1.1% | 2.1% |
From each home's latest energy certificate, so panels or heat pumps fitted since aren't counted and the shares are lower than today's real figures. Compare areas in the data explorer.
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police.uk, 2025-09 to 2026-08. Crimes are mapped to the nearest of a set of anonymised points and labelled with that point's street, so busy roads and junctions collect crimes from nearby; the street has about 8 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.