Neighbourhoods in Blaby
Tap any row or map polygon to drill into that neighbourhood — hovering on desktop will preview the link before you click. Switch the tab strip above the table to focus on Affordability, Schools, Transport, Safety or Wealth — the columns swap and the default sort follows.
12 neighbourhoods · 60 sub-areas
Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.
| Braunstone Town | £915 | +6.1% | 26 | 62 |
| Blaby Village | £918 | +6.1% | 58 | 62 |
| Thorpe Astley | £921 | +6.1% | 26 | 63 |
| Enderby & Glen Parva | £930 | +6.1% | 54 | 72 |
| Whetstone | £945 | +6.1% | 77 | 68 |
| Cosby, Croft & Elmesthorpe | £964 | +6.1% | 48 | 91 |
| Countesthorpe & Kilby | £975 | +6.1% | 66 | 92 |
| Stoney Stanton, Sapcote & Sharnford | £978 | +6.1% | 26 | 80 |
| Leicester Forest East | £991 | +6.1% | 32 | 73 |
| Narborough | £1,014 | +6.1% | 73 | 75 |
| Glenfield | £1,019 | +6.1% | 45 | 80 |
| Kirby Muxloe & Thurlaston | £1,122 | +6.1% | 44 | 91 |
Sources: ONS, MHCLG, DfT, DESNZ, Defra, Police.uk, Ofsted, Ofcom, HM Land Registry. Some columns (salary, council tax, HPI) are published at council-area level.
Where to look in Blaby
Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in Blaby. Each list is filtered from the same neighbourhood data above — the basis of each shortlist is stated above the list so you know what's been weighted.
Lowest estimated monthly rent. Rent is the LAD-published ONS PIPR median, scaled per neighbourhood by local sale prices (Land Registry).
Highest composite liveability — combines safety, schools, transport access and rental affordability into one 0–100 score (higher = more liveable).
Highest liveability per pound of rent — desirable areas where rent stays close to or below the Blaby median.
Cost of living
Median rent and council tax across Blaby.
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.
Safety in Blaby
Crime in Blaby runs at 46% below the national average. Above median (#108 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 54.6, averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods.
How crime is measured
What's counted. Incidents recorded by territorial police forces and published to data.police.uk each month. Rates use the latest 12 months of data divided by the area's mid-2024 ONS resident population — so the figure is reported incidents per 1,000 residents per year.
Anti-social behaviour is the largest category in most areas and is worth reading carefully — it's a community-reports bucket (noise, rowdiness, nuisance), not "crime" in the legal sense. ASB and shoplifting are weighted lower than violent offences in the safety score on each page.
Caveats. The denominator is residents, so workday and tourist destinations can look worse than they feel for someone living there. Greater Manchester forces stopped publishing to data.police.uk in 2020, so figures for those areas are intentionally blank rather than misleadingly low.
Crime detailTop crime types · safest neighbourhoods in this council area
Source: data.police.uk — incident counts adjusted for population, then averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods. National average = England + Wales population-weighted mean.
Schools in Blaby
100% of schools serving Blaby are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. Best 5% nationally (#1 of 296 cities)
School breakdownOfsted distribution · best neighbourhoods for schools
Ofsted school inspection ratings, latest inspection per school.
Transport in Blaby
Modelled door-to-door commute from this council area to nearby employment hubs. Closest first.
Transport detailAll city commute times · mode share · best-connected neighbourhoods
DfT Journey Time Statistics + ONS Travel-to-Work.
Job access from Blaby
Blaby has 0.66 jobs per resident locally. Best 10%
Job access detailReachability tiers · sector mix in this council area
ONS BRES (jobs density) + DfT job-accessibility minutes.
Frequently asked about Blaby
Short answers to the questions we get most often. Each answer is anchored in the data above and links onward where you can dig deeper.
- What is the average rent in Blaby?
- The median monthly rent across Blaby is £977, based on ONS Private Rental Prices data. Individual neighbourhoods vary — see the shortlist above for the cheapest and most desirable areas.
- Where is the cheapest place to rent in Blaby?
- The cheapest neighbourhood in Blaby by estimated median rent is Braunstone Town at approximately £915/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
- What's the best neighbourhood to live in Blaby?
- By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in Blaby is Whetstone at 77/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
- Is Blaby a safe area?
- Blaby has an average safety score of 73/100 across its constituent neighbourhoods (higher is safer). The score is the national percentile rank of police-recorded crimes per 1,000 residents per year, inverted so 100 means the safest 1% of England + Wales.
- What is council tax in Blaby?
- The most common council tax band in Blaby is not yet published, with the Band D annual charge currently around £352. Council tax is set at the local authority level so the same banding applies to every postcode within Blaby.
- What is the average salary in Blaby?
- The median annual resident salary in Blaby is £31,950, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in Blaby, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
- What is the average house price in Blaby?
- The average property price in Blaby is approximately £283,240 according to HM Land Registry's House Price Index. Individual neighbourhoods vary — typically ±20% around this council area median.
- What's the rental yield in Blaby?
- Gross rental yield in Blaby is approximately 3.9% — the council-area level median rent annualised over the council-area level median sale price. Net yield (after agency, void, maintenance and tax) typically runs 30–40% lower.
- How long does it take to save a deposit in Blaby?
- Saving a 10% deposit at the council area median sale price on the council area median salary, while putting away 10% of takehome pay each month, takes approximately 4.3 years in Blaby. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
- Is gigabit broadband available in Blaby?
- 100% of premises in Blaby are gigabit-capable per Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Coverage is patchier in older terraces and rural fringes — check your specific postcode for service availability.
- What's the unemployment rate in Blaby?
- 2.2% of 16-64 residents in Blaby are on the DWP Claimant Count — Universal Credit while seeking work, or Jobseeker's Allowance. That's the live monthly local indicator. It's narrower than the ONS Labour Force Survey "ILO unemployment rate" (which counts anyone actively job-seeking on a separate denominator) and narrower again than Census 2021's "% unemployed" (which is calculated against all 16+ residents and so isn't directly comparable).
- How many neighbourhoods are in Blaby?
- Blaby contains 12 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 60 sub-areas (local areas). Browse the full list at the bottom of this page or use the neighbourhood map above to drill into a specific area.
What you need on day one
All sub-areas in Blaby
Every local area, ordered by crawl priority. Most readers want the neighbourhood-level view — these are for deep-link cases or external search-engine arrivals.
- Blaby 004C
- Blaby 013A
- Blaby 009D
- Blaby 004D
- Blaby 006B
- Blaby 005F
- Blaby 006C
- Blaby 007B
- Blaby 005D
- Blaby 002A
- Blaby 011D
- Blaby 007C
- Blaby 008E
- Blaby 013E
- Blaby 004A
- Blaby 009C
- Blaby 013F
- Blaby 006A
- Blaby 007A
- Blaby 012B
- Blaby 013D
- Blaby 012E
- Blaby 013C
- Blaby 008C
- Blaby 002C
- Blaby 005G
- Blaby 005B
- Blaby 011B
- Blaby 007D
- Blaby 005C
- Blaby 006F
- Blaby 005E
- Blaby 008A
- Blaby 010B
- Blaby 010E
- Blaby 004B
- Blaby 005A
- Blaby 008D
- Blaby 013B
- Blaby 003A
- Blaby 008B
- Blaby 009A
- Blaby 011C
- Blaby 006E
- Blaby 012A
- Blaby 007E
- Blaby 003D
- Blaby 009B
- Blaby 006D
- Blaby 010D
- Blaby 011A
- Blaby 003E
- Blaby 010A
- Blaby 003C
- Blaby 002D
- Blaby 002B
- Blaby 012C
- Blaby 003B
- Blaby 010C
- Blaby 012D