Beaumont Leys
WardNorth west Leicester. About 19,822 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 9.2 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 5% of people in Beaumont Leys live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Beaumont Leys compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Beaumont Leys safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Beaumont Leys at a rate of 126.2 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 124.0 per 1,000 people across Leicester.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 250 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Beaumont Leys.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,067), other crime (515) and anti-social behaviour (377).
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Figures for the whole of Leicester
These figures are published for the whole of Leicester, not for each ward, so they describe all of Leicester and not Beaumont Leys alone. See Leicester
Beaumont Leys in brief
Beaumont Leys had 18,816 usual residents at the census.
About 5% of people in Beaumont Leys live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Beaumont Leys, 97.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Beaumont Leys, 5.4% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.