Leicester Forest East and Kirby Muxloe
TownTown in Blaby, East Midlands.
Leicester Forest East and Kirby Muxloe is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Leicester Forest East and Kirby Muxloe add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 52% of people in Leicester Forest East and Kirby Muxloe live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Leicester Forest East and Kirby Muxloe compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Leicester Forest East and Kirby Muxloe safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Leicester Forest East and Kirby Muxloe at a rate of 58.5 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 93.5 per 1,000 people across East Midlands.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 104 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Leicester Forest East and Kirby Muxloe.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (295), other crime (164) and anti-social behaviour (100).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Leicester Forest East and Kirby Muxloe was 61.4 per 1,000 people.
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.
Deprivation in Leicester Forest East and Kirby Muxloe, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Leicester Forest East and Kirby Muxloe has no single figure. Of its 9 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 8: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Leicester Forest East and Kirby Muxloe
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blaby 002A | 1,567 | 49.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.2% |
| Blaby 002B | 1,364 | 31.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.6% |
| Blaby 002C | 1,870 | 116.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.2% |
| Blaby 002D | 1,265 | 84.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.6% |
| Blaby 003A | 2,021 | 33.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.5% |
| Blaby 003B | 1,472 | 33.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 82.7% |
| Blaby 003C | 1,298 | 46.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.4% |
| Blaby 003D | 1,605 | 44.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 86.5% |
| Blaby 006B | 2,542 | 69.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 92.0% |
Your MP
- Mr Peter BedfordConservativeMP for Mid Leicestershire
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Leicester Forest East and Kirby Muxloe3
Middle areas in Leicester Forest East and Kirby Muxloe2
Towns near Leicester Forest East and Kirby Muxloe6
Leicester Forest East and Kirby Muxloe in brief
Leicester Forest East and Kirby Muxloe is a town in Blaby, East Midlands.
About 14,868 people lived in Leicester Forest East and Kirby Muxloe in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £325,000 in 2025 across 260 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 58.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Leicester Forest East and Kirby Muxloe was £325,000 in 2025.
Leicester Forest East and Kirby Muxloe had 13,847 usual residents at the census.
About 52% of people in Leicester Forest East and Kirby Muxloe live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Leicester Forest East and Kirby Muxloe, 94.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.