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Some 14,072 people live in this town, in Leicestershire, East Midlands.
Housing is within reach: the median home sold for £270,000, 4.9 years of area income. Overall, Blaby and Whetstone earns a B−, which places it #35 of 50 in Leicestershire. That leaves it better than 52% of UK towns. It is strong on jobs & income as well — mean household income £55,052; 2.4% of 16 to 64s claim unemployment benefits. Pupils here do less well than most: primary results beat 24% of towns in England; secondary results beat 15% of towns in England. Its other grades sit near the middle: C+ for safety, B for health and C+ for walkability.
Figures: prices, HM Land Registry, the last three years · income and life expectancy, ONS · claimants, DWP · crime, police.uk, averaged Sep 2023 to Aug 2026 · commuting, Census 2021.
Each subject compared with the 2,160 UK towns with an overall grade (schools within England), ordered by how far Blaby and Whetstone is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
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The thing Blaby and Whetstone does most differently from other towns.
Historic England lists 15 buildings inside Blaby and Whetstone’s built-up area, 2 of them Grade I.
6% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town.
Explore the history →15 listed buildings in Blaby and Whetstone, 2 of them Grade I.
Church of St Peter: Photo: Kate Jewell · CC BY-SA 2.0 · The Bakers Arms Public House: Photo: Roy William Shakespeare · CC BY-SA 2.0
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Blaby and Whetstone.
Some 1,102 pupils attend Blaby and Whetstone’s four primaries. Below is one of its 5 schools, and why it was picked. Attainment 8 at the 5 secondary schools within 3 km averages 40.8, and just over a third of pupils get grade 5 or above in English and maths.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Badgerbrook Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 398 | C+ |
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
Blaby and Whetstone’s listed buildings include the Church of All Saints, Grade I. Homes from before 1919 make up 6% of the total. It has 11 listed buildings for every 10,000 residents.
Historic England list, October 2026 · Valuation Office Agency, homes by build period · OGL
13% live in social housing, lower than both Leicestershire’s towns (15%) and England’s towns (18%). Home ownership stands at 74% of households. Private rents average £998 a month across the Blaby council area.
| By type | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | £350,000 | 157 |
| Semi-detached | £260,000 | 235 |
| Terraced | £215,000 | 86 |
| Flat or maisonette | £147,500 | 32 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid · ONS private rents · MHCLG / Welsh Government council tax · ONS Census 2021 tenure · OGL
For its size, Blaby and Whetstone records less crime per resident than 70% of the 645 UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. Reported offences in the town came to 670 over twelve months to August 2026; nuisance and anti-social incidents added 180. Violence and sexual offences made up 48% of the total. Anti-social behaviour, shown but not graded, came to 11.2 reports per 1,000, above Leicestershire’s towns (6.7) and England’s towns (7.8) alike.
Not gradedAnti-social behaviour, shoplifting and other theft are shown but left out of the Safety Grade, which counts violence and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident.
data.police.uk street-level crime · points inside the ONS built-up-area boundary · OGL · The police category of violence and sexual offences includes harassment and stalking.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in lockdown, so 29% of workers were mainly at home; shares here are of those who travelled.
For every resident in work, Blaby and Whetstone has 1.1 jobs. The car took 85% of commuters, above Leicestershire’s towns (77%) and England’s towns (70%) alike. 37% of commuters travelled under 5 km to work. Of the commuters living in the town, 12% work in the town itself.
ONS Census 2021, method of travel and distance to work · ONS small-area income · DWP claimant count · OGL
2 GP practices serve the town; 88% of patients rate theirs good in the GP Patient Survey. Life expectancy here is 84.8 for women and 81 for men (2019–23). The nearest A&E to Blaby and Whetstone is Leicester Royal Infirmary, 4.3 miles away.
| Census 2021 | Blaby and Whetstone | Leicestershire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 83% | 83% | 82% |
| Bad or very bad health | 4.5% | 4.7% | 5.2% |
| Disabled (Equality Act) | 17% | 16% | 17% |
ONS Census 2021, general health and disability · OHID Fingertips, life expectancy 2019–23 · OGL · These shares come straight from the census, without allowing for age, and young towns benefit; the Health Grade instead weighs age-adjusted measures, including life expectancy and early deaths.
The 65-and-over age group makes up just over a fifth of residents. People aged 15 to 24 make up a tenth of the town, lower than both Leicestershire’s towns (14%) and England’s towns (12%). At 42.5, the median resident of Blaby and Whetstone sits in the middle of the age range.
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
| Blaby and Whetstone | Leicestershire | England | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 18% | 18% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 14% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 26% | 27% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 25% | 25% |
| 65+ | 21% | 17% | 18% |
| No qualifications | 18% | 20% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship | 7.9% | 5.5% | 5.3% |
| A levels or similar | 19% | 18% | 17% |
| Degree level | 28% | 30% | 34% |
ONS Census 2021 · Leicestershire and England: all residents of their built-up areas · OGL
Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Blaby and Whetstone. Best known first.
MuseumNational Gas Museum4.4 km outside town, to the northMuseumMuseumFramework Knitters Museum3.2 km outside town, to the northeastCastleCastleGlen Parva Moat300 m outside town, to the northeastPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
6 notable people were born in Blaby and Whetstone.
Cherry Vann: Church in Wales, CC BY 4.0
Town in Leicestershire, England
Blaby and Whetstone is a built-up area of 14,072 people, in the Blaby council area. TownRatings uses ONS’s 2022 built-up areas as towns: the physical town, as people mean the word, rather than a council district, so its figures cover the town itself.
Built from ONS geography and Census 2021
The nearest built-up areas, from ONS’s 2022 boundaries. See them on the map →
| Town | People | Miles | Overall | Cost | Safety | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blaby and Whetstone | 14,072 | — | B− | B+ | C+ | B |
| Littlethorpe | 1,918 | 1.4 | — | B+ | B− | A− |
| Cosby | 3,518 | 1.4 | B+ | B+ | B+ | B+ |
| Countesthorpe | 7,674 | 1.4 | B+ | B | B | A |
| Enderby and Narborough | 13,178 | 2 | B+ | B+ | C | B |
| Wigston | 34,728 | 2.6 | C | B | C | C |
| Huncote | 2,168 | 2.8 | — | B+ | A | B+ |
| Croft | 1,748 | 3.2 | — | B+ | B+ | B+ |
Littlethorpe, Huncote and Croft have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. People: Census 2021. Miles: centre to centre.
GCSE results trail 85% of towns in England, and primary results trail 77% (Department for Education, Attainment 8 and Key Stage 2).
Against all UK towns, most of them smaller, it grades C+.
Surface water isn’t included. Check a specific address on GOV.UK’s flood risk service.
Sources: ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area · HM Land Registry Price Paid (standard sales, September 2023 to August 2026) · ONS Price Index of Private Rents (August 2026, by council) · MHCLG and Welsh Government council tax, Band D 2026–27 (with parish precepts in England) · data.police.uk street-level crime, 36 months to August 2026, points inside the built-up-area boundary · ONS small-area life expectancy and healthy life expectancy, 2019 to 2023 (England and Wales), OHID Fingertips small-area indicators (England) and Census 2021 health, adjusted for age · ONS small-area income estimates (financial year ending 2023) · DWP claimant count via Nomis (January to August 2026) · Historic England, National Heritage List for England (listed buildings, scheduled monuments, registered parks and gardens, battlefields, World Heritage Sites), October 2026, inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary · Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties by build period (31 March 2025) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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