Population Statistics
Aylestone
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Aylestone population

11,151people · latest estimate

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Aylestone has a population of 11,151, making it the 5th largest place in City of Leicester.

#5
of 6 in City of Leicester

Year-by-year official estimates for the wider area: Leicester population trends, 2001–2025.

Aylestone in context

3 km
south-west to Glen Parva, the nearest larger town
643,671
people live within 10 km
#1,154
largest of 6,358 UK places
Aylestone in the UK

Distances are straight-line from the settlement's recorded coordinates. The 10 km figure sums the recorded places within that radius, so it describes how built-up the surroundings are rather than people per square kilometre.

The centre of Aylestone sits in postcode district LE2.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Leicester, the billing authority covering Aylestone, is £2,529 for 2026–27.

From MHCLG's council tax statistics (Table 9): the area average including police, fire and parish precepts, so it is the council's figure rather than the town's, and your own band depends on your property's 1991 valuation.

Common questions

What is the population of Aylestone?
The populated place itself holds 11,151 residents. The wider Leicester council area recorded 383,116 in 2025. Each figure describes a different boundary and all are correct; the meanings table on this page says which is which, because a population without its boundary is not an answer.

Go deeper

Population since 2001
Leicester, year by year from ONS estimates
Postcode district LE2
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in City of Leicester

#PlacePopulation
1Humberstone18,854
2Birstall12,216
3Belgrave11,558
4Wolsey Island430

All 6 places in City of Leicester →