Glen Parva population

17,189people · latest estimate

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By James Burfield, SEO consultant, Bath · Page updated 25 September 2026 · GeoNames

Glen Parva has a population of 17,189, making it the 11th largest place in Leicestershire.

#11

of 123 in Leicestershire

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

Glen Parva in context

5 km

east to Wigston Magna, the nearest larger town

672,295

people live within 10 km

#756

largest of 6,358 UK places

250

food businesses in Blaby

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 Glen Parva sits in postcode district LE2.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Blaby, the billing authority covering Glen Parva, is £2,490 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 Glen Parva?

The populated place itself holds 17,189 residents. The wider Blaby council area recorded 108,423 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.

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Population since 2001

Blaby, year by year from ONS estimates

Postcode district LE2

Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Leicestershire

#	Place	Population
1	Earl Shilton	19,578
2	Mountsorrel	17,297
3	Evington	17,268
4	Braunstone	16,850
5	Leicester Forest East	13,846
6	Shepshed	13,505

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