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Glenfield
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Glenfield population

10,000people · latest estimate

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Glenfield has a population of 10,000, making it the 17th largest place in Leicestershire.

#17
of 123 in Leicestershire

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

Glenfield in context

3 km
south-west to Leicester Forest East, the nearest larger town
607,558
people live within 10 km
#1,249
largest of 6,358 UK places
250
food businesses in Blaby
Glenfield 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 Glenfield sits in postcode district LE3.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Blaby, the billing authority covering Glenfield, 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 Glenfield?
The populated place itself holds 10,000 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.

Go deeper

Population since 2001
Blaby, year by year from ONS estimates
Postcode district LE3
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Leicestershire

#PlacePopulation
1Shepshed13,505
2Ashby-de-la-Zouch12,370
3Syston11,508
4Lutterworth9,907
5Kirby Muxloe9,712
6Broughton Astley8,940

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