If you’re looking for the perfect place to live, then Leicester and Leicestershire is the ideal location to make a home.

Choose to live in a place where the countryside is never far away, where three Universities and their 60,000 students feed a pipeline of high quality jobs and businesses. It’s in the perfect location, with great travel connections from the M1 two international airports within an hour of the city, and  London only an hour by train.  

Located right in the heart of the country, you’ll have access to outstanding schools, affordable housing and a cultural offer that is famous around the world. Our sports teams are known around the world, and the huge diversity of cultures here mean that you can travel the world through the food you eat. In the city and towns, boutique and independent stores rub shoulders with big name chains, and our range of attractions, from the UK’s National Space Centre to a home for primates at Twycross Zoo mean you’ll never be short of something to do!