Undergraduates

How to check the IMD quintile of your home postcode

If you live in England, please use the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government postcode checker. Please see the links at the bottom of this page if you live in Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland.

  • Go to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government postcode look up tool.
  • Students enrolling in the academic year 2026-27 should check eligibility using IMD 2019.
  • Prospective students applying for 2027-28 entry should check eligibility using IMD 2025.
  • Enter your postcode in the ‘Enter postcodes’ box.
  • Click ‘Get deprivation data' green box. Once complete the page will tell you if your postcode has been matched.
  • The matched data for your home postcode will be available as an xlsx or csv file. To open in Excel, download the xlsx file.
  • Column H in the downloaded spreadsheet gives you the Index of Multiple Deprivation Decile. This will be a number from 1 to 10.

Your IMD quintile is:

  • Decile 1 or 2 = IMD quintile 1
  • Decile 3 or 4 = IMD quintile 2
  • Decile 5 or 6 = IMD quintile 3
  • Decile 7 or 8 = IMD quintile 4
  • Decile 9 or 10 = IMD quintile 5

You can use this tool to see if you meet criteria for some of our scholarships, or if you are eligible to take part in AccessLeicester. 

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