The 5 WORST Areas to LIVE in LEICESTER (Poverty/Crime Stats Included)

[@ukexplored]

I had an awesome day out in Leicester, as you can probably see from the video. Thanks for watching, all comments and feedback is welcome, I read and obsess over every comment - so be nice! 😁 I'll be out and about soon, feel free to recommend some more of the UK's finest destinations. Cheers!

[@darren253]

Saint Matthews is mostly ethnic And opposite Kent Street at night is haven for drug ladies of the night.

[@Budgiearmy]

Great vid as always

[@stevechapman9099]

You missed out Highfields

[@Induna123]

Stoke-On-Trent next?

[@emmajulian8716]

Aylestone? where you filmed is the monsel estate not Aylestone

[@patienceRachel]

The fact that saffron lane and new parks weren't mentioned is wild

[@Adz_Win]

..highfields is the safest ❤

[@blackvixencrypt]

Legit was saying this to my partner then saw this comment! 😂

[@patrickfegerline]

@@Adz_Winno it’s not 😂

[@leicestercityfc-i7b]

inni 😂

[@grahamjohnpreston]

I delivered milk in and around most parts of Leicester from 1990 to 2002 and the one place that bothered me was Rowletts Hill. Just a concrete jungle. Demolishing the two high rise flats didn't do much to help the place tbh. Enjoyed delivering to Braunstone many times. The people I encountered were 'salt of the earth' type. You got to know where you stood with the them. Most issues and problems were apparently dealt with by the people that lived there, if you know what I mean. Interesting video. 👍🏻

[@travellinglostsoul7191]

I lived in high fields in 2010. While I had no problems and actually enjoyed my time there, I wasn’t oblivious to the dangers there. There was even a body found just around the corner from my house

[@creeppp]

as someone from Leicester I appreciate you shining the camera onto the city (Maybe not in the best light lol).

[@ukexplored]

Thanks. I find this stuff really interesting 😀 I did my home city the same way, won’t say which video it is 🤐

[@hauntinggoingonwithangelamylif]

Shame he hasn't done Coventry I was born in Leicester

[@clairesmith2240]

@@hauntinggoingonwithangelamylif ain’t it just

[@Neil-me4bu]

Even the pigeons fly upside down cus there's nothing worth shitting on

[@nataliegriffin7727]

I 2nd this comment 😂😂😂

[@chocoholic832]

I live there & know what you mean 😂

[@vx.calibre2901]

Just spat my tea out🤣

[@foxesfan5084]

Mentioned Aylestone but most of the filming for that segment was Eyres Monsell.

[@CarlTebbutt]

Falls under the Aylestone ward as does Saffron Lane in part.

[@JL-fj8zj]

It was aylestone, not monsell

[@darren253]

Never live in the city centre again. used to live in the tower block opposite the train station and shoe shop on the corner of London road. Moved to Thurmaston safe and peace.

[@nailbomb420]

The shoe shop, you mean blunts and hoes ahahah

[@Wackadoodoono1]

I was born in Leicester in the 1950s,when they demolished a lot of terraced housing to build st Matthews it was a lovely area. I moved to Skegness over thirty years ago, i couldn't believe the state of st Matthews now it's grimy and looks a lot older than it is. When it was first built it was great we had great shops , a decent pub and a lovely working mens club. It was depressing to see it now.

[@maryelisabeth7167]

Bless you ! Out of the frying pan and into the fire 🔥

[@Wackadoodoono1]

Why do you say that, I now live in a two bed bungalow on the south side of Skegness. It's a vast improvement on St Matthews, it's quiet and only five minutes walk from the railway station, beach and town centre.

[@ashwhooooo]

​its a concrete jungle and the people there not all but most are not English and its full of gangs n drugs horrible estate not long back it was the worst for unemployment in britain

[@Socialistcheese111]

I lived in leicester for about 10 years and spent 4 of those in a house slap bang between two brothels in Westcotes. It is a weird place, a shit tonne of poverty and large transitory communities that never help. For the most part if you aren't involved in drugs and illegal business you are alright, I walked many a time home from pubs in town on Naughborough road and never came to any sort of harm. However my local barber did tell me a story about a drug dealer being beheaded in the street by a rival a few blocks away!

[@boyinthecorner-666]

Did you sample the brothels😂

[@s125h3]

Welcome to Leicester 😂

[@mancfox]

Good video although the Aylestone area you covered was more Eyres Monsell estate - around the shops you filmed is old Aylestone village which is alright but the white houses and the parks you filmed were on The Monsell as its known locally, which is pretty rough. Westcotes is a strange one as half of it isn't anywhere near as bad is the other half. Around Narb Rd it's OK-ish but go on the other side of Hinckley Road and it becomes dodge central - used to get most of my drugs round there! Great vid though but as another commented above, Saffron Lane estate, New Parks, Highfields, Evington Rd/East Park Rd area are worth a visit if you're into your dodgy places, plus quite a few more too.

[@trudistringer2856]

That’s what I thought too, or Glenhills area

[@nickilindsay865]

Me too, Aylestone is definitely in two halves. The Monsell and the Saff are vastly different from the other parts. Almost like Aylestone/Lutterworth road splits the good and bad parts in two.

[@visakhsuresh5148]

As someone who used to live in Braunstone, I actually never experienced any sort of crimes. There are some spots but still, you can say it’s one of the worst but in reality, nothing really goes on and it’s only a few occurrences

[@Geoffbrower007]

Honestly! The producer of these videos should find something more productive to do rather than spending lots of time filming areas and then making his own comments which are useless to the public. By associating crime, drugs, fly tipping and poverty with specific races of people leads to racial hatred. The local authorities, police forces and residents are well aware of their surroundings. Issues and problems faced by towns and cities have always existed. One should not rely on a video like this to understand an area. Not all places shall look like the grounds of Balmoral Castle. UK Explored videos are boring and monotonous having seen a few. This video shows the producer is judgemental by suggesting whoever lives there is responsible for how the area appears.

[@princess0-0-7]

Belgrave is the worst

[@prometheus160]

agree with that

[@daddymulk]

Only place ive had my cars broken into multiple times was when parked in Braunstone

[@drunkenduckjukebox7375]

Do u walk around there with your eyes closed?

[@mikehunt2040]

Top 5 worst for me is Highfields St Matthews Spinney Hill New Foundpool New Parks Most have 1 thing in common 🤔 But most estates could be on the list, Braunstone, Beaumont Leys, Mowacre Hill, Belgrave, Northfields, Thurby Lodge, Netherhall, Rowlatts Hill, Eyres Monsell etc

[@neilneilorangepeel]

Let’s be honest none are that bad, I grew up mowmacre hill, lived new parks and now monsell. Don’t feel remotely bothered about any area really.

[@scruffyalice-ff5pz]

Crazy to think that all those places used to be good places to live, for the lost part anyway. All changed since about 1997 and Blairs government started to change the demographics.

[@vladdtheinhaler]

For me Northfields was the worst place when I was growing up - couldn’t go near there without getting caught up in a scrap.

[@patienceRachel]

What do they have in common ?

[@philipmulligan4325]

@@patienceRachel Labour Council and yeah Muuslims.

[@baggie_woodman]

I grew up in Leicester and recently went back with my son to take him to a show. My word it was rough around the edges when I was a kid but what a shit hole!!! Absolutely lost.

[@eightiesmusic1984]

Explain.

[@alanbaines9865]

I cannot believe Highfields didn't make this list!! I think you should visit the area of Page Hall in Sheffield, which certainly would make good viewing.

[@farallimacha]

I lived in Highfield for several years and my only complaint would be the general lack of cleanliness and greenery. Apart from that the place is very quiet and I didn't see much criminal activity there.

[@PungentBunda]

And Beaumont leys

[@nasstak3440]

@@farallimachayea Highfields isn’t dangerous by any means. Could walk thorough it at night with little worry.

[@moze2324]

Highfield isn't dangerous, it's pretty clean I would say and low crime rate

[@ashwhooooo]

​@@moze2324aha highfields full of crack dens prostitutes and pimps shitty housing and run down shops generally a dump

[@itsjustspecial3231]

I was born in Leicester in the 1940s. With a small exception or two it wasn't a bad place as I recall. But there was a rapid decline. When we married we got out into the county and almost never go back. Thanks for your trouble making the video - interesting but not unexpected.

[@tommykarate9397]

Yeah, in 60 years it's gone from 99% white to 33% white, it's not rapid decline, it's ethnic cleansing!

[@darren253]

Labour cannot run cities lived in two of them and both dumps.

[@darren253]

@@tommykarate9397 Narborough Road has the most White people have seen. The rest well you look out of place.

[@CarlTebbutt]

​@@darren253Most of the city centre and East Leicester I would agree but then again if people go looking for trouble they kind of deserve to.

[@upsidedownnoise]

Why does it bother you that people who live in Leicester are not all white?

[@mm3nrx]

I used to live in Lesta, a rough rough city but a lot of genuine people. Back in the 80's and early 90's it was bad. Loved the city and still do. I remember Braunstone being run down but the people rallied around each other with that old British war time sentiment. I wrote this before I seen the video.

[@NYCSubwayWorker]

@mm3nrx Used to be safer than Nottingham but it has gone the other way now

[@eightiesmusic1984]

I lived there 1988-1991 and 1992-1993. It was not bad at all.

[@Socialistcheese111]

@@mm3nrx I would have personally taken Braunstone out and put in Beumont Lays or Evingdon. Braunstone used to be awful in the 1990s and early 2000s but these days is far, far better.

[@28mouse85]

Leicester isnt and never has heen a rough city.

[@Socialistcheese111]

@@28mouse85 Are you sure about that? Its had 5 fatal stabbings in the past month

[@whitefield4]

Thanks for posting your latest Video I really Enjoy watching them. I am a Ex-pat from Manchester and if you ever get up there. You might want to explore Whitefield which is part of Bury. I moved to Canada in 1978 and seeing how the situation is In England these days saddens me. But your doing a great Job in filming and Narration keep up the great work.😊

[@ukexplored]

Thanks, that’s super kind of you to say. I’ll certainly check out Whitefield when I go to up that way. Would be interesting to see how its changed since you knew it, I bet. I love Canada. 🇨🇦 can’t fault your decision there 😀😀

[@VILL4IN-1]

@@ukexploredYou want to check out Cheetham Hill which is next to Whitefield. I’m sure you will be in for a surprise!

[@oldnews829]

Whitefield is fine, never heard of much happening there at all. Most crime occurs between people who know each other e.g. Scummers, not random.

[@thebrowns1017]

I think you missed a few such as Highfields and the New Parks Estate. By the way it is pronounced "Brawn Stun" not "Brawn Stone" you almost made it sound posh...!!!

[@ukexplored]

I’ve heard of Highfields, so it must be bad. But I stuck to published stats - for what they’re worth, the stats never look accurate, do they. The further north I go the more my accent gives me away 😂 thanks for pointing that out though.

[@user-ds8gf3ki2g]

Highfields is no where near as bad as it was 20 years ago the reputation it had is gone

[@robertyates9745]

2 sides to Braunstone...posh Texas ..scummy Dodge .

[@DrExpresso]

I live in Leicester, surprised new parks wasn't number 1.

[@ukexplored]

I can’t see New Parks listed on crime rate.co.uk so it’s either grouped into a ward, or missing for some other reason. People who live in areas always know the real worst spots, so I’ll take your word on it being bad; and often the worst areas don’t report a lot of crime which skews the stats.

[@AndrewSvonja]

i was thinking that...

[@bobosborne1573]

And I’ll bet my left nut you always vote Labour lo

[@jamesharris2305]

New parks link newfound right and fose

[@Hold_My_Pocket]

When you spotted a roofing company that was doing well for itself in Newfound Pool, the council estate you can see across the street is the start of new parks.

[@DW-indeed]

Heyyy...Aylestone does (or did) have a relatively upmarket bit between the two gigantic council estates 😉

[@paulgee6111]

Yeah Aylestone is lovely compared to some spots. I think the stats don't really reflect the actual picture. I live in Highfields which didn't get a look in. Highfields has some beautiful spots but unfortunately I can remember at least seven stabbings within a couple of hundred yards of my front door, also two rapes, two honour killings and numerous burglaries within the last few years. The streets are strewn with food, litter and human and animal excreta, broken infrastructure is everywhere. Tramps, winos and crackheads hang around the ramshackle shops. I didn't see anything like this in the video apart from a bit of rubbish.

[@adamdean988]

Whats the 2 estate

[@DW-indeed]

@@adamdean988 monsell and saff

[@Patricki8bs]

You could do that vlog just about any city in Britain it's the same in most places.😞🌹

[@darren253]

All Labour Cities are dumps. No offence waste money and no improvements.

[@Lovemy911]

Where do you get your info from??? Saying st matthews is 90% white 😂 ( 95% non white is correct ) Its a hellhole now as it always has been Somewhere between Mogadishu & lahore Go check it out 😂

[@ashh2530]

I honestly think st matthews isn't that bad😅 (I would know i live here)

[@SRC-Kacaan]

St matthews got cleaned up by those immigrants. In the 80s and 90s when it was majority white, there were prostitutes on every street getting fd in flats. Flats also had shit and piss everywhere and almost always would be waking up to a yt person blacked out on the street when going to school. Rough times but thankfully immigration cleaned the area up!

[@andrewwaldron3667]

I think st Mathews is twinned with Mogadishu these days. However my grandparents and uncles lived there in the 60s and 70s and it was very different then. I remember it as being pretty decent. I worked across the road in 81 and would go over there for my lunch break. Would regularly call in at the carnival, and the Dixie on my way into town.

[@juliuspleasaince202]

Yeh man said the carnival haha you probably bumped in to my brothers in there

[@davesmith6680]

St Matthews is now mainly Somalian and very family orientated. Improved since the 80's when it was rough

[@suetownsend5373]

I would say that Aylestone was actually Eyres Monsell

[@mattdriver1]

Agree. And the property prices are not really a true reflection of the exact deprived areas as the monsell, braunstone and Aylestone have houses that are into the millions hence driving up the average. Not really a true reflection on Leicester, although yes there are deprived areas like every city.

[@SuzyDann-zu3lk]

Aylestone isn’t bad, saffron lane and eyes monsell are!

[@mattdriver1]

@@SuzyDann-zu3lk never said it was, the guy doing the video got the Monesell and Aylestone muddled up. Clearly not from leicester!!!

[@ProfessorM-he9rl]

Great post, thank you. How can house prices be so high in these areas?

[@nasstak3440]

Because despite these being the roughest areas of Leicester, they are less intimidating than most of the safe areas of other big cities. Even the drug references are mostly weed, not the hard stuff.

[@NYCSubwayWorker]

house prices are high because it is close (just over an hour train) to london, simply

[@alantheskinhead]

This is utter tripe. I am Leicester born and lived in Thurnby for 35 years and Wigston/Aylestone for a while and it was ok. My ex lived on St Mathews for years and they had no problems. I know people who live on Maidstone Rd and they are happy! It's no worse than any other city. I still have a house in Wigston and there is nothing special about that place either. If you look for trouble, you'll find it. I also know people on Gallards Hill and Hand Avenue that are just normal people trying to make a living on next to nothing. Most of the run down estates still have a sense of community and you don't see them crapping on their own doorsteps. I live in North London now and trust me, that is a lot worse with major drugs and guns, often open on the streets. I never felt unsafe anywhere in Leicester even around St Maths and Marks. It's a bit disingenuous to say that about estates without actually meeting the people. I intend to retire back to Leicester, it ain't that bad.

[@Geoffbrower007]

@@alantheskinhead The producer of these videos is wasting everyone's time, he foolishly films piles of rubbish and attributes this to the races of people who reside in those areas, any person could be fly tipping, not necessarily the residents of the estate itself, I've seen many of the responses from people who know Leicester like you and I, they too have noticed that this producer has carried out a poor assessment of the city and he doesn't know what he's doing, I think the producer should do something more productive like get a job where you are actually helping in some way instead of travelling around England and making silly videos, posting them on here and he thinks he's done a marvelous job 🤣🤣the local authorities, communities, police, schools and all agencies of Leicester know the city inside and out, we don't need a time waster called UK Explored making a video which is nothing but rubbish 🤨🧐

[@markknight1011]

Do you think this was a set up, and the film makers put all the fly tipping there ? lol

[@elephantwanderer6576]

Good luck with that!!😃😃💯💯

[@elegantblue19]

You must be smokin crk because leicester is straight Hot Trash the council has let the whole city down they rob their residents and cater to inly one race the Asians. I dont blame the Asian as if its on offer shhhhhii might aswell take the opportunity and grow 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@marypoppins7]

Was ok

[@matthew6994]

seems a bit out of place to see a 95K electric PORSCHE TAYCAN 4S 93KWH on that estate 1:00

[@suesmith6679]

You ought to go along East Park Road, it’s like Beirut! You wouldn’t believe you’re in England. It frightened us driving along there at lunchtime not so long ago. I said to my husband “Make sure the doors are locked!” Peter Soulsby, the City Mayor ought to spend some money on clearing up these areas, but he likes to build paved areas all over the city centre instead!

[@ummesawdah]

You sound so narrow minded, fully brainwashed by the fear mongering media... what you scared of? lol the most scariest thing anyone would do is offer you a cuppa tea and a pakora 👻 try it xx

[@keekey1129]

Not much to be scared of down there apart from the rats

[@pudddingpie]

😂😂😂😂

[@BadgerUKvideo]

By the way the stone in Braunstone and Aylestone is pronounced stun not stone. Also, when you talking about Narborough Road, Braunie Gate should have a mention as that's the main drinking area of Westcotes.

[@Mike-e6c4w]

Two years ago I revisited Wigston where I lived for 6 months in 2007 as I originally went to Leicester to see the 2022 Grand Prix of darts and I couldn't believe what a boring place it has become.At one point I thought I was in the wrong location and I was only there about an hour.It's just supermarkets, charity shops,betting shops and there were 3 Greggs on one street.I was so bored I just had a quick pint in the Duke of Wigston and that was mainly full of chavs and all the other pubs there was closed down.

[@PaulineNapleton]

I live in Wigston, where is the pub the Duke of Wigston, never heard of it.

[@Mike-e6c4w]

@@PaulineNapleton Sorry I meant the William Wygston pub.I lived in Wygston back in 2007 and I enjoyed it back then but when I went to revisit it in 2022 I couldn't believe how different and run down it looked.The Leicester City centre wasn't much better either but that's probably because of multiculturalism.

[@PaulineNapleton]

@user-di1qc4gz3k you're not wrong, about wigston, gone downhill over the years. It's all mens hairdressers, nail bars and charity shops.

[@likeitis9605]

Thank you very much for this video. It's very sad that this is happening in England, such a beautiful country.

[@albuxtoni]

Narborough Road used to be brilliant, since the students moved away to their new tower blocks it lost all its character and became rougher. Aylestone isn't rough, you've got that wrong, the bits either side of it are, the Saff and the Monsell. But they're still quite quiet really. Braunstone has had its reputation for decades though. St Matthews and Highfields are places I wouldn't like to spend long in, as someone who has lived in Leicester most his life. Interesting video tho, fair play.

[@vladdtheinhaler]

The Aylestone village bit with The Black Horse is lovely too.

[@Silentghos]

Got mugged in Westcotes few weeks ago. Last few years seems to be getting rougher that’s for sure. Thanks for making the video man

[@footballfanar9717]

Everywhere's getting rougher. What do you expect with immigration numbers increasing?

[@Silentghos]

@@footballfanar9717 yes sadly so true and yes the 2 people whom mugged had broken up English and strong accent from abroad. I would have tried to stand up for my self but I thought what if they carrying

[@footballfanar9717]

@@Silentghos Import the third world, become the third world. Thank you tories and labour. Absolutely useless. None of them two parties should be able to stand at the next election for what they've done to this country.

[@balance3201]

​@@Silentghosdaytime? Or night?

[@Silentghos]

@@balance3201 it was like 6pm on a Sunday so pretty quiet not many people around.

[@drunkenmaster6434]

I used to live in South Wigston in the early 2000s (back then it was seen as a posh area) which was just below Aylestone/ Saffron Lane/ Eyres Monsell. Brother lived on Grace Road. Also had friends in Highfields (the red light district), St Mathews, Beaumont leys and Belgrave. Although, its a very clicky clicky city, i never felt unsafe.

[@jenniferreeves181]

@drunkenmaster6434 I was born in south wigston

[@brothersman524]

I was a former student in Leicester, lived and worked there. And yes it is depressing, ugly and horrible - extremely disgusting city and I thought Birmingham was bad enough. Highfields is another unpleasant area as well that should have been added.as well as Beaumont Leys

[@darren253]

Agree got mugged twice living there. City is unsavable.

[@brothersman524]

@@darren253 Oh dear. One of the worst cities in the UK along with Birmingham and Bradford. Worst towns has to be Oldham, Luton, Slough and Rochdale

[@allanstack7016]

They all have a common denominator 😮

[@brothersman524]

@@allanstack7016 I think I know exactly what you mean

[@sammiehall4415]

humberstone to isnt nice

[@stevejones1972]

It surprises me that Beaumont Leys is not on that list - I used to have a mate that lived off Heacham Drive, in Beaumont Leys some years ago, and I used to hate having to visit there or leave my car outside his flats, the area was seriously rough back then, and I am surprised also that it wasnt high up the list for the roughest places in Leicester. I agree about Braunstone though, that place was well renowned for trouble and you wouldnt want to walk round those streets there after dark alone. I live in Stoke on Trent myself - A very deprived and troubled city blighted with drugs, crime and poverty - maybe you could try coming and doing a report on it - Renowned areas here are Meir, Abbey Hulton, Chell Heath / Fegg Hayes, Bentilee, Tunstall, Shelton and Hanley - they are all well worth a visit.

[@markrainton9466]

Yust put a post up earlier couldn't remember about Beaumont leys a shite hole

[@engx3733]

I was born here, Beaumont Leys. Any reason why it didn't make the list?

[@ukexplored]

Hey man. I stuck with published stats, and according to crime stats Beaumont Leys has a crime rate of 103 and is ranked around #13.

[@msimms-lp5qw]

@@ukexplored All that shows is how misleading they can be

[@stewartmercer19]

@@ukexplored 73.459 % of statistics are wrong,

[@LIVERNIL723]

There's almost a uniform whereever you go of the same shop units occupying our amenities: Vape Shops-Barbers-Food Takeaways-Discount Stores-Nail/Beauty 'Parlours'. They really spoil the aesthetics. How on earth are they able to afford business rates and corporation tax?

[@stewartmercer19]

Money Laundering by the Eastern Europeans.

[@harryflash5202]

As someone born in Leicester over sixty years ago, now living abroad, I remember Leicester had a reputation of being a very clean town and Braunston being solidly middle-class. What happened?

[@footballfanar9717]

Immigration. Islam.

[@SRC-Kacaan]

@@footballfanar9717all the poor ppl in those areas are the yt ppl. Has nothing to do with islam. Majority of the economy is being held together by the immigrants anyways. It would be less relevant than corby rn if that was the case

[@sandeepk4093]

I remember in the 90s Leicester was a dump - the city centre was rundown and every back alley had a stench of urine. Braunstone was a rough rundown area that any brown skinned guy avoided if he had any sense. The city seemed to get cleaner during the 2000s but took a nosedive in the 2010s and is now a bit of a dump again. Town centre is horrible again

[@wricham]

@@sandeepk4093town centre is awful and scary due to druggy’s and robbing scumbags!

[@GhxstfishKillah]

i’ve lived in 4/5 of the places in this video 😭 you missed out New Parks though, right next to Fosse and probably much worse

[@SG-ve7zz]

and beaumont leys!!

[@electronicearnings]

I think you should have some "at night" footage where you capture some of these areas at night. Also what about doing a patreon for some "uncensored footage" ?

[@roflcapterzzzy6]

It has changed a lot, there was a time where Braunstone especially dodge (court crescent side) was far far worse it had a fair amount of regeneration after the early 2000s. It has really nice parts and you could honestly consider it three main areas (braunstone, braunstone town, dodge) Honestly never really considered Westcoates / Narborough road that bad some parts of it are really nice but I think some parts have gone really far down in the last 15 years. Newparks / Highfields / Mowmacre Hill / Beautmont Leys / Eyres Monsell are the notable exceptions.

[@farallimacha]

I lived in Leicester for many years and always thought that it is a bad place, but I changed my mind when I moved to Stoke-on-Trent. At least Leicester has some nice parks and areas such as Hamilton, Wigston,Knighton are actually quite nice. City centre is vibrant, with good restaurants and cafes.

[@missruzl14]

How do you guys live in stoke? When for a friend's wedding and I was speechless! The dirtiest city I've ever been to.

[@eightiesmusic1984]

I lived in Knighton at College Hall when I was at university in 1988.

[@nataliebocking838]

I was born in Leicester in 1980, we lived on Braunstone Avenue from 1980 to 1994 and it was always very quiet, maybe it was due to us living only a stones throw from the police station, but I wandered all over the town as youngster and there was never any problems. So sad to see how it has deteriorated since the mid 1990s.

[@hannahc2102]

Yes to St Matthew’s, but all the rest had my husband and I who have lived in or around Leicester since 1987 and 1995 going “Yer what?” Visit Highfields, Eyres Monsell or the UKIP stronghold of New Parks, then tell me Aylestone is rough!

[@prodraught]

I cannot believe that Mowacre Hill, New Parks, Saffron Lane or most seriously Highfields did not make this list. As a Leicester resident all my life Newfoundpool is basically the naughty cousin of these places i have mentioned. I once got told by a friend in the police that if they got a 999 in Prebend street (Highfields), they would never attend without firearms support, at least 3 units and a screen protected van....

[@tuco1099]

When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s Highfields and Northfields were the two notorious areas. Eyres Monsell was also bad. Never thought of Aylestone or Westcotes as being bad back then

[@s125h3]

True...Westcotes and Aylestone were considered 'posher areas'

[@koko2bware]

What are the councils doing? What happened to all those millions collected in taxes ?

[@maxvandenoort8690]

Lived on or just off narborough road for 4 years and loved it, crime only finds you if you find it. Drugs were an issue in the local area but you wouldn’t get much contact unless you were trying to buy or sell. Late nights were fine walking home. We had a run of crimes of taking students to cash points and emptying the accounts but that was the most major. No worse than any other city. The food and culture is amazing and worth a visit

[@GrahamMacdonald-w9o]

Like other big cities, Leicester has its affluent areas as well (Stoneygate, Knighton, Clarendon Park or Western Park). However, it must be said that a lot of wealthier people have moved outside the city boundary over the decades to Glenfield, Birstall, Oadby, Leicester Forest East and so on, leaving the poorer people in some of the post-war council estates like New Parks, Saffron Lane, Eyres Monsell, Beaumont Leys and Stocking Farm. Add in the late Victorian terraced houses in Westcotes, Newfoundpool, Spinney Hills or the streets off Humberstone Road and you have a massive housing stock that was back then probably a big step up from the overcrowded slums its first residents left behind but are now places people find that they have to live due to financial restrictions rather than because they particularly want to live there.

[@theabandonedhunter3604]

Another absolutely wicked video mate! Really enjoyed it as always. Are you still doing Worcester as some point? Saddlers Walk, Areas of Warndon / Tollidine and The Westlands in Droitwich Spa are worth a walk around…. All the best. …Smithy

[@markstill515]

The housing is adequate if they were knocked down it would never be fully replaced and the prices would treble to rent. It’s not the housing is the problem it’s the low pay and deliberate lack of work to make the working classes competitive

[@CarlTebbutt]

Agreed pay across most industries in Leicester are poor compared to national average.

[@Treviscoe]

@@CarlTebbutt Hi Carl, Agreed (I used to live in the city some years ago) but how do you solve it though? Leicester made its money in manufacturing and a lot of that is in clothes; nowadays though, people want to buy cheap clothes and are used to being able to do so. If they can't get them made here they'll buy them made in China where wages are very low. The choice unfortunately is between low paid jobs or none at all. What might work is putting a tariff on clothes made cheaply abroad, so it would be more competitive to buy clothes made here at a higher cost (as we used to). I don't know if people would vote for that though because it would mean clothes would become more expensive..

[@theabandonedhunter3604]

Yes will watch this with a beer later on!!!

[@ukexplored]

Legend.

[@fayeroyley6147]

Unforunately Leicester is a highly socially deprived City and there is a lot of poverty. Its all classed as so, except Stoneygate, Knighton and Western Park. Unfortunately the powers that be spend more money on city centre vanity projects than the people and the areas they live in.

[@polidori99]

I'm moving to Leicester from the South West and I have walked along Narborough Rd late at night and down towards St. Mathews and as a single woman I have felt less safe in the town down here than in Leicester. Obviously it has its probs but so does even the gentrified areas in the West country like Bath and Salisbury!

[@hooper-highlights-uk]

Once youve lived here for 6 months you will realise how horrible it is

[@chrish3472]

Good luck with that, why would anyone want to come here from the South West, it's the other way round for me, i would love to get out of this cess pit and move down to the South West.

[@polidori99]

@@chrish3472 Try cultural desert no medical facilities, no dentist, crap travel infrastructure ie no buses, rubbish train connections no decent restaurants!

[@griswald7156]

@@polidori99 where do you live ?

[@nasstak3440]

Agreed.

[@Englishsea24]

You can round 5 down to 1 by saying the entire place is shite 😂

[@ukexplored]

I’ll stay impartial for journalistic integrity 😂

[@samual3006]

​@ukexplored I've seen alot worse than Leicester it's not that bad really

[@planken203]

@@samual3006 its quite bad

[@user-ds8gf3ki2g]

@@planken203really isn’t in comparison to other cities

[@Bingo-zd1gp]

You should see how bad places are in the West Midlands West Bromwich is one of the most dangerous places to visit 👍

[@MrBillRizer]

I grew up in Thornton Heath and Croydon and I moved to Leicester 2 years ago and I absolutely love it. Lovely people, loads of great countryside and parks, and no fear at all walking home late at night. Also, community; my neighbours all around me say hello. You want beef, you'll get it, you want peace, you'll find it.

[@benjamintuitt1320]

Interesting video I'm actually surprised by some of the area's on the list, and the ones missing off the list, out of curiosity what are all of the factors you decided on for a area to make the list

[@martinsoanes3007]

You didn’t visit Braunstone town, you visited the Hockley Farm estate, and most of what was shown of Aylestone was either Eyres Monsell or Safron lane estates !

[@Ann65.]

Thanks for interesting tour!

[@Bille994]

Westcotes is a mixed bag in my opinion. Parts are insanely deprived but there are small pockets that are actually quite affluent and leafy. Narborough Road is vibrant and full of great food options, doesn't usually feel unsafe whenever I'm there. Just a bit busy and chaotic. New Parks and Eyres Monsell should probably be on this list

[@Skin-ve2tt]

Lived in Leicester all my life. Don't know how Aylestone made this list, it was the Eyres Monsell estate shown on the video which just about overlaps the Aylestone boundary. Saying that, the Monsell's not a bad area either. Leicester's like everywhere else, good & bad areas. It's the people that matter & Leicester folk are the best!

[@BadgerUKvideo]

That's mad. I would never have thought of Westcotes as dangerous. Lived all over Westcotes for about 15 years. Move there from Rugby and it seemed significantly safer.

[@oakincornwall]

Braunstone: The area shown on your map was Braunstone Town - reasonable housing, low crime. The area you filmed was Braunstone Park - not so good housing (don't know about crime)

[@elliotspencer2648]

I used to live in Leicester years ago in the newfoundpool area, I recently moved back to Leicester last year (Victoria Park area) and I love it here. I moved from the city of Bristol, now that has even worse areas than Leicester!!.

[@AndrewSvonja]

i seem to remember in the 90's when i went there as a van driver Knowle was a bit suspect, in fact the shop I was setting up video racks in said there was a curfew for the paperboys/girls had to be daylight to daylight!!

[@elliotspencer2648]

@@AndrewSvonja in Bristol there are the bad areas of Knowle west, hartcliffe, St. Paul's, Stapleton, south mead. I was glad to see the back of Bristol when I left in July of last year, I would never go back there to live!.

[@2tapped-sc1oq]

​@@elliotspencer2648Easton and Hartcliffe make the worst areas of Leicester look like heaven!

[@sbaby-kg8hn]

Bristol is a rot ​hole@@elliotspencer2648

[@Legionnaire7777]

I'm originally from Newfoundpool! 👍🏻

[@thecrypto5340]

Well I live in Loughborough and I come to Leicester regularly. So can’t say if it’s dangerous to be honest with you mate. I have not seen anything dangerous in Leicester especially near St Matthews where you know there is also a female ex workers working in the street at night time. Also stabbing a in Leicester doesn’t happen a lot most likely every now and then unfortunately.

[@Treviscoe]

I enjoy your videos because although you visit some depressing areas you always describe them sensitively. There are some very nice places in Leicester too; when I was a student there I lived on the Ratcliffe Road in Stoneygate and house prices in that area are typically £400,000 and up (with some going for over a million, especially near the border with Oadby).

[@lightningrt434]

Braunstone is pronounced “Braunstun”. Aylestone is quite posh too. Obvs stats can say a lot. You didn’t mention Beaumont Leys or Northfields or the Saff.

[@Spartacus45]

Braunstone is divided by Leicester City Council and Braunstone Town Blaby District Council. I live in Braunstone Town and theres nothing wrong there. My partner lives in Westcoates/ Fosse Road South and its not great. Lots of drugs, prostitution and fly tipping central. I was in the army for 12 years and based in Windsor/London and when i returned to Leicester in 2000 I was astounded how crap it had got to be honest.

[@markgoss9150]

Funnily enough I live on fosse south and it's getting worse and worse I'm trying to escape 🤣

[@tomtomthebear]

Beaumont leys was rough as toast when I was a lad.,!! Had a few questionable moments at mowmacre hill as well but not sure it was the whole area or just one housing estate..!!

[@MrThom89]

Lived in Newfoundpool (pretty much where you did a lot of the filming 😁) for 4 years until very recently, never had an issue really! Great vid

[@jenniferreeves181]

It's full.of polish and Lithuanians

[@DrExpresso]

Whats the background song?

[@ukexplored]

I used a few. It’s all royalty free stuff, you like the chill lofi vibes?

[@MrMooooole]

I'm quite posh for a Leicester-born but felt propa workin' class when I went Uni in Birmingham. Never been mugged in Leicester despite doing plenty of stupid journeys but got mugged twice during my time at Birmingham Uni.

[@bangerbangerbro]

I've been living in Leicester for the past couple of years as a student. Last year I was in Westcotes. I didn't really like it but I got used to it. I never really felt comfortable going out, though I did find the abandoned railway architecture quite cool. The outdoor gym by bede park would always be full of delinquent types just hanging around trying to look hard or whatever. Bede park itself was normally being used for sports and stuff by people there though which was good. It also has a strange children's play park with a climbing frame thing that seems like it was sized for adults. I haven't been around Aylestone much but I always enjoyed a walk or cycle around Aylestone meadows. I haven't been much around Newfoundpool (in your video description you labelled it "newfoundland") but I have travelled through it and thought it seemed a bit dodgy. I've never been to st matthews. I have walked through Braunstone once on the way to the Vue cinema with friends and thought it was quite nice in the daytime, I guess I was just enjoying myself at the time.

[@judybowers2987]

Oh and just one more thing.... If you're just going to look at these estates and run down areas of course it's going to look shitty, this does not show the whole of Leicester, they're are some beautiful places and areas. I'm very upset about your depiction of my great city.

[@times7171]

You are incorrect. St Matthews - they are mainly 2 storey maisonettes.

[@camillabrice]

Eh up me duck, I was born in Leicester, work there, and while I don't live there, I feel I must speak up for it. Sure, there are crap areas like any city, but you have made it seem like the Bronx or Johannesburg. We are a small city with a multi cultural and interesting demographic. Belgrave and Melton Roads are wonderful for Indian food, Evington has some lovely deli's, around St Martin's square is great at night with restaurants and bars and the Lanes has some fab independent shops. There are good and crap places in every city; London has plenty of dodgy areas, so why not focus on the good?

[@peterlowe6064]

How come Highfields never got a mention?

[@sniffrat3646]

Newfoundpool is great. I've lived here for years and the people are lovely. Recently I've noticed a lot of fly-tipping though ..... old mattresses, settees, broken furniture etc which ain't good. Terraced houses not posh enough for you? You know you're in a large city, right? There's nothing to do here apart from the Working Men's Club (lots of older folks having a drink and a laugh out the front) but that's one of the advantages...no street gangs. In fact you could hear a pin drop where I live. Peace and quiet day and night. If you want stuff to do then It's a 20 min walk into town. Decent place

[@leem4966]

Aylestone isn't actually that bad at all. The neighbouring Saffron Lane and Eyres Monsell estates are much worse.

[@fenpikey]

I lived in Leicester from 2008 - 2014 and never had a problem, lovely place. Resided in Spinney Hills, Highfields near to Viccy Park, city centre & Aylestone Road. Moved to the Suffolk coast. The only blot on Suffolks landscape is the delightful swirling cesspit of filth called Ipswich that has all the charm of a sewage works on hot summers day.

[@thehauntedwitch1313]

That wasn't Braunstone. That was Braunstone town. That's why it didn't look as bad 😔 Also, Fosse Road Central isnt WestCotes. Its west end or going by its older name, Danes Hill. Since 2010 the city as become more dirty and deprived year on year.

[@bigprob8744]

Looks nice Compared to the rough areas in Coventry

[@wricham]

None of that was Braunstone Town. Braunstone town is county council side and braunstone is city council. The Braunstone Lane splits the two until you get to the top at the cross roads and then that’s LFE.

[@ashwhooooo]

Boggy fleas aka Beaumont leys , eyres monsell , saffron , highfields, nothfields spinny Hill, rowletts Hill, all need a mention

[@tomhurley6143]

Really surprised highfields or spinney hill wasnt on there

[@slr19680]

I'm not ,a lot of the comments are from people that don't live in the areas mentioned

[@coolbreez773]

No mention of Highfields?

[@charlottevictoria.hubbard7472]

What about Stocking Farm and Northfields.

[@mcmeemo1]

I've lived in Branstone and would say it is dangerous if you aren't known there. I found that if you are known it's fine. They just don't like people they don't know. Met some of the best people I know from there. Shocked northfields didn't come up, lived there aswell. Again met some lovely people there too. I would say with these places is that it's If you don't understand them don't bother entering them. Have repeat for where you are. A bit like water lol

[@keving331]

The St Matthew’s area seems to be unusually lacking in discarded sofas in front of the flats, and I think I only saw one Argos kiddies’ trampoline outside one block. Many of the flats don’t seem to have the chavs’ and thugs’ trademark illuminated Reindeer or Santa Claus (usually stolen from Wilko) up on the porch roof or nailed to the pebble-dash, and I’m sure I saw a couple of local residents who were not clad in the finest haute couture from Matalan and Primark (originally nicked from the stores, and then sold on half-price from the stall inside the local ‘Spoons).

[@sandeepk4093]

Anecdotally its residents seem majority Somalian

[@Contraband0o-w7x]

It’s a pretty safe area and very quiet

[@forbiddenracer2056]

That was not Aylestone that was mostly Eyres Monsell, do your research.

[@Stu-Smith]

If you think Aylestone is one of top 5 worst areas to live in Leicester, you clearly know nothing about Leicester. Try Highfields, new parks and Beaumont leys.

[@kenstevens5065]

I worked in the city centre for five years back in the 70's. Nothing seems to have changed.

[@gunner4lifeng]

St Mathew's is 95% Somalian not white braunstone isn't that bad it has its problems like every council estate. I've lived there for 20 yrs . But it all depends on who you are and who knows you . I drive and walk around all the estates day and night with no problems at all . Maybe a nitty begging for a quid 😂

[@eze8933]

As somebody who grew up in Leicester and has gone back. 1) Highfields (going back here hit me hard, it felt like a developing country) 2) St Matthews (there is no way there is that many white people, maybe 30 years ago and most of the white people there now are prob Eastern European) 3) New Parks 4) Braunstone Estate 5) Beaumont Leys

[@lindayoung1152]

How are they so poor with that amount of cars parked in the streets?

[@s125h3]

Point lol😂👍

[@lindayoung1152]

@@s125h3 if you don't know I can't tell you.

[@raphstarr8337]

More or less all of this is not Aylestone it was glenhills boulevard plus more

[@Xsofclarke]

I currently live in westcotes after moving to Leicester for University and ended up staying here with my boyfriend… I CANT WAIT TO MOVE HOME. We have a homeless man that lives under our stair case in our block and outside our window is a little dark corner and is obviously a hot spot for dealers and people shooting up, especially now the pub opposite has closed. Security changed our locks one day while we were at work due to a kidnap so we had to drive to their office to get new keys. We’re more on the back of Narborough road though so 🥳

[@thecarguy10054]

Why is property so expensive in Leicester, some one please explain!

[@anthonyclarke5579]

68 years old and born in Westcotes maternity hospital. I left Leicester in 1981, never to return...I don't miss it.

[@stevet1769]

Both my wife and I were born in Westcotes maternity hospital six months apart . We are nearly in our seventies now.

[@anthonyclarke5579]

@@stevet1769 I think the nurse must have dropped me on my head (I was a fat baby ha!), I liked Leicester as a place to grow up. I moved on as I couldn't find my way in life in Leicester as an adult. I settled in Norway and never looked back. Congratulations on your marriage together, I guess your wife must be a patient woman...I know mine is, although I do have a flat spot on the top of my forehead where she likes to remind me of things ha!😊

[@jonesblorraine]

I’m so surprised newparks wasn’t on the list, there been murders, and there’s always a smell of weed. I don’t go out after dark too scared. My mobility car got damaged and I called the police told them were a couple of the affenders lived, but police said they couldn’t find them.

[@corkandi]

St. Matthews estate is not majority white, it's a Somalian area. And the flats are maisonettes. You're not showing Aylestone - your footage is of Eyres Monsell estate, with a two second clip of shops on Aylestone Road. I've lived in Northfields, Netherhall, Beaumont Leys, De Montfort house flats, Cosby and Aylestone (Never had any problems). Did you go to Mowmacre Hill?

[@wayneholland]

Amazed Beaumont leys, saffron lane, eyres monsell, stocking farm and new parks wasn’t in this. Grew up in New Parks by the way

[@corkandi]

He showed Eyres Monsell and called it Aylestone.