Borrowing estimates for Leicester, built from published survey rates and population figures.
An estimated 251,000 adults in Leicester held at least one credit or loan product in 2024.
Source: Estimate from FCA Financial Lives 2024 and ONS mid-2024 population estimates, Borrowing Data, 2024
Estimate: 84% of adults in the East Midlands held at least one credit or loan product (FCA Financial Lives 2024, adults aged 18 and over) applied to 298,392 adults aged 18 and over in Leicester (ONS mid-2024 population estimates, single-year ages summed).
An estimated 194,000 adults in Leicester held a credit card in 2024.
Source: Estimate from FCA Financial Lives 2024 and ONS mid-2024 population estimates, Borrowing Data, 2024
Estimate: 65% of adults in the East Midlands held a credit card (FCA Financial Lives 2024, adults aged 18 and over) applied to 298,392 adults aged 18 and over in Leicester (ONS mid-2024 population estimates, single-year ages summed).
An estimated 53,700 adults in Leicester were overdrawn on a current account in 2024.
Source: Estimate from FCA Financial Lives 2024 and ONS mid-2024 population estimates, Borrowing Data, 2024
Estimate: 18% of adults in the East Midlands were overdrawn on a current account (FCA Financial Lives 2024, adults aged 18 and over) applied to 298,392 adults aged 18 and over in Leicester (ONS mid-2024 population estimates, single-year ages summed).
An estimated 89,500 adults in Leicester had a residential mortgage in 2024.
Source: Estimate from FCA Financial Lives 2024 and ONS mid-2024 population estimates, Borrowing Data, 2024
Estimate: 30% of adults in the East Midlands had a residential mortgage (FCA Financial Lives 2024, adults aged 18 and over) applied to 298,392 adults aged 18 and over in Leicester (ONS mid-2024 population estimates, single-year ages summed).
An estimated 59,700 adults in Leicester used buy now, pay later credit in 2024.
Source: Estimate from FCA Financial Lives 2024 and ONS mid-2024 population estimates, Borrowing Data, 2024
Estimate: 20% of adults in the East Midlands used buy now, pay later credit (FCA Financial Lives 2024, adults aged 18 and over) applied to 298,392 adults aged 18 and over in Leicester (ONS mid-2024 population estimates, single-year ages summed).
An estimated 18,800 adults in Leicester held high-cost credit in 2024.
Source: Estimate from FCA Financial Lives 2024 and ONS mid-2024 population estimates, Borrowing Data, 2024
Estimate: 6.3% of adults in the East Midlands held high-cost credit (FCA Financial Lives 2024, adults aged 18 and over) applied to 298,392 adults aged 18 and over in Leicester (ONS mid-2024 population estimates, single-year ages summed).
An estimated 68,600 adults in Leicester had low financial resilience in 2024.
Source: Estimate from FCA Financial Lives 2024 and ONS mid-2024 population estimates, Borrowing Data, 2024
Estimate: 23% of adults in the East Midlands had low financial resilience (FCA Financial Lives 2024, adults aged 18 and over) applied to 298,392 adults aged 18 and over in Leicester (ONS mid-2024 population estimates, single-year ages summed).
An estimated 26,900 adults in Leicester were in financial difficulty in 2024.
Source: Estimate from FCA Financial Lives 2024 and ONS mid-2024 population estimates, Borrowing Data, 2024
Estimate: 9% of adults in the East Midlands were in financial difficulty (FCA Financial Lives 2024, adults aged 18 and over) applied to 298,392 adults aged 18 and over in Leicester (ONS mid-2024 population estimates, single-year ages summed).
The estimated population aged 16 and over in Leicester was 306,919 at mid-2025.
Source: Population estimates - local authority based by single year of age (Nomis NM_2002_1), mid-year estimates, Office for National Statistics, 30 June 2025
ONS mid-2025 population estimates (published 29 July 2026 for England and Wales; Scotland and Northern Ireland as carried in the same Nomis table), local authority boundaries as of April 2023, usual residents, as returned by the Nomis 'Aged 16+' category.
An estimated 251,000 adults in Leicester held at least one credit or loan product in 2024. An estimated 194,000 adults in Leicester held a credit card in 2024. An estimated 53,700 adults in Leicester were overdrawn on a current account in 2024.
An estimated 251,000 adults in Leicester held at least one credit or loan product in 2024.
An estimated 194,000 adults in Leicester held a credit card in 2024.
An estimated 53,700 adults in Leicester were overdrawn on a current account in 2024.