Schools
41 open schools are in scope, including 22 primary and 7 secondary schools. Rowan Education is the nearest published school at 426 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DN16 2BF
Kingsway with Lincoln Gardens · North Lincolnshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- North Lincolnshire
- Constituency
- Scunthorpe
- Postcode district
- DN16
- Postcode sector
- DN16 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DN16 2BF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1992
- Terminated
- 1 December 1992
- Postcode area
- DN
- Postcode district
- DN16
- Postcode sector
- DN16 2
- Latitude
- 53.573649
- Longitude
- -0.654404
- British National Grid easting
- 489,200
- British National Grid northing
- 409,400
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- North Lincolnshire · E06000013
- Electoral ward
- Kingsway with Lincoln Gardens · E05015089
- Parish or community
- E43000012
- Westminster constituency
- Scunthorpe · E14001462
- Output area
- E00067208
- Lower layer super output area
- North Lincolnshire 014B · E01013317
- Middle layer super output area
- North Lincolnshire 014 · E02002762
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore DN16
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 41
- Primary
- 22
- Secondary
- 7
- 426 m
Rowan Education
Other independent special school
- 491 m
Lincoln Gardens Primary School
Community school
- 660 m
Outwood Junior Academy Brumby
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,835
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,620
- Shoplifting 420
- Criminal damage and arson 317
- Public order 289
- Anti social behaviour 233
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DN16 2 residents
- 8,930
Age bands in DN16 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.7%
1,568 residents
1,008 residents
2,371 residents
2,650 residents
2,108 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
GP practices
8
within 5 km straight-line
ANCORA MEDICAL PRACTICE
291 ASHBY ROAD, SCUNTHORPE, DN16 2AB
ODS code B81026
308 m
CEDAR MEDICAL PRACTICE
275 ASHBY ROAD, SCUNTHORPE, DN16 2AB
ODS code B81113
308 m
ASHBY TURN PRIMARY CARE PARTNERS
ASHBY THE LINK, SCUNTHORPE, DN16 2UT
ODS code B81045
915 m
CHURCH LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
1 ORCHID RISE, CHURCH LANE, SCUNTHORPE, DN15 7AN
ODS code B81064
1.4 km
THE OSWALD ROAD MEDICAL SURGERY
78 OSWALD ROAD, SCUNTHORPE, DN15 7PG
ODS code B81090
1.6 km
CAMBRIDGE AVENUE & MESSINGHAM MC
CAMBRIDGE AVENUE, BOTTESFORD, SCUNTHORPE, DN16 3LG
ODS code B81022
1.7 km
WEST COMMON LANE TEACHING PRACTICE
DORCHESTER ROAD, SCUNTHORPE, DN17 1YH
ODS code B81118
1.9 km
CHERRY TREE MEDICAL PRACTICE
IRONSTONE CENTRE, WEST STREET, SCUNTHORPE, DN15 6HX
ODS code B81617
2.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Hopkins Avenue
BCT · Scunthorpe
- 0.1 miles
Brumby Corner
BCT · Old Brumby
- 0.1 miles
Hopkins Avenue
BCT · Scunthorpe
- 0.1 miles
Brumby Corner
BCT · Old Brumby
- 0.2 miles
West Common Crescent
BCT · Scunthorpe
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Lincolnshire 014B, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
5 of 10
Overall England rank
14,738 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
3,835 published events cover 12 months, averaging 319.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,620 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.