Schools
42 open schools are in scope, including 23 primary and 7 secondary schools. Oakfield Primary School is the nearest published school at 430 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DN16 3EU
Ashby Central · North Lincolnshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Ashby Central
- Local authority
- North Lincolnshire
- Constituency
- Scunthorpe
- Postcode district
- DN16
- Postcode sector
- DN16 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DN16 3EU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1994
- Terminated
- 1 December 1995
- Postcode area
- DN
- Postcode district
- DN16
- Postcode sector
- DN16 3
- Latitude
- 53.562763
- Longitude
- -0.645690
- British National Grid easting
- 489,800
- British National Grid northing
- 408,200
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- North Lincolnshire · E06000013
- Electoral ward
- Ashby Central · E05015074
- Parish or community
- E43000012
- Westminster constituency
- Scunthorpe · E14001462
- Output area
- E00066784
- Lower layer super output area
- North Lincolnshire 017A · E01013236
- Middle layer super output area
- North Lincolnshire 017 · E02002765
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
- 42
- Primary
- 23
- Secondary
- 7
- 430 m
Oakfield Primary School
Community school
- 432 m
Frederick Gough School
Community school
- 660 m
The Grange Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,490
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,468
- Shoplifting 322
- Criminal damage and arson 308
- Anti social behaviour 282
- Public order 274
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DN16 3 residents
- 15,132
Age bands in DN16 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.9%
2,683 residents
1,511 residents
3,715 residents
3,520 residents
3,026 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
ASHBY TURN PRIMARY CARE PARTNERS
ASHBY THE LINK, SCUNTHORPE, DN16 2UT
ODS code B81045
615 m
CAMBRIDGE AVENUE & MESSINGHAM MC
CAMBRIDGE AVENUE, BOTTESFORD, SCUNTHORPE, DN16 3LG
ODS code B81022
636 m
ANCORA MEDICAL PRACTICE
291 ASHBY ROAD, SCUNTHORPE, DN16 2AB
ODS code B81026
1.1 km
CEDAR MEDICAL PRACTICE
275 ASHBY ROAD, SCUNTHORPE, DN16 2AB
ODS code B81113
1.1 km
CHURCH LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
1 ORCHID RISE, CHURCH LANE, SCUNTHORPE, DN15 7AN
ODS code B81064
2.7 km
WEST COMMON LANE TEACHING PRACTICE
DORCHESTER ROAD, SCUNTHORPE, DN17 1YH
ODS code B81118
2.8 km
THE OSWALD ROAD MEDICAL SURGERY
78 OSWALD ROAD, SCUNTHORPE, DN15 7PG
ODS code B81090
2.9 km
CHERRY TREE MEDICAL PRACTICE
IRONSTONE CENTRE, WEST STREET, SCUNTHORPE, DN15 6HX
ODS code B81617
3.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Bottesford Road
BCT · Ashby
- 0.1 miles
Bottesford Road
BCT · Ashby
- 0.1 miles
Churchfield Road
BCT · Ashby
- 0.1 miles
Churchfield Road
BCT · Ashby
- 0.2 miles
Grange Lane South
BCT · Ashby
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Lincolnshire 017A, 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
15,883 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
3,490 published events cover 12 months, averaging 290.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,468 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.