Schools
38 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 6 secondary schools. Coritani Academy is the nearest published school at 619 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DN16 3FS
Ashby Lakeside · North Lincolnshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Scunthorpe
- Ward
- Ashby Lakeside
- Local authority
- North Lincolnshire
- Constituency
- Scunthorpe
- Postcode district
- DN16
- Postcode sector
- DN16 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DN16 3FS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 2006
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DN
- Postcode district
- DN16
- Postcode sector
- DN16 3
- Latitude
- 53.558260
- Longitude
- -0.626766
- British National Grid easting
- 491,063
- British National Grid northing
- 407,723
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- North Lincolnshire · E06000013
- Electoral ward
- Ashby Lakeside · E05015075
- Parish or community
- E43000012
- Westminster constituency
- Scunthorpe · E14001462
- Output area
- E00172845
- Lower layer super output area
- North Lincolnshire 018F · E01033296
- Middle layer super output area
- North Lincolnshire 018 · E02002766
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
Property
11 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 5, Silverbell Close, Scunthorpe, DN16 3FS | 26 January 2018 | £152,000 |
| 3, Silverbell Close, Scunthorpe, DN16 3FS | 24 March 2016 | £130,500 |
| 2, Silverbell Close, Scunthorpe, DN16 3FS | 13 July 2015 | £224,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 38
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 6
- 619 m
Coritani Academy
Academy alternative provision converter
- 781 m
Holme Valley Primary School
Community school
- 843 m
The Grange Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,795
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 715
- Anti social behaviour 183
- Public order 174
- Criminal damage and arson 141
- Shoplifting 138
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 25
- Postcode households
- 8
- Residents per household
- 3.1
- DN16 3 residents
- 15,132
10 female, 15 male
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
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DN16 3 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 100%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
8
within 5 km
CAMBRIDGE AVENUE & MESSINGHAM MC
CAMBRIDGE AVENUE, BOTTESFORD, SCUNTHORPE, DN16 3LG
ODS code B81022
1.7 km
ASHBY TURN PRIMARY CARE PARTNERS
ASHBY THE LINK, SCUNTHORPE, DN16 2UT
ODS code B81045
2.0 km
ANCORA MEDICAL PRACTICE
291 ASHBY ROAD, SCUNTHORPE, DN16 2AB
ODS code B81026
2.4 km
CEDAR MEDICAL PRACTICE
275 ASHBY ROAD, SCUNTHORPE, DN16 2AB
ODS code B81113
2.4 km
THE OSWALD ROAD MEDICAL SURGERY
78 OSWALD ROAD, SCUNTHORPE, DN15 7PG
ODS code B81090
3.8 km
CHURCH LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
1 ORCHID RISE, CHURCH LANE, SCUNTHORPE, DN15 7AN
ODS code B81064
3.8 km
WEST COMMON LANE TEACHING PRACTICE
DORCHESTER ROAD, SCUNTHORPE, DN17 1YH
ODS code B81118
4.1 km
CHERRY TREE MEDICAL PRACTICE
IRONSTONE CENTRE, WEST STREET, SCUNTHORPE, DN15 6HX
ODS code B81617
4.2 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Laurel Way
BCT · Bottesford
- 0.1 miles
Laurel Way
BCT · Bottesford
- 0.1 miles
Wisteria Way
BCT · Bottesford
- 0.1 miles
Wisteria Way
BCT · Bottesford
- 0.2 miles
Pinewood Close
BCT · Bottesford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Lincolnshire 018F, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
20,596 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,795 published events cover 12 months, averaging 149.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 715 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.