Schools
23 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 3 secondary schools. Act Fast NL Ltd is the nearest published school at 975 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DN17 3PU
Messingham · North Lincolnshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Messingham
- Local authority
- North Lincolnshire
- Constituency
- Scunthorpe
- Postcode district
- DN17
- Postcode sector
- DN17 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DN17 3PU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1999
- Postcode area
- DN
- Postcode district
- DN17
- Postcode sector
- DN17 3
- Latitude
- 53.531818
- Longitude
- -0.680594
- British National Grid easting
- 487,552
- British National Grid northing
- 404,714
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- North Lincolnshire · E06000013
- Electoral ward
- Messingham · E05015090
- Parish or community
- E04012744
- Westminster constituency
- Scunthorpe · E14001462
- Output area
- E00067255
- Lower layer super output area
- North Lincolnshire 021A · E01013324
- Middle layer super output area
- North Lincolnshire 021 · E02002769
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 DN17
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 23
- Primary
- 14
- Secondary
- 3
- 975 m
Act Fast NL Ltd
Other independent special school
- 2.0 km
Messingham Primary School
Community school
- 2.4 km
South Park Enterprise College (11-19)
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 9
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Criminal damage and arson 3
- Public order 2
- Violence and sexual offences 2
- Burglary 1
- Other theft 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DN17 3 residents
- 7,141
Age bands in DN17 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 27.5%
996 residents
624 residents
1,304 residents
2,179 residents
1,940 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
5
within 5 km straight-line
CAMBRIDGE AVENUE & MESSINGHAM MC
CAMBRIDGE AVENUE, BOTTESFORD, SCUNTHORPE, DN16 3LG
ODS code B81022
3.5 km
ASHBY TURN PRIMARY CARE PARTNERS
ASHBY THE LINK, SCUNTHORPE, DN16 2UT
ODS code B81045
4.1 km
ANCORA MEDICAL PRACTICE
291 ASHBY ROAD, SCUNTHORPE, DN16 2AB
ODS code B81026
4.7 km
CEDAR MEDICAL PRACTICE
275 ASHBY ROAD, SCUNTHORPE, DN16 2AB
ODS code B81113
4.7 km
WEST COMMON LANE TEACHING PRACTICE
DORCHESTER ROAD, SCUNTHORPE, DN17 1YH
ODS code B81118
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 1.1 miles
Northfield Road
BCT · Messingham
- 1.1 miles
Green Tree Inn
BCT · Messingham
- 1.1 miles
Northfield Road
BCT · Messingham
- 1.1 miles
Green Tree Inn
BCT · Messingham
- 1.3 miles
Moorwell Business Park
BCT · Yaddlethorpe
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Lincolnshire 021A, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,438 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
9 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Criminal damage and arson with 3 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.