Schools
11 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 0 secondary schools. Act Fast NL Ltd is the nearest published school at 1.6 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DN17 3PW
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 3PW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1991
- Postcode area
- DN
- Postcode district
- DN17
- Postcode sector
- DN17 3
- Latitude
- 53.525658
- Longitude
- -0.704198
- British National Grid easting
- 486,000
- British National Grid northing
- 404,000
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
- 11
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 0
- 2.6 km
Act Fast NL Ltd
Other independent special school
- 3.2 km
West Butterwick C of E Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 3.5 km
Messingham Primary School
Community 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 4
- Burglary 1
- Other theft 1
- Public order 1
- Anti social behaviour 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.
Nearby transport
- 1.8 miles
St Andrews Church
BCT · East Butterwick
- 1.9 miles
Old School
BCT · Susworth
- 1.9 miles
Demand Responsive Area
BCT · Susworth
- 1.9 miles
Old School
BCT · Susworth
- 1.9 miles
Village Lane End
BCT · Scotterthorpe
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 4 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.