Schools
4 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 1 secondary schools. The Axholme Academy is the nearest published school at 2.3 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DN17 4BP
Axholme Central · North Lincolnshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Scunthorpe
- Ward
- Axholme Central
- Local authority
- North Lincolnshire
- Constituency
- Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme
- Postcode district
- DN17
- Postcode sector
- DN17 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DN17 4BP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DN
- Postcode district
- DN17
- Postcode sector
- DN17 4
- Latitude
- 53.578703
- Longitude
- -0.872997
- British National Grid easting
- 474,717
- British National Grid northing
- 409,711
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- North Lincolnshire · E06000013
- Electoral ward
- Axholme Central · E05015076
- Parish or community
- E04000541
- Westminster constituency
- Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme · E14001199
- Output area
- E00066815
- Lower layer super output area
- North Lincolnshire 020B · E01013242
- Middle layer super output area
- North Lincolnshire 020 · E02002768
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
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Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Dirtness Bridge Farm, The Long Barn, Crowle, Scunthorpe, DN17 4BP | 20 February 2014 | £589,950 |
| Pumping Station House, Crowle, Scunthorpe, DN17 4BP | 30 November 1995 | £28,625 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 4
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 1
- 3.7 km
The Axholme Academy
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- 4.0 km
Crowle Primary Academy
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- 4.2 km
St Norbert's Catholic Voluntary Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Vehicle crime 2
- Shoplifting 1
- Violence and sexual offences 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 12
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- DN17 4 residents
- 6,415
7 female, 5 male
Age bands in DN17 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.2%
994 residents
594 residents
1,332 residents
1,991 residents
1,486 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DN17 4 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+
- 42.9%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 42.9%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 42.9%
- Gigabit-capable
- 42.9%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 14.3%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 28.6%
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.
Nearby transport
- 1.0 miles
Reindeer Inn
BCT · Sandtoft
- 1.0 miles
Reindeer Inn
BCT · Sandtoft
- 1.1 miles
Demand Responsive Area
BCT · Sandtoft
- 2.1 miles
Carrhouse Road
BCT · Westgate
- 2.2 miles
Carrhouse Road
BCT · Westgate
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Lincolnshire 020B, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
23,716 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
- 3
- 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
4 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Vehicle crime with 2 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.