Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 2 secondary schools. Scawby Academy is the nearest published school at 625 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DN20 9BU
Broughton & Scawby · North Lincolnshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Broughton & Scawby
- Local authority
- North Lincolnshire
- Constituency
- Scunthorpe
- Postcode district
- DN20
- Postcode sector
- DN20 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DN20 9BU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1990
- Postcode area
- DN
- Postcode district
- DN20
- Postcode sector
- DN20 9
- Latitude
- 53.536251
- Longitude
- -0.531857
- British National Grid easting
- 497,400
- British National Grid northing
- 405,400
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- North Lincolnshire · E06000013
- Electoral ward
- Broughton & Scawby · E05015082
- Parish or community
- E04000577
- Westminster constituency
- Scunthorpe · E14001462
- Output area
- E00067272
- Lower layer super output area
- North Lincolnshire 022C · E01013325
- Middle layer super output area
- North Lincolnshire 022 · E02002770
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 DN20
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 9
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 2
- 625 m
Scawby Academy
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- 3.0 km
Hibaldstow Academy
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- 3.3 km
Hestia School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 66
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 17
- Other theft 12
- Criminal damage and arson 11
- Shoplifting 6
- Public order 6
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DN20 9 residents
- 6,178
Age bands in DN20 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.7%
828 residents
544 residents
1,179 residents
1,758 residents
1,566 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
HIBALDSTOW MEDICAL PRACTICE
11 CHURCH STREET, HIBALDSTOW, BRIGG, DN20 9ED
ODS code C83033
2.9 km
BRIDGE STREET SURGERY
53 BRIDGE STREET, BRIGG, DN20 8NT
ODS code B81063
3.0 km
RIVERSIDE SURGERY
BARNARD AVENUE, BRIGG, DN20 8AS
ODS code B81109
3.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Mill Lane
BCT · Scawby
- 0.1 miles
Mill Lane
BCT · Scawby
- 0.2 miles
Gainsborough Lane (o/s 33)
BCT · Sturton
- 0.2 miles
Gainsborough Lane (o/s 54)
BCT · Sturton
- 0.4 miles
Sutton Arms
BCT · Scawby
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Lincolnshire 022C, 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
22,820 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
66 published events cover 12 months, averaging 5.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 17 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.