Property market
The five-year median is £85,000 from 11 recorded sales in DN21 1DF. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for West Lindsey is £210,732 in June 2026, up 8.9% year on year.
DN21 1DF
Gainsborough South-West · West Lindsey · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Gainsborough
- Local authority
- West Lindsey
- Constituency
- Gainsborough
- Postcode district
- DN21
- Postcode sector
- DN21 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DN21 1DF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DN
- Postcode district
- DN21
- Postcode sector
- DN21 1
- Latitude
- 53.389077
- Longitude
- -0.770495
- British National Grid easting
- 481,867
- British National Grid northing
- 388,728
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- West Lindsey · E07000142
- Electoral ward
- Gainsborough South-West · E05009642
- Parish or community
- E04006081
- Westminster constituency
- Gainsborough · E14001243
- Output area
- E00134037
- Lower layer super output area
- West Lindsey 004D · E01026382
- Middle layer super output area
- West Lindsey 004 · E02005495
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 DN21
Property
50 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 15, Drake Street, Gainsborough, DN21 1DF | 11 May 2026 | £85,000 |
| 45, Drake Street, Gainsborough, DN21 1DF | 30 January 2026 | £64,000 |
| 17, Drake Street, Gainsborough, DN21 1DF | 12 December 2025 | £39,999 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 19
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 2
- 121 m
Benjamin Adlard Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
Warren Wood - A Specialist Academy
Academy special converter
- 1.1 km
St George's Church of England Community Primary School, Gainsborough
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,767
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 950
- Anti social behaviour 456
- Shoplifting 433
- Criminal damage and arson 314
- Public order 143
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 58
- Postcode households
- 25
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- DN21 1 residents
- 13,465
29 female, 29 male
Age bands in DN21 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.3%
2,703 residents
1,526 residents
3,487 residents
3,318 residents
2,306 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DN21 1 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
- 82.1%
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
2
within 5 km
CASKGATE STREET SURGERY
ELSWITHA HALL, 3 CASKGATE STREET, GAINSBOROUGH, DN21 2DJ
ODS code C83044
1.2 km
CLEVELAND SURGERY
VANESSA DRIVE, GAINSBOROUGH, DN21 2UQ
ODS code C83018
2.6 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Washington Street
BCT · Gainsborough
- 0.1 miles
Drake Street
BCT · Gainsborough
- 0.1 miles
Drake Street
BCT · Gainsborough
- 0.1 miles
Strafford Street
BCT · Gainsborough
- 0.2 miles
St Johns Church
BCT · Gainsborough
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Lindsey 004D, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
5,457 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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.
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
- 7
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 21
- 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
Schools
19 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 2 secondary schools. Benjamin Adlard Primary School is the nearest published school at 121 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,767 published events cover 12 months, averaging 230.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 950 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.