Schools
19 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 2 secondary schools. Castle Wood Academy is the nearest published school at 347 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DN21 1EY
Gainsborough North · West Lindsey · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Gainsborough
- Ward
- Gainsborough North
- Local authority
- West Lindsey
- Constituency
- Gainsborough
- Postcode district
- DN21
- Postcode sector
- DN21 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DN21 1EY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DN
- Postcode district
- DN21
- Postcode sector
- DN21 1
- Latitude
- 53.406271
- Longitude
- -0.769474
- British National Grid easting
- 481,902
- British National Grid northing
- 390,642
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- West Lindsey · E07000142
- Electoral ward
- Gainsborough North · E05009641
- Parish or community
- E04006081
- Westminster constituency
- Gainsborough · E14001243
- Output area
- E00134007
- Lower layer super output area
- West Lindsey 004B · E01026379
- 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
6 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 2, Beech Avenue, Gainsborough, DN21 1EY | 18 December 2020 | £210,000 |
| 2, Beech Avenue, Gainsborough, DN21 1EY | 12 November 2004 | £170,000 |
| 6, Beech Avenue, Gainsborough, DN21 1EY | 22 March 2002 | £68,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 19
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 2
- 347 m
Castle Wood Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 410 m
Handel House Preparatory School
Other independent school
- 660 m
The Gainsborough Parish Church Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,871
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,086
- Anti social behaviour 482
- Shoplifting 389
- Criminal damage and arson 315
- Public order 136
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 13
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 2.6
- DN21 1 residents
- 13,465
7 female, 6 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 0.1% 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
- 100%
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
958 m
CLEVELAND SURGERY
VANESSA DRIVE, GAINSBOROUGH, DN21 2UQ
ODS code C83018
961 m
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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Lime Tree Avenue
BCT · Gainsborough
- 0.2 miles
Lime Tree Avenue
BCT · Gainsborough
- 0.2 miles
Hawthorn Avenue
BCT · Gainsborough
- 0.2 miles
Leisure Centre
BCT · Gainsborough
- 0.2 miles
Highfield Lodge
BCT · Gainsborough
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Lindsey 004B, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
6,948 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
- 0
- 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
2,871 published events cover 12 months, averaging 239.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,086 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.