Property market
The five-year median is £81,625 from 2 recorded sales in DN21 1HY. 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 1HY
Gainsborough East · West Lindsey · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Gainsborough
- Ward
- Gainsborough East
- Local authority
- West Lindsey
- Constituency
- Gainsborough
- Postcode district
- DN21
- Postcode sector
- DN21 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DN21 1HY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 April 2005
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DN
- Postcode district
- DN21
- Postcode sector
- DN21 1
- Latitude
- 53.391251
- Longitude
- -0.755621
- British National Grid easting
- 482,852
- British National Grid northing
- 388,987
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- West Lindsey · E07000142
- Electoral ward
- Gainsborough East · E05009640
- Parish or community
- E04006081
- Westminster constituency
- Gainsborough · E14001243
- Output area
- E00133989
- Lower layer super output area
- West Lindsey 006C · E01026376
- Middle layer super output area
- West Lindsey 006 · E02005497
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
17 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 4, Fernwood Mews, Gainsborough, DN21 1HY | 1 September 2024 | £83,500 |
| 6, Fernwood Mews, Gainsborough, DN21 1HY | 1 September 2024 | £79,750 |
| Fernwood Care Home, Fernwood Mews, Gainsborough, DN21 1HY | 5 February 2019 | £972,822 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 18
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 2
- 98 m
St George's Church of England Community Primary School, Gainsborough
Voluntary controlled school
- 808 m
The Gainsborough Hillcrest Early Years Academy
Academy converter
- 898 m
Benjamin Adlard Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,487
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 851
- Anti social behaviour 421
- Shoplifting 399
- Criminal damage and arson 277
- Public order 130
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 10
- Postcode households
- 8
- Residents per household
- 1.3
- DN21 1 residents
- 13,465
5 female, 5 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.
GP practices
2
within 5 km straight-line
CASKGATE STREET SURGERY
ELSWITHA HALL, 3 CASKGATE STREET, GAINSBOROUGH, DN21 2DJ
ODS code C83044
1.7 km
CLEVELAND SURGERY
VANESSA DRIVE, GAINSBOROUGH, DN21 2UQ
ODS code C83018
2.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Park Springs Clinic
BCT · Gainsborough
- 0.1 miles
Park Springs Clinic
BCT · Gainsborough
- 0.1 miles
Victoria Close
BCT · Gainsborough
- 0.1 miles
Victoria Close
BCT · Gainsborough
- 0.1 miles
Fillingham Close
BCT · Gainsborough
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Lindsey 006C, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
2,293 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
Schools
18 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 2 secondary schools. St George's Church of England Community Primary School, Gainsborough is the nearest published school at 98 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,487 published events cover 12 months, averaging 207.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 851 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.