Schools
20 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 2 secondary schools. Castles Education is the nearest published school at 224 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DN21 2PY
Gainsborough South-West · West Lindsey · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- West Lindsey
- Constituency
- Gainsborough
- Postcode district
- DN21
- Postcode sector
- DN21 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DN21 2PY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1982
- Postcode area
- DN
- Postcode district
- DN21
- Postcode sector
- DN21 2
- Latitude
- 53.402438
- Longitude
- -0.783152
- British National Grid easting
- 481,000
- British National Grid northing
- 390,200
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
- E00134040
- Lower layer super output area
- West Lindsey 004F · E01026384
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 20
- Primary
- 12
- Secondary
- 2
- 224 m
Castles Education
Other independent school
- 398 m
The Gainsborough Parish Church Primary School
Academy converter
- 612 m
Mercer's Wood Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,660
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 987
- Anti social behaviour 446
- Shoplifting 386
- Criminal damage and arson 258
- Public order 143
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DN21 2 residents
- 7,049
Age bands in DN21 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.8%
1,355 residents
797 residents
1,846 residents
1,914 residents
1,283 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
2
within 5 km straight-line
CASKGATE STREET SURGERY
ELSWITHA HALL, 3 CASKGATE STREET, GAINSBOROUGH, DN21 2DJ
ODS code C83044
513 m
CLEVELAND SURGERY
VANESSA DRIVE, GAINSBOROUGH, DN21 2UQ
ODS code C83018
1.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Riverside Approach
BCT · Gainsborough
- 0.1 miles
Riverside Approach
BCT · Gainsborough
- 0.1 miles
Balfour Street
BCT · Gainsborough
- 0.2 miles
Japan Road
BCT · Gainsborough
- 0.2 miles
Japan Road
BCT · Gainsborough
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Lindsey 004F, 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
2,001 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
2,660 published events cover 12 months, averaging 221.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 987 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.