Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 1 secondary schools. Kirton Academy is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DN21 4BQ
Ridge · North Lincolnshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Ridge
- Local authority
- North Lincolnshire
- Constituency
- Scunthorpe
- Postcode district
- DN21
- Postcode sector
- DN21 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DN21 4BQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 November 2002
- Postcode area
- DN
- Postcode district
- DN21
- Postcode sector
- DN21 4
- Latitude
- 53.484846
- Longitude
- -0.595800
- British National Grid easting
- 493,275
- British National Grid northing
- 399,596
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- North Lincolnshire · E06000013
- Electoral ward
- Ridge · E05015091
- Parish or community
- E04000566
- Westminster constituency
- Scunthorpe · E14001462
- Output area
- E00189229
- Lower layer super output area
- North Lincolnshire 022A · E01013322
- 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 DN21
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.2 km
Kirton Academy
Academy converter
- 1.4 km
Kirton Lindsey Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 4.7 km
Scotter Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 110
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 54
- Public order 12
- Criminal damage and arson 11
- Other theft 7
- Burglary 6
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DN21 4 residents
- 5,117
Age bands in DN21 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.6%
781 residents
445 residents
1,054 residents
1,613 residents
1,273 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
1
within 5 km straight-line
KIRTON LINDSEY AND SCOTTER SURGERY
THE SURGERY, TRAINGATE, KIRTON LINDSEY, GAINSBOROUGH, DN21 4PQ
ODS code B81099
1.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Kirton Lindsey Rail Station
RLY · Kirton in Lindsey
- 0.1 miles
Kirton Lindsey Rail Station
RSE · Kirton in Lindsey
- 0.1 miles
Garden Centre
BCT · Kirton in Lindsey
- 0.3 miles
Richdale Avenue
BCT · Kirton in Lindsey
- 0.3 miles
Richdale Avenue
BCT · Kirton in Lindsey
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Lincolnshire 022A, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
18,544 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
110 published events cover 12 months, averaging 9.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 54 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.