Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Scawby Academy is the nearest published school at 1.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DN21 4JU
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 4JU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1981
- Postcode area
- DN
- Postcode district
- DN21
- Postcode sector
- DN21 4
- Latitude
- 53.524290
- Longitude
- -0.583560
- British National Grid easting
- 494,000
- British National Grid northing
- 404,000
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
- E04000568
- Westminster constituency
- Scunthorpe · E14001462
- Output area
- E00067250
- Lower layer super output area
- North Lincolnshire 021A · E01013324
- Middle layer super output area
- North Lincolnshire 021 · E02002769
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
- 3
- Secondary
- 0
- 3.1 km
Scawby Academy
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- 4.4 km
Hibaldstow Academy
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- 4.5 km
Messingham Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 8
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 4
- Other theft 1
- Public order 1
- Anti social behaviour 1
- Possession of weapons 1
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
HIBALDSTOW MEDICAL PRACTICE
11 CHURCH STREET, HIBALDSTOW, BRIGG, DN20 9ED
ODS code C83033
4.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.6 miles
Crossroads
BCT · Greetwell
- 0.6 miles
Demand Responsive Area
BCT · Greetwell
- 0.7 miles
Crossroads
BCT · Greetwell
- 0.7 miles
Crossroads
BCT · Greetwell
- 0.7 miles
Crossroads
BCT · Greetwell
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Lincolnshire 021A, 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
19,438 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
8 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 4 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.