Property market
The five-year median is £262,500 from 22 recorded sales in DN21 5FA. 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 5FA
Lea · West Lindsey · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Gainsborough
- Ward
- Lea
- Local authority
- West Lindsey
- Constituency
- Gainsborough
- Postcode district
- DN21
- Postcode sector
- DN21 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DN21 5FA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 November 2022
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DN
- Postcode district
- DN21
- Postcode sector
- DN21 5
- Latitude
- 53.368430
- Longitude
- -0.752438
- British National Grid easting
- 483,108
- British National Grid northing
- 386,452
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- West Lindsey · E07000142
- Electoral ward
- Lea · E05009645
- Parish or community
- E04006012
- Westminster constituency
- Gainsborough · E14001243
- Output area
- E00134065
- Lower layer super output area
- West Lindsey 007A · E01026388
- Middle layer super output area
- West Lindsey 007 · E02005498
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
22 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 22, Orchard Avenue, Lea, Gainsborough, DN21 5FA | 13 December 2024 | £315,000 |
| 26, Orchard Avenue, Lea, Gainsborough, DN21 5FA | 12 July 2024 | £250,000 |
| 24, Orchard Avenue, Lea, Gainsborough, DN21 5FA | 9 July 2024 | £260,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 17
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 1
- 247 m
Frances Olive Anderson Church of England (Aided) Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 2.5 km
St George's Church of England Community Primary School, Gainsborough
Voluntary controlled school
- 2.6 km
Benjamin Adlard Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 48
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 17
- Anti social behaviour 9
- Burglary 6
- Public order 6
- Other theft 4
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DN21 5 residents
- 5,979
Age bands in DN21 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 33.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 27.8%
739 residents
503 residents
1,095 residents
2,033 residents
1,679 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.
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
- 22.7%
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
3.8 km
WILLINGHAM-BY-STOW SURGERY
HIGH STREET, WILLINGHAM BY STOW, GAINSBOROUGH, DN21 5JZ
ODS code C83074
4.9 km
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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Stainton Close
BCT · Lea
- 0.1 miles
Stainton Close
BCT · Lea
- 0.2 miles
The Green
BCT · Lea
- 0.2 miles
The Green
BCT · Lea
- 0.2 miles
Demand Responsive Area
BCT · Lea
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Lindsey 007A, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,984 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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.
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
17 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 1 secondary schools. Frances Olive Anderson Church of England (Aided) Primary School is the nearest published school at 247 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
48 published events cover 12 months, averaging 4 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 17 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.