Property market
The five-year median is £160,000 from 4 recorded sales in DN21 5QS. 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 5QS
Hemswell · West Lindsey · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Gainsborough
- Ward
- Hemswell
- Local authority
- West Lindsey
- Constituency
- Gainsborough
- Postcode district
- DN21
- Postcode sector
- DN21 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DN21 5QS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DN
- Postcode district
- DN21
- Postcode sector
- DN21 5
- Latitude
- 53.411877
- Longitude
- -0.691305
- British National Grid easting
- 487,087
- British National Grid northing
- 391,358
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- West Lindsey · E07000142
- Electoral ward
- Hemswell · E05009643
- Parish or community
- E04005979
- Westminster constituency
- Gainsborough · E14001243
- Output area
- E00134043
- Lower layer super output area
- West Lindsey 005A · E01026385
- Middle layer super output area
- West Lindsey 005 · E02005496
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
23 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 36, Middle Street, Corringham, Gainsborough, DN21 5QS | 28 April 2026 | £250,000 |
| 54, Middle Street, Corringham, Gainsborough, DN21 5QS | 19 December 2025 | £200,000 |
| 62, Middle Street, Corringham, Gainsborough, DN21 5QS | 21 August 2025 | £120,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 8
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 1
- 214 m
Corringham CofE VC Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 4.0 km
Blyton Cum Laughton Church of England School
Voluntary aided school
- 4.3 km
The Gainsborough Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 17
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Burglary 4
- Other theft 4
- Violence and sexual offences 4
- Public order 2
- Anti social behaviour 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 42
- Postcode households
- 22
- Residents per household
- 1.9
- DN21 5 residents
- 5,979
21 female, 21 male
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
This postcode contained 0.7% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DN21 5 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.
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
- 0%
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.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Demand Responsive Area
BCT · Corringham
- 0.0 miles
Methodist Church
BCT · Corringham
- 0.0 miles
Methodist Church
BCT · Corringham
- 0.1 miles
St Lawrence Church
BCT · Corringham
- 0.1 miles
St Lawrence Church
BCT · Corringham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Lindsey 005A, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
13,186 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
- 1
- 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
8 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 1 secondary schools. Corringham CofE VC Primary School is the nearest published school at 214 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
17 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Burglary with 4 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.