Schools
4 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Acacia School is the nearest published school at 1.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LN3 5FR
Dunholme and Welton · West Lindsey · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Dunholme and Welton
- Local authority
- West Lindsey
- Constituency
- Gainsborough
- Postcode district
- LN3
- Postcode sector
- LN3 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LN3 5FR
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 1995
- Terminated
- 1 November 2011
- Postcode area
- LN
- Postcode district
- LN3
- Postcode sector
- LN3 5
- Latitude
- 53.312285
- Longitude
- -0.405282
- British National Grid easting
- 506,345
- British National Grid northing
- 380,666
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- West Lindsey · E07000142
- Electoral ward
- Dunholme and Welton · E05009639
- Parish or community
- E04006048
- Westminster constituency
- Gainsborough · E14001243
- Output area
- E00133974
- Lower layer super output area
- West Lindsey 008A · E01026372
- Middle layer super output area
- West Lindsey 008 · E02005499
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 LN3
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 4
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 0
- 2.9 km
Acacia School
Other independent special school
- 4.1 km
Faldingworth Community Primary School
Community school
- 4.3 km
Dunholme St Chad's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 9
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3
- Burglary 2
- Anti social behaviour 2
- Drugs 1
- Criminal damage and arson 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LN3 5 residents
- 3,494
Age bands in LN3 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.9%
554 residents
341 residents
808 residents
954 residents
836 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 100%
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
- 0.6 miles
Telephone Box
BCT · Snelland
- 0.6 miles
Telephone Box
BCT · Snelland
- 0.6 miles
Demand Responsive Area
BCT · Snelland
- 0.7 miles
Demand Responsive Area
BCT · Reasby
- 0.7 miles
Reasby Manor
BCT · Reasby
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Lindsey 008A, 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
22,805 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
9 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.