Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 1 secondary schools. Branston Junior Academy is the nearest published school at 399 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LN4 1LN
Branston · North Kesteven · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Branston
- Local authority
- North Kesteven
- Constituency
- Sleaford and North Hykeham
- Postcode district
- LN4
- Postcode sector
- LN4 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LN4 1LN
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 January 1995
- Postcode area
- LN
- Postcode district
- LN4
- Postcode sector
- LN4 1
- Latitude
- 53.191182
- Longitude
- -0.470323
- British National Grid easting
- 502,300
- British National Grid northing
- 367,100
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- North Kesteven · E07000139
- Electoral ward
- Branston · E05014429
- Parish or community
- E04005788
- Westminster constituency
- Sleaford and North Hykeham · E14001476
- Output area
- E00185301
- Lower layer super output area
- North Kesteven 004D · E01026190
- Middle layer super output area
- North Kesteven 004 · E02005456
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 LN4
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 8
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 1
- 399 m
Branston Junior Academy
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- 933 m
Branston Community Academy
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- 962 m
Branston Church of England Infant Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 206
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 97
- Anti social behaviour 34
- Shoplifting 20
- Criminal damage and arson 16
- Public order 11
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LN4 1 residents
- 11,371
Age bands in LN4 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 28.6%
1,692 residents
982 residents
2,309 residents
3,174 residents
3,261 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
THE BRANSTON HEIGHINGTON FAMILY PRACTICE
STATION ROAD, BRANSTON, LINCOLN, LN4 1LH
ODS code C83029
543 m
WASHINGBOROUGH SURGERY
SCHOOL LANE, WASHINGBOROUGH, LINCOLN, LN4 1BN
ODS code C83058
3.4 km
THE HEATH SURGERY
LONDON ROAD, BRACEBRIDGE HEATH, LINCOLN, LN4 2LA
ODS code C83046
4.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Station Road
BCT · Branston
- 0.2 miles
Station Road
BCT · Branston
- 0.2 miles
Curtois Close
BCT · Branston
- 0.2 miles
Curtois Close
BCT · Branston
- 0.2 miles
99 Sleaford Road
BCT · Branston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Kesteven 004D, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
15,781 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
206 published events cover 12 months, averaging 17.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 97 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.