Schools
4 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Bassingham Primary School is the nearest published school at 357 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LN5 9JY
Bassingham Rural · North Kesteven · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Bassingham Rural
- Local authority
- North Kesteven
- Constituency
- Sleaford and North Hykeham
- Postcode district
- LN5
- Postcode sector
- LN5 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LN5 9JY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1999
- Postcode area
- LN
- Postcode district
- LN5
- Postcode sector
- LN5 9
- Latitude
- 53.130662
- Longitude
- -0.636872
- British National Grid easting
- 491,301
- British National Grid northing
- 360,143
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- North Kesteven · E07000139
- Electoral ward
- Bassingham Rural · E05014426
- Parish or community
- E04005782
- Westminster constituency
- Sleaford and North Hykeham · E14001476
- Output area
- E00132937
- Lower layer super output area
- North Kesteven 003B · E01026182
- Middle layer super output area
- North Kesteven 003 · E02005455
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 LN5
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 4
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 0
- 357 m
Bassingham Primary School
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- 3.0 km
Witham St Hughs Academy
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- 3.8 km
Witham Prospect School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 45
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 17
- Anti social behaviour 15
- Burglary 3
- Other theft 3
- Public order 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LN5 9 residents
- 12,611
Age bands in LN5 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.5%
2,187 residents
1,330 residents
3,467 residents
3,596 residents
2,733 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
THE BASSINGHAM SURGERY
20 TORGATE LANE, BASSINGHAM, LINCOLN, LN5 9HF
ODS code C83611
441 m
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Linga Lane Bus Shelter
BCT · Bassingham
- 0.0 miles
Linga Lane Bus Shelter
BCT · Bassingham
- 0.1 miles
Badgers Oak
BCT · Bassingham
- 0.1 miles
Badgers Oak
BCT · Bassingham
- 0.1 miles
Demand Responsive Area
BCT · Bassingham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Kesteven 003B, 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
22,979 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 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
45 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.75 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.