Schools
37 open schools are in scope, including 24 primary and 5 secondary schools. The Lancaster School is the nearest published school at 34 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LN6 0QY
Birchwood · Lincoln · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LN6 0QY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 May 2011
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LN
- Postcode district
- LN6
- Postcode sector
- LN6 0
- Latitude
- 53.214987
- Longitude
- -0.605206
- British National Grid easting
- 493,237
- British National Grid northing
- 369,564
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Lincoln · E07000138
- Electoral ward
- Birchwood · E05010785
- Parish or community
- E43000110
- Westminster constituency
- Lincoln · E14001336
- Output area
- E00185330
- Lower layer super output area
- Lincoln 007F · E01034690
- Middle layer super output area
- Lincoln 007 · E02005448
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 LN6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 37
- Primary
- 24
- Secondary
- 5
- 34 m
The Lancaster School
Foundation school
- 193 m
Lincoln Birchwood Junior School
Community school
- 407 m
Leslie Manser Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,206
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 482
- Anti social behaviour 269
- Criminal damage and arson 154
- Public order 69
- Vehicle crime 65
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 18
- Postcode households
- 17
- Residents per household
- 1.1
- LN6 0 residents
- 13,952
11 female, 7 male
Age bands in LN6 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.6%
2,464 residents
1,477 residents
3,601 residents
3,248 residents
2,462 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LN6 0 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
- 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.
GP practices
8
within 5 km straight-line
BIRCHWOOD MEDICAL PRACTICE
JASMIN ROAD, LINCOLN, LN6 0QQ
ODS code C83082
88 m
THE WOODLAND MEDICAL PRACTICE
JASMIN ROAD, LINCOLN, LN6 0QQ
ODS code C83041
88 m
BOULTHAM PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
BOULTHAM PARK ROAD, LINCOLN, LN6 7SS
ODS code C83014
3.0 km
RICHMOND MEDICAL CENTRE
MOOR LANE, NORTH HYKEHAM, LINCOLN, LN6 9AY
ODS code C83025
3.1 km
BRANT ROAD & SPRINGCLIFFE SURGERY
291 BRANT ROAD, LINCOLN, LN5 9AB
ODS code C83078
4.3 km
BRAYFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE
NEWLAND HEALTH CENTRE, 34 NEWLAND, LINCOLN, LN1 1XP
ODS code C83626
4.4 km
HEART OF LINCOLN HEALTH GROUP
60 PORTLAND STREET, LINCOLN, LN5 7LB
ODS code C83001
4.5 km
CLIFF HOUSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
82 BURTON ROAD, LINCOLN, LN1 3LJ
ODS code C83073
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Neighbourhood Centre
BCT · Birchwood Estate
- 0.1 miles
Neighbourhood Centre
BCT · Birchwood Estate
- 0.1 miles
Mallory Close
BCT · Doddington Park
- 0.1 miles
Mallory Close
BCT · Doddington Park
- 0.2 miles
59 Aldergrove Crescent
BCT · Doddington Park
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lincoln 007F, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,228 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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.
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
Recorded crime
1,206 published events cover 12 months, averaging 100.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 482 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.