Schools
38 open schools are in scope, including 25 primary and 5 secondary schools. Fortuna School is the nearest published school at 375 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LN6 3NS
Birchwood · Lincoln · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LN6 3NS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 February 1984
- Terminated
- 1 December 1991
- Postcode area
- LN
- Postcode district
- LN6
- Postcode sector
- LN6 3
- Latitude
- 53.208145
- Longitude
- -0.607480
- British National Grid easting
- 493,100
- British National Grid northing
- 368,800
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
- E00132676
- 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
- 38
- Primary
- 25
- Secondary
- 5
- 375 m
Fortuna School
Community special school
- 412 m
Leslie Manser Primary School
Community school
- 418 m
The Kingsdown Nursery School, Lincoln
Local authority nursery school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,067
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 418
- Anti social behaviour 233
- Criminal damage and arson 136
- Vehicle crime 65
- Public order 57
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LN6 3 residents
- 3,638
Age bands in LN6 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.8%
590 residents
416 residents
1,049 residents
1,223 residents
1,141 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
8
within 5 km straight-line
BIRCHWOOD MEDICAL PRACTICE
JASMIN ROAD, LINCOLN, LN6 0QQ
ODS code C83082
860 m
THE WOODLAND MEDICAL PRACTICE
JASMIN ROAD, LINCOLN, LN6 0QQ
ODS code C83041
860 m
RICHMOND MEDICAL CENTRE
MOOR LANE, NORTH HYKEHAM, LINCOLN, LN6 9AY
ODS code C83025
2.4 km
BOULTHAM PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
BOULTHAM PARK ROAD, LINCOLN, LN6 7SS
ODS code C83014
3.2 km
BRANT ROAD & SPRINGCLIFFE SURGERY
291 BRANT ROAD, LINCOLN, LN5 9AB
ODS code C83078
4.0 km
BRAYFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE
NEWLAND HEALTH CENTRE, 34 NEWLAND, LINCOLN, LN1 1XP
ODS code C83626
4.9 km
HEART OF LINCOLN HEALTH GROUP
60 PORTLAND STREET, LINCOLN, LN5 7LB
ODS code C83001
4.9 km
THE HEATH SURGERY
LONDON ROAD, BRACEBRIDGE HEATH, LINCOLN, LN4 2LA
ODS code C83046
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Kelstern Road
BCT · Doddington Park
- 0.1 miles
Kelstern Road
BCT · Doddington Park
- 0.1 miles
Benson Crescent
BCT · Doddington Park
- 0.1 miles
Waltham Road
BCT · Doddington Park
- 0.1 miles
Waltham Road
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,067 published events cover 12 months, averaging 88.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 418 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.