LN8 3PL

Market Rasen · West Lindsey · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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Ward: Market Rasen
Local authority: West Lindsey
Constituency: Gainsborough
Postcode district: LN8
Postcode sector: LN8 3

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
LN8 3PR	331 m
LN8 3ZU	454 m
LN8 3PW	582 m
LN8 3PJ	623 m
LN8 3PN	631 m

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: LN8 3PL
Status: Current
Introduced: 1 January 1980
Terminated: Not published
Postcode area: LN
Postcode district: LN8
Postcode sector: LN8 3
Latitude: 53.434131
Longitude: -0.402653
British National Grid easting: 506,217
British National Grid northing: 394,224

Statistical and administrative geographies

Country: England · E92000001
Region: East Midlands · E12000004
Local authority district: West Lindsey · E07000142
Electoral ward: Market Rasen · E05009646
Parish or community: E04006031
Westminster constituency: Gainsborough · E14001243
Output area: E00134093
Lower layer super output area: West Lindsey 003D · E01026392
Middle layer super output area: West Lindsey 003 · E02005494

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 LN8

Schools

Within 3.1 miles of this postcode

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Open schools: 1
Primary: 1
Secondary: 0

Osgodby Primary School

Community school
2.1 km

Recorded crime

Within 1 mile of this postcode

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Published events: 8
Months covered: 12
Latest month: June 2026

Most recorded categories in this period

Burglary 5
Criminal damage and arson 2
Violence and sexual offences 1

Census 2021

Population and age profile

Postcode residents: 5
Postcode households: 1
Residents per household: 5.0
LN8 3 residents: 9,603

Age bands in LN8 3

Wider postcode sector

Age 0 to 14: 14.3%
Age 15 to 24: 8.2%
Age 25 to 44: 19.8%
Age 45 to 64: 29.2%
Age 65 and over: 28.5%

This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LN8 3 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+: 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: 0%

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

Thornton Road

BCT · North Owersby
0.2 miles
Thornton Road

BCT · North Owersby
0.2 miles
Demand Responsive Area

BCT · North Owersby
0.3 miles
Moor Road

BCT · North Owersby
0.3 miles
Moor Road

BCT · North Owersby
0.3 miles

Relative deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Lindsey 003D, 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

20,721 of 33,755

Income: 6 of 10
Employment: 6 of 10
Education and skills: 7 of 10
Health and disability: 8 of 10
Crime: 9 of 10
Housing and services: 2 of 10
Living environment: 6 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

Schools

1 open schools are in scope, including 1 primary and 0 secondary schools. Osgodby Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.3 miles.

Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.

Recorded crime

8 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Burglary with 5 events.

The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.