Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 1 secondary schools. Legsby Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.2 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LN8 3QS
Market Rasen · West Lindsey · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Market Rasen
- Local authority
- West Lindsey
- Constituency
- Gainsborough
- Postcode district
- LN8
- Postcode sector
- LN8 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LN8 3QS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LN
- Postcode district
- LN8
- Postcode sector
- LN8 3
- Latitude
- 53.361679
- Longitude
- -0.269418
- British National Grid easting
- 515,263
- British National Grid northing
- 386,371
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
- E04006013
- Westminster constituency
- Gainsborough · E14001243
- Output area
- E00134068
- Lower layer super output area
- West Lindsey 003C · E01026391
- 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
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.9 km
Legsby Primary School
Community school
- 4.4 km
Tealby School
Community school
- 4.5 km
De Aston School
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Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 8
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 1.6
- LN8 3 residents
- 9,603
4 female, 4 male
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%
1,384 residents
798 residents
1,917 residents
2,824 residents
2,759 residents
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+
- 0%
- 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
- 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.
Nearby transport
- 0.7 miles
Letter Box
BCT · Little London
- 0.7 miles
Letter Box
BCT · Little London
- 1.0 miles
Parkview
BCT · Legsby
- 1.1 miles
St Thomas's Church
BCT · Legsby
- 1.1 miles
St Thomas's Church
BCT · Legsby
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Lindsey 003C, 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
19,256 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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.
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.