Property market
The five-year median is £197,500 from 2 recorded sales in LN9 5BJ. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for East Lindsey is £216,315 in June 2026, up 7.4% year on year.
LN9 5BJ
Horncastle · East Lindsey · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Horncastle
- Ward
- Horncastle
- Local authority
- East Lindsey
- Constituency
- Louth and Horncastle
- Postcode district
- LN9
- Postcode sector
- LN9 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LN9 5BJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LN
- Postcode district
- LN9
- Postcode sector
- LN9 5
- Latitude
- 53.209025
- Longitude
- -0.116121
- British National Grid easting
- 525,911
- British National Grid northing
- 369,649
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- East Lindsey · E07000137
- Electoral ward
- Horncastle · E05009885
- Parish or community
- E04005665
- Westminster constituency
- Louth and Horncastle · E14001343
- Output area
- E00132264
- Lower layer super output area
- East Lindsey 011D · E01026067
- Middle layer super output area
- East Lindsey 011 · E02005434
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 LN9
Property
9 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 19, St Lawrence Street, Horncastle, LN9 5BJ | 26 February 2024 | £260,000 |
| Golden Boy, 8, St Lawrence Street, Horncastle, LN9 5BJ | 13 October 2023 | £135,000 |
| 10, St Lawrence Street, Horncastle, LN9 5BJ | 22 December 2006 | £200,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 4
- Primary
- 1
- Secondary
- 2
- 409 m
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Horncastle
Academy converter
- 487 m
Horncastle Primary School
Academy converter
- 596 m
St Lawrence School
Academy special converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 513
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 211
- Anti social behaviour 85
- Criminal damage and arson 49
- Shoplifting 42
- Other theft 29
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 3
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 1.5
- LN9 5 residents
- 5,081
1 female, 2 male
Age bands in LN9 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 30.7%
615 residents
446 residents
874 residents
1,499 residents
1,523 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LN9 5 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
- 42.9%
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
1
within 5 km
HORNCASTLE MEDICAL GROUP
THE OLD VICARAGE, SPILSBY ROAD, HORNCASTLE, LN9 6AL
ODS code C83027
578 m
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Interchange Shelter
BCT · Horncastle
- 0.1 miles
Jubilee Way
BCT · Horncastle
- 0.1 miles
Tesco
BCT · Horncastle
- 0.2 miles
Linden Road
BCT · Horncastle
- 0.2 miles
Ashwood Close
BCT · Horncastle
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for East Lindsey 011D, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
9,624 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
4 open schools are in scope, including 1 primary and 2 secondary schools. Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Horncastle is the nearest published school at 409 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
513 published events cover 12 months, averaging 42.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 211 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.