Schools
4 open schools are in scope, including 1 primary and 2 secondary schools. Horncastle Primary School is the nearest published school at 356 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LN9 5BZ
Horncastle · East Lindsey · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 5BZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 2021
- Terminated
- 1 October 2023
- Postcode area
- LN
- Postcode district
- LN9
- Postcode sector
- LN9 5
- Latitude
- 53.208950
- Longitude
- -0.113623
- British National Grid easting
- 526,078
- British National Grid northing
- 369,645
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
- E00132266
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 4
- Primary
- 1
- Secondary
- 2
- 356 m
Horncastle Primary School
Academy converter
- 448 m
St Lawrence School
Academy special converter
- 575 m
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Horncastle
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 511
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 210
- Anti social behaviour 84
- Criminal damage and arson 49
- Shoplifting 42
- Other theft 29
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LN9 5 residents
- 5,081
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
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
1
within 5 km straight-line
HORNCASTLE MEDICAL GROUP
THE OLD VICARAGE, SPILSBY ROAD, HORNCASTLE, LN9 6AL
ODS code C83027
413 m
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Interchange Shelter
BCT · Horncastle
- 0.1 miles
Linden Road
BCT · Horncastle
- 0.1 miles
Stanhope Terrace
BCT · Horncastle
- 0.1 miles
Stanhope Road
BCT · Horncastle
- 0.2 miles
Jubilee Way
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
511 published events cover 12 months, averaging 42.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 210 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.