Schools
4 open schools are in scope, including 1 primary and 2 secondary schools. The Banovallum School is the nearest published school at 495 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LN9 6HY
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 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LN9 6HY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 May 2026
- Postcode area
- LN
- Postcode district
- LN9
- Postcode sector
- LN9 6
- Latitude
- 53.198455
- Longitude
- -0.111718
- British National Grid easting
- 526,236
- British National Grid northing
- 368,481
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
- E00132274
- Lower layer super output area
- East Lindsey 011A · E01026064
- 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
- 495 m
The Banovallum School
Academy converter
- 1.4 km
St Lawrence School
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- 1.4 km
Horncastle Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 463
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 194
- Anti social behaviour 72
- Criminal damage and arson 47
- Shoplifting 42
- Other theft 25
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LN9 6 residents
- 5,099
Age bands in LN9 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.5%
826 residents
440 residents
995 residents
1,580 residents
1,387 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
1.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
The Original Factory Shop
BCT · Horncastle
- 0.1 miles
Thornton Crescent
BCT · Horncastle
- 0.2 miles
College Close
BCT · Horncastle
- 0.2 miles
College Close
BCT · Horncastle
- 0.2 miles
Cromwell Avenue
BCT · Horncastle
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for East Lindsey 011A, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
5,651 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 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.
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
Recorded crime
463 published events cover 12 months, averaging 38.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 194 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.