Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 2 secondary schools. The Banovallum School is the nearest published school at 1.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LN9 6JA
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 6JA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LN
- Postcode district
- LN9
- Postcode sector
- LN9 6
- Latitude
- 53.179264
- Longitude
- -0.099437
- British National Grid easting
- 527,113
- British National Grid northing
- 366,368
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- East Lindsey · E07000137
- Electoral ward
- Horncastle · E05009885
- Parish or community
- E04005717
- Westminster constituency
- Louth and Horncastle · E14001343
- Output area
- E00132538
- Lower layer super output area
- East Lindsey 009D · E01026105
- Middle layer super output area
- East Lindsey 009 · E02005432
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
- 5
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 2
- 2.7 km
The Banovallum School
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- 3.6 km
St Lawrence School
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- 3.6 km
Horncastle Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 17
- Postcode households
- 7
- Residents per household
- 2.4
- LN9 6 residents
- 5,099
8 female, 9 male
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
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LN9 6 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+
- 14.3%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 42.9%
- 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.
GP practices
1
within 5 km straight-line
HORNCASTLE MEDICAL GROUP
THE OLD VICARAGE, SPILSBY ROAD, HORNCASTLE, LN9 6AL
ODS code C83027
3.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Demand Responsive Area
BCT · Scrivelsby
- 0.3 miles
Lodge Entrance To Park
BCT · Scrivelsby
- 0.3 miles
Lodge Entrance To Park
BCT · Scrivelsby
- 1.3 miles
Honeysuckle Cottage
BCT · Mareham on the Hill
- 1.3 miles
Honeysuckle Cottage
BCT · Mareham on the Hill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for East Lindsey 009D, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
14,767 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
1 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.