Schools
16 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 1 secondary schools. The Python Hill Academy is the nearest published school at 628 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NG21 0JN
Rainworth South & Blidworth · Newark and Sherwood · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Newark and Sherwood
- Constituency
- Sherwood Forest
- Postcode district
- NG21
- Postcode sector
- NG21 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NG21 0JN
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 May 2008
- Postcode area
- NG
- Postcode district
- NG21
- Postcode sector
- NG21 0
- Latitude
- 53.112948
- Longitude
- -1.111128
- British National Grid easting
- 459,595
- British National Grid northing
- 357,674
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Newark and Sherwood · E07000175
- Electoral ward
- Rainworth South & Blidworth · E05010080
- Parish or community
- E04007937
- Westminster constituency
- Sherwood Forest · E14001471
- Output area
- E00144417
- Lower layer super output area
- Newark and Sherwood 006F · E01028343
- Middle layer super output area
- Newark and Sherwood 006 · E02005898
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 NG21
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 16
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 1
- 628 m
The Python Hill Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 700 m
The Joseph Whitaker School
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- 931 m
Lake View Primary and Nursery School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 814
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 456
- Anti social behaviour 100
- Criminal damage and arson 66
- Other crime 43
- Public order 42
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NG21 0 residents
- 12,731
Age bands in NG21 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.3%
2,132 residents
1,242 residents
3,240 residents
3,629 residents
2,449 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
RAINWORTH HEALTH CENTRE
WARSOP LANE, RAINWORTH, MANSFIELD, NG21 0AD
ODS code C84087
666 m
HILL VIEW SURGERY
KIRKLINGTON ROAD, RAINWORTH, MANSFIELD, NG21 0JP
ODS code C84656
713 m
ABBEY MEDICAL GROUP
BLIDWORTH SURGERY, 59-61 MANSFIELD ROAD, BLIDWORTH, MANSFIELD, NG21 0RB
ODS code C84037
1.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Rugby Road
BCT · Rainworth
- 0.1 miles
Cambridge Road
BCT · Rainworth
- 0.1 miles
Preston Road
BCT · Rainworth
- 0.2 miles
Hall Close
BCT · Rainworth
- 0.2 miles
Hall Close
BCT · Rainworth
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Newark and Sherwood 006F, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
12,493 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
814 published events cover 12 months, averaging 67.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 456 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.