Property market
The five-year median is £910,000 from 1 recorded sale in NG23 5HJ. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for South Kesteven is £255,363 in June 2026, up 2.2% year on year.
NG23 5HJ
Viking · South Kesteven · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Newark
- Ward
- Viking
- Local authority
- South Kesteven
- Constituency
- Grantham and Bourne
- Postcode district
- NG23
- Postcode sector
- NG23 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NG23 5HJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NG
- Postcode district
- NG23
- Postcode sector
- NG23 5
- Latitude
- 52.991195
- Longitude
- -0.733665
- British National Grid easting
- 485,099
- British National Grid northing
- 344,510
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- South Kesteven · E07000141
- Electoral ward
- Viking · E05010177
- Parish or community
- E04005952
- Westminster constituency
- Grantham and Bourne · E14001253
- Output area
- E00133879
- Lower layer super output area
- South Kesteven 002C · E01026355
- Middle layer super output area
- South Kesteven 002 · E02005477
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 NG23
Property
13 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| The Chestnuts, Town Street, Westborough, Newark, NG23 5HJ | 5 June 2025 | £910,000 |
| Glebe Acre, Town Street, Westborough, Newark, NG23 5HJ | 30 July 2021 | £820,000 |
| The Chestnuts, Town Street, Westborough, Newark, NG23 5HJ | 4 October 2019 | £460,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 4
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.6 km
Long Bennington Church of England Academy
Academy converter
- 4.2 km
The Marston Thorold's Charity Church of England School
Voluntary aided school
- 4.3 km
Allington with Sedgebrook Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 38
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Anti social behaviour 10
- Violence and sexual offences 8
- Vehicle crime 6
- Other crime 4
- Criminal damage and arson 4
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 24
- Postcode households
- 9
- Residents per household
- 2.7
- NG23 5 residents
- 7,442
12 female, 12 male
Age bands in NG23 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 33.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 27.9%
1,016 residents
625 residents
1,170 residents
2,495 residents
2,051 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider NG23 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- 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
LONG BENNINGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
THE MEDICAL CENTRE, 10 VALLEY LANE, LONG BENNINGTON, NEWARK, NG23 5FR
ODS code C83067
1.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Demand Responsive Area
BCT · Westborough
- 0.2 miles
Bus Shelter
BCT · Westborough
- 0.2 miles
Council Houses
BCT · Westborough
- 0.2 miles
Council Houses
BCT · Westborough
- 0.7 miles
Woods Close
BCT · Long Bennington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Kesteven 002C, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
26,498 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
- 1
- Medium risk addresses
- 4
- Low risk addresses
- 2
- 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 4 primary and 0 secondary schools. Long Bennington Church of England Academy is the nearest published school at 1.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
38 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 10 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.