Schools
6 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 0 secondary schools. Three Chestnuts is the nearest published school at 2.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PE12 8RB
Whaplode and Holbeach St John's · South Holland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- South Holland
- Constituency
- South Holland and The Deepings
- Postcode district
- PE12
- Postcode sector
- PE12 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PE12 8RB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 February 2009
- Postcode area
- PE
- Postcode district
- PE12
- Postcode sector
- PE12 8
- Latitude
- 52.762949
- Longitude
- 0.005533
- British National Grid easting
- 535,421
- British National Grid northing
- 320,255
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- South Holland · E07000140
- Electoral ward
- Whaplode and Holbeach St John's · E05005661
- Parish or community
- E04005859
- Westminster constituency
- South Holland and The Deepings · E14001487
- Output area
- E00133303
- Lower layer super output area
- South Holland 010B · E01026249
- Middle layer super output area
- South Holland 010 · E02005474
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 PE12
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 6
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 0
- 3.1 km
Three Chestnuts
Other independent special school
- 4.1 km
Tudor Lodge Therapeutic School
Other independent special school
- 4.5 km
The Holbeach William Stukeley Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 35
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 15
- Burglary 9
- Anti social behaviour 5
- Other theft 3
- Public order 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PE12 8 residents
- 4,940
Age bands in PE12 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 33%
- Age 65 and over
- 30%
521 residents
402 residents
806 residents
1,542 residents
1,400 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
2
within 5 km straight-line
LITTLEBURY MEDICAL CENTRE
FISHPOND LANE, HOLBEACH, SPALDING, PE12 7DE
ODS code C83065
4.4 km
HOLBEACH MEDICAL CENTRE
PARK ROAD, HOLBEACH, HOLBEACH, SPALDING, SPALDING, PE12 7EE
ODS code C83028
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.8 miles
Cranesgate North
BCT · Whaplode St Catherine
- 0.8 miles
Demand Responsive Area
BCT · Whaplode St Catherine
- 0.8 miles
Rose Crescent
BCT · Whaplode St Catherine
- 0.8 miles
Cranesgate North
BCT · Whaplode St Catherine
- 0.8 miles
Rose Crescent
BCT · Whaplode St Catherine
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Holland 010B, 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
13,050 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
35 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 15 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.