Schools
4 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 1 secondary schools. Cowley Academy is the nearest published school at 1.5 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PE20 3BY
Five Village · Boston · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Five Village
- Local authority
- Boston
- Constituency
- Boston and Skegness
- Postcode district
- PE20
- Postcode sector
- PE20 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PE20 3BY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 January 2006
- Postcode area
- PE
- Postcode district
- PE20
- Postcode sector
- PE20 3
- Latitude
- 52.923980
- Longitude
- -0.181160
- British National Grid easting
- 522,372
- British National Grid northing
- 337,831
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Boston · E07000136
- Electoral ward
- Five Village · E05009624
- Parish or community
- E04005573
- Westminster constituency
- Boston and Skegness · E14001114
- Output area
- E00132011
- Lower layer super output area
- Boston 006A · E01026016
- Middle layer super output area
- Boston 006 · E02005422
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 PE20
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 4
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 1
- 2.4 km
Cowley Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 3.0 km
The Donington Cowley Endowed Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 3.0 km
Swineshead St Mary's Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 50
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 25
- Burglary 6
- Anti social behaviour 6
- Criminal damage and arson 5
- Vehicle crime 4
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PE20 3 residents
- 5,227
Age bands in PE20 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.8%
733 residents
470 residents
1,022 residents
1,358 residents
1,179 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
SWINESHEAD SURGERY
FAIRFAX HOUSE, 1 PACKHORSE LANE, SWINESHEAD, BOSTON, PE20 3JE
ODS code C83015
2.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Gauntlet Road
BCT · Bicker
- 0.0 miles
Gauntlet Road
BCT · Bicker
- 0.1 miles
Playground
BCT · Bicker
- 0.2 miles
War Memorial
BCT · Bicker
- 0.2 miles
War Memorial
BCT · Bicker
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Boston 006A, 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
12,052 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
50 published events cover 12 months, averaging 4.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 25 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.