Schools
21 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 3 secondary schools. Boston College is the nearest published school at 301 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PE21 6DE
Skirbeck · Boston · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Skirbeck
- Local authority
- Boston
- Constituency
- Boston and Skegness
- Postcode district
- PE21
- Postcode sector
- PE21 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PE21 6DE
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1991
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- PE
- Postcode district
- PE21
- Postcode sector
- PE21 6
- Latitude
- 52.971439
- Longitude
- -0.017910
- British National Grid easting
- 533,200
- British National Grid northing
- 343,400
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Boston · E07000136
- Electoral ward
- Skirbeck · E05009628
- Parish or community
- E43000109
- Westminster constituency
- Boston and Skegness · E14001114
- Output area
- E00132062
- Lower layer super output area
- Boston 003C · E01026025
- Middle layer super output area
- Boston 003 · E02005419
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 PE21
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 21
- Primary
- 12
- Secondary
- 3
- 301 m
Boston College
Further education
- 391 m
The Boston Grammar School
Academy converter
- 473 m
Boston Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,264
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,462
- Shoplifting 670
- Anti social behaviour 659
- Criminal damage and arson 300
- Public order 237
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PE21 6 residents
- 3,334
Age bands in PE21 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 13.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 35.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 9.3%
514 residents
417 residents
1,074 residents
772 residents
286 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
4
within 5 km straight-line
GREYFRIARS SURGERY
SOUTH SQUARE, BOSTON, PE21 6JU
ODS code C83059
525 m
LIQUORPOND SURGERY
10 LIQUORPOND STREET, BOSTON, PE21 8UE
ODS code C83004
586 m
PARKSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
TAWNEY STREET, BOSTON, PE21 6PF
ODS code C83010
1.2 km
THE SIDINGS MEDICAL PRACTICE
SLEAFORD ROAD, BOSTON, PE21 8EG
ODS code C83060
1.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Boston College
BCT · Boston
- 0.1 miles
Boston College
BCT · Boston
- 0.1 miles
Boston College Car Park
BCT · Boston
- 0.2 miles
Grammar School
BCT · Boston
- 0.2 miles
Sorting Office
BCT · Boston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Boston 003C, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
4,228 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
4,264 published events cover 12 months, averaging 355.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,462 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.