Schools
19 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 3 secondary schools. Boston West Academy is the nearest published school at 59 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PE21 7FA
West · Boston · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PE21 7FA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 May 2016
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PE
- Postcode district
- PE21
- Postcode sector
- PE21 7
- Latitude
- 52.977084
- Longitude
- -0.052104
- British National Grid easting
- 530,887
- British National Grid northing
- 343,965
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Boston · E07000136
- Electoral ward
- West · E05009633
- Parish or community
- E43000109
- Westminster constituency
- Boston and Skegness · E14001114
- Output area
- E00185403
- Lower layer super output area
- Boston 009C · E01026035
- Middle layer super output area
- Boston 009 · E02006865
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
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Property
8 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 5, Oxford Gardens, Boston, PE21 7FA | 20 September 2019 | £265,000 |
| 5, Oxford Gardens, Boston, PE21 7FA | 15 December 2017 | £259,000 |
| 6, Oxford Gardens, Boston, PE21 7FA | 16 June 2017 | £250,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 19
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 3
- 59 m
Boston West Academy
Academy converter
- 740 m
Bridge House Independent School
Other independent special school
- 1.1 km
Staniland Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,944
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 725
- Anti social behaviour 319
- Shoplifting 264
- Criminal damage and arson 166
- Public order 96
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 13
- Postcode households
- 7
- Residents per household
- 1.9
- PE21 7 residents
- 10,164
5 female, 8 male
Age bands in PE21 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.3%
1,825 residents
1,032 residents
2,608 residents
2,557 residents
2,037 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider PE21 7 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
4
within 5 km
THE SIDINGS MEDICAL PRACTICE
SLEAFORD ROAD, BOSTON, PE21 8EG
ODS code C83060
1.3 km
LIQUORPOND SURGERY
10 LIQUORPOND STREET, BOSTON, PE21 8UE
ODS code C83004
1.8 km
GREYFRIARS SURGERY
SOUTH SQUARE, BOSTON, PE21 6JU
ODS code C83059
2.0 km
PARKSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
TAWNEY STREET, BOSTON, PE21 6PF
ODS code C83010
2.1 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Footpath to Arundel Crescent
BCT · Boston
- 0.2 miles
Footpath to Arundel Crescent
BCT · Boston
- 0.2 miles
Rosebery Avenue
BCT · Boston
- 0.2 miles
Rosebery Avenue
BCT · Boston
- 0.3 miles
Chester Way
BCT · Boston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Boston 009C, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
27,911 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 7
- 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
Recorded crime
1,944 published events cover 12 months, averaging 162 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 725 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.