Schools
21 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 3 secondary schools. Tower Road Academy is the nearest published school at 451 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PE21 9BX
Witham · Boston · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Witham
- Local authority
- Boston
- Constituency
- Boston and Skegness
- Postcode district
- PE21
- Postcode sector
- PE21 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PE21 9BX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PE
- Postcode district
- PE21
- Postcode sector
- PE21 9
- Latitude
- 52.983911
- Longitude
- -0.019082
- British National Grid easting
- 533,083
- British National Grid northing
- 344,785
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Boston · E07000136
- Electoral ward
- Witham · E05009634
- Parish or community
- E43000109
- Westminster constituency
- Boston and Skegness · E14001114
- Output area
- E00132140
- Lower layer super output area
- Boston 003D · E01026036
- 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
- 451 m
Tower Road Academy
Academy converter
- 487 m
Saint Mary's RC Primary Academy Boston
Academy converter
- 553 m
Conquest School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,244
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,506
- Anti social behaviour 643
- Shoplifting 600
- Criminal damage and arson 311
- Public order 239
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PE21 9 residents
- 9,494
Age bands in PE21 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.9%
1,561 residents
923 residents
2,373 residents
2,643 residents
2,228 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.
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+
- 25%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 25%
- Gigabit-capable
- 25%
- 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 straight-line
PARKSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
TAWNEY STREET, BOSTON, PE21 6PF
ODS code C83010
327 m
GREYFRIARS SURGERY
SOUTH SQUARE, BOSTON, PE21 6JU
ODS code C83059
1.0 km
LIQUORPOND SURGERY
10 LIQUORPOND STREET, BOSTON, PE21 8UE
ODS code C83004
1.2 km
THE SIDINGS MEDICAL PRACTICE
SLEAFORD ROAD, BOSTON, PE21 8EG
ODS code C83060
1.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Hartley Street
BCT · Boston
- 0.1 miles
Hartley Street
BCT · Boston
- 0.1 miles
Bargate Bridge
BCT · Boston
- 0.1 miles
Bargate Bridge
BCT · Boston
- 0.2 miles
Parkside Surgery
BCT · Boston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Boston 003D, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
2,409 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
- 1
- 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
4,244 published events cover 12 months, averaging 353.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,506 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.