NG21 postcode district: Rainworth and around, Nottinghamshire
NG21 is a postcode district in Nottinghamshire, with 585 postcodes in use in 2 sectors. It has postcodes in Rainworth, Edwinstowe, Forest Town and 2 more places. It is split between 3 councils: Newark and Sherwood (537 postcodes), Mansfield (40) and Gedling (8).
- Postcodes in use
- 585
- Sectors
- 2
- Councils
- 3 councils
- Places
- 5 places
Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.
Every postcode in NG21, by gigabit broadband
- No home or business can get gigabit: 56
- Some can get gigabit: 72
- Every home and business can get gigabit: 440
- Ofcom gives no figure: 17
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together
Of the 585 postcodes in NG21 that ONS places, 56 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 72 have some that can, 440 can all get it and 17 have no Ofcom figure.
Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 170 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 53.1447, longitude -1.1020. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre.
Postcodes without gigabit
56 postcodes here have no gigabit. These are the 12 first in postcode order.
Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together
- 6 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. NG21 0QX, is the one nearest the middle of them.
What broadband can you get in NG21?
Ofcom reports on 568 of the 585 postcodes in NG21. At 440 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 4 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).
Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.
Is NG21 at risk of flooding?
11 of the 585 postcodes in NG21 have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 28 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.
High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.
Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.
Source: Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026.
What do homes sell for in NG21?
Homes in NG21 sold for a typical £210,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 326 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £225,000 from 491 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £305,000 122 sales
- Semi-detached £189,950 139 sales
- Terraced £165,000 59 sales
- Flat or maisonette £99,600 6 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.
Postcodes in NG21
Pick a sector, then a postcode. A sector is the district plus the next digit.
UK postcode format explainedPlaces in NG21
Towns and villages with postcodes in NG21, and how many each has here.
Who covers NG21
How many of the district's postcodes in use fall under each council, constituency and police force area.
Councils
What council am I in?Constituencies
- Sherwood Forest545
- Mansfield40
Police force areas
- Nottinghamshire585
Next to NG21
"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after NG21 in the NG area.
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Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- Environment Agency flood risk
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0.
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