Boston
TownTown in Boston, East Midlands.
Boston is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Boston add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Boston live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Boston compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Boston safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Boston at a rate of 133.0 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 93.5 per 1,000 people across East Midlands.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 527 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Boston.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,090), anti-social behaviour (1,331) and other crime (926).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Boston was 139.0 per 1,000 people.
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Deprivation in Boston, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Boston has no single figure. Of its 26 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Boston
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boston 002A | 1,839 | 109.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 85.9% |
| Boston 002C | 2,612 | 136.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.5% |
| Boston 002D | 1,947 | 209.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.1% |
| Boston 002E | 1,594 | 131.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 93.3% |
| Boston 002F | 1,391 | 53.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.0% |
| Boston 002G | 1,629 | 73.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.3% |
| Boston 003B | 1,778 | 152.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 80.4% |
| Boston 003C | 2,411 | 316.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 82.2% |
| Boston 003D | 1,585 | 393.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 88.4% |
| Boston 003E | 1,366 | 529.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 71.1% |
| Boston 003F | 1,594 | 185.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 80.5% |
| Boston 004A | 1,141 | 37.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 87.3% |
| Boston 004B | 1,676 | 70.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.5% |
| Boston 004C | 2,280 | 141.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.2% |
| Boston 004D | 1,872 | 52.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 89.8% |
| Boston 004E | 1,890 | 81.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 92.6% |
| Boston 007E | 1,382 | 115.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 83.3% |
| Boston 008A | 1,449 | 110.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 91.6% |
| Boston 008C | 2,304 | 34.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 79.4% |
| Boston 008D | 1,439 | 56.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 91.9% |
| Boston 008E | 1,709 | 119.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 73.4% |
| Boston 009B | 1,641 | 109.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Boston 009C | 2,517 | 29.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.7% |
| Boston 009D | 1,194 | 75.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 62.1% |
| Boston 009E | 1,546 | 149.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 93.3% |
| Boston 009F | 1,457 | 96.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 89.9% |
Your MP
- Richard TiceReform UKMP for Boston and Skegness
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Boston1
Middle areas in Boston5
Towns near Boston5
Boston in brief
Boston is a town in Boston, East Midlands.
About 45,704 people lived in Boston in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £189,950 in 2025 across 547 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 133.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Boston was £189,950 in 2025.
Boston had 45,347 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Boston live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Boston, 88.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.