Bourne
TownTown in South Kesteven, East Midlands.
Bourne is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Bourne 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.
Gigabit coverage by town
Connected Nations (Ofcom) · January 2026
In Bourne, 96.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How Bourne compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Bourne safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Bourne at a rate of 63.6 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, 147 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Bourne.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (458), anti-social behaviour (272) and other crime (162).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Bourne was 57.4 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 Bourne, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Bourne has no single figure. Of its 12 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Bourne
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Kesteven 010A | 1,675 | 175.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.3% |
| South Kesteven 010B | 1,455 | 20.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 93.6% |
| South Kesteven 010D | 1,144 | 47.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 88.5% |
| South Kesteven 010E | 1,315 | 27.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 91.7% |
| South Kesteven 010F | 1,439 | 76.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.0% |
| South Kesteven 010G | 1,400 | 34.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.6% |
| South Kesteven 011B | 1,514 | 22.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 83.5% |
| South Kesteven 011C | 1,515 | 53.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| South Kesteven 011D | 2,108 | 120.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.5% |
| South Kesteven 011E | 1,310 | 55.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.6% |
| South Kesteven 011F | 1,864 | 47.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.1% |
| South Kesteven 011G | 1,250 | 18.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.4% |
Your MP
- Gareth DaviesConservativeMP for Grantham and Bourne
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 Bourne1
Middle areas in Bourne2
Towns near Bourne6
Bourne in brief
Bourne is a town in South Kesteven, East Midlands.
About 19,037 people lived in Bourne in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £245,000 in 2025 across 435 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 63.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Bourne was £245,000 in 2025.
Bourne had 17,495 usual residents at the census.
In Bourne, 96.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Bourne, 2.5% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.