Gainsborough
TownTown in West Lindsey, East Midlands.
Gainsborough is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Gainsborough 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 24% of people in Gainsborough live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Gainsborough compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Gainsborough safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Gainsborough at a rate of 175.4 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, 318 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Gainsborough.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,469), anti-social behaviour (869) and other crime (522).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Gainsborough was 187.2 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 Gainsborough, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Gainsborough has no single figure. Of its 12 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Gainsborough
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Lindsey 002A | 2,559 | 86.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 86.1% |
| West Lindsey 002F | 1,372 | 60.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 95.6% |
| West Lindsey 004A | 1,726 | 131.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.9% |
| West Lindsey 004B | 1,839 | 103.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.9% |
| West Lindsey 004C | 1,721 | 112.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.7% |
| West Lindsey 004D | 1,773 | 199.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.0% |
| West Lindsey 004E | 1,298 | 301.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.1% |
| West Lindsey 004F | 2,143 | 553.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 86.2% |
| West Lindsey 006A | 1,527 | 106.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.0% |
| West Lindsey 006B | 2,048 | 125.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 88.5% |
| West Lindsey 006C | 1,692 | 181.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.1% |
| West Lindsey 006D | 2,210 | 106.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.8% |
Your MP
- Sir Edward LeighConservativeMP for Gainsborough
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 Gainsborough1
Middle areas in Gainsborough2
Towns near Gainsborough6
Gainsborough in brief
Gainsborough is a town in West Lindsey, East Midlands.
About 22,857 people lived in Gainsborough in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £150,000 in 2025 across 388 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 175.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Gainsborough was £150,000 in 2025.
Gainsborough had 21,899 usual residents at the census.
About 24% of people in Gainsborough live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Gainsborough, 94.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.