Grantham
TownTown in South Kesteven, East Midlands.
Grantham is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Grantham 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 93% of people in Grantham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Grantham compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Grantham safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Grantham at a rate of 114.0 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, 479 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Grantham.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,740), anti-social behaviour (1,128) and other crime (837).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Grantham was 108.3 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 Grantham, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Grantham has no single figure. Of its 27 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Grantham
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Kesteven 003A | 1,602 | 67.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.9% |
| South Kesteven 003B | 1,501 | 142.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| South Kesteven 003C | 1,405 | 72.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.9% |
| South Kesteven 003D | 1,524 | 120.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| South Kesteven 003E | 1,304 | 51.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.1% |
| South Kesteven 003F | 1,566 | 91.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 85.4% |
| South Kesteven 003G | 1,123 | 16.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.6% |
| South Kesteven 004B | 1,394 | 61.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 93.4% |
| South Kesteven 004C | 1,220 | 38.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| South Kesteven 004D | 1,967 | 572.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 54.5% |
| South Kesteven 004E | 2,069 | 29.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.3% |
| South Kesteven 004F | 1,542 | 33.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.9% |
| South Kesteven 004G | 1,671 | 24.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
| South Kesteven 005A | 1,668 | 189.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 91.6% |
| South Kesteven 005B | 1,595 | 74.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 95.9% |
| South Kesteven 005C | 1,162 | 95.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| South Kesteven 005D | 1,646 | 51.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 93.0% |
| South Kesteven 005E | 1,370 | 159.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.3% |
| South Kesteven 006A | 2,318 | 175.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 84.5% |
| South Kesteven 006B | 2,203 | 91.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 86.8% |
| South Kesteven 006C | 2,620 | 114.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 77.1% |
| South Kesteven 006D | 1,834 | 251.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 86.4% |
| South Kesteven 006E | 1,491 | 116.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 96.1% |
| South Kesteven 006F | 1,801 | 112.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 90.6% |
| South Kesteven 007A | 1,380 | 47.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.7% |
| South Kesteven 007B | 2,040 | 50.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 80.9% |
| South Kesteven 007C | 1,601 | 36.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
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 Grantham1
Middle areas in Grantham5
Towns near Grantham6
Grantham in brief
Grantham is a town in South Kesteven, East Midlands.
About 45,510 people lived in Grantham in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £205,000 in 2025 across 639 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 114.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Grantham was £205,000 in 2025.
Grantham had 44,906 usual residents at the census.
About 93% of people in Grantham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Grantham, 90.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.