Grimsby

Town

Town in North East Lincolnshire, Yorkshire and The Humber.

Grimsby is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Grimsby 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.

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Radon Affected Area by town

Worked out by Open Index · 2022

Under 1%90% or more

About 0% of people in Grimsby live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Median sale price

£141,250

29th cheapest of 1,092

Worked out by Open Index

Population

85,915

125th most populated of 1,209

ONS Census 2021 · 2021

Gigabit broadband coverage

97.2%

UK 87.8%

Ofcom · Jan 2026

How Grimsby compares

Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.

GrimsbyMiddle

Median sale price114 towns, Yorkshire and The Humber · 2025

£141,2503rd cheapest

Population114 towns, Yorkshire and The Humber · 2021

85,91510th most populated

People in radon Affected Area squares114 towns, Yorkshire and The Humber · 2022

0%joint fewest people in radon Affected Areas

Gigabit broadband coverage114 towns, Yorkshire and The Humber · Jan 2026

97.2%joint 44th highest

Is Grimsby safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Grimsby at a rate of 166.4 per 1,000 people.

That compares with 108.4 per 1,000 people across Yorkshire and The Humber.

Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.

In August 2026 alone, 1,265 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Grimsby.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (5,424), other crime (2,803) and shoplifting (1,690).

A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Grimsby was 168.0 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 Grimsby, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Grimsby has no single figure. Of its 58 neighbourhoods with a rank:
Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 22 neighbourhoods
Decile 2: 6 neighbourhoods
Decile 3: 5 neighbourhoods
Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
Decile 8: 7 neighbourhoods
Decile 9: 4 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 Grimsby

Name	People (census)	Recorded crime per 1,000	Deprivation decile	Gigabit broadband
North East Lincolnshire 002A	1,245	402.9 per 1,000	1	82.4%
North East Lincolnshire 002D	1,658	233.3 per 1,000	1	98.2%
North East Lincolnshire 002E	2,131	532.9 per 1,000	1	95.8%
North East Lincolnshire 003A	1,294	206.6 per 1,000	1	97.8%
North East Lincolnshire 003B	1,470	169.2 per 1,000	2	98.8%
North East Lincolnshire 003C	1,571	155.9 per 1,000	1	99.4%
North East Lincolnshire 003D	1,677	1,314.9 per 1,000	1	65.0%
North East Lincolnshire 003E	1,532	331.5 per 1,000	1	96.4%
North East Lincolnshire 004A	1,420	251.0 per 1,000	1	95.7%
North East Lincolnshire 004B	1,196	48.3 per 1,000	8	99.8%
North East Lincolnshire 004C	1,676	65.6 per 1,000	6	96.6%
North East Lincolnshire 004D	1,309	64.8 per 1,000	9	100.0%
North East Lincolnshire 006A	1,320	227.9 per 1,000	1	100.0%
North East Lincolnshire 006B	1,426	228.6 per 1,000	1	99.8%
North East Lincolnshire 006C	1,519	159.3 per 1,000	1	100.0%
North East Lincolnshire 006D	1,370	63.3 per 1,000	2	100.0%
North East Lincolnshire 008A	1,317	221.8 per 1,000	2	96.6%
North East Lincolnshire 008B	1,560	81.2 per 1,000	7	100.0%
North East Lincolnshire 008C	1,534	104.9 per 1,000	3	100.0%
North East Lincolnshire 008D	1,348	141.3 per 1,000	3	99.4%
North East Lincolnshire 009A	1,363	183.0 per 1,000	2	96.3%
North East Lincolnshire 009D	1,351	120.3 per 1,000	6	99.2%
North East Lincolnshire 009E	2,819	59.0 per 1,000	5	100.0%
North East Lincolnshire 011A	1,499	171.6 per 1,000	1	99.5%
North East Lincolnshire 011B	1,304	222.9 per 1,000	1	99.1%
North East Lincolnshire 011C	1,514	126.9 per 1,000	1	100.0%
North East Lincolnshire 011D	1,290	234.2 per 1,000	1	97.3%
North East Lincolnshire 012A	1,356	126.0 per 1,000	4	99.8%
North East Lincolnshire 012B	1,372	88.2 per 1,000	6	99.8%
North East Lincolnshire 012C	1,265	93.3 per 1,000	8	99.5%
North East Lincolnshire 012D	1,868	176.1 per 1,000	3	98.9%
North East Lincolnshire 013A	1,091	34.2 per 1,000	9	100.0%
North East Lincolnshire 013B	1,225	19.8 per 1,000	8	100.0%
North East Lincolnshire 013C	1,511	57.1 per 1,000	4	99.7%
North East Lincolnshire 013D	1,489	51.4 per 1,000	8	99.4%
North East Lincolnshire 013E	1,577	88.3 per 1,000	2	99.6%
North East Lincolnshire 015A	1,369	77.3 per 1,000	1	100.0%
North East Lincolnshire 015B	1,318	102.4 per 1,000	4	98.7%
North East Lincolnshire 015C	1,412	170.8 per 1,000	5	99.8%
North East Lincolnshire 015D	1,353	165.0 per 1,000	1	99.8%
North East Lincolnshire 016A	1,483	252.0 per 1,000	1	100.0%
North East Lincolnshire 016B	1,447	124.5 per 1,000	7	99.5%
North East Lincolnshire 016C	1,486	144.1 per 1,000	5	99.4%
North East Lincolnshire 016D	1,483	82.8 per 1,000	3	100.0%
North East Lincolnshire 016E	1,473	122.7 per 1,000	7	98.3%
North East Lincolnshire 016F	1,550	72.3 per 1,000	8	99.7%
North East Lincolnshire 019A	1,386	125.9 per 1,000	2	99.5%
North East Lincolnshire 019B	1,382	275.9 per 1,000	1	99.4%
North East Lincolnshire 019C	1,393	128.4 per 1,000	1	98.6%
North East Lincolnshire 019D	1,433	134.3 per 1,000	1	100.0%
North East Lincolnshire 019E	1,381	103.6 per 1,000	1	100.0%
North East Lincolnshire 021A	1,584	24.3 per 1,000	8	99.5%
North East Lincolnshire 021C	1,500	71.3 per 1,000	10	99.2%
North East Lincolnshire 021D	1,452	96.8 per 1,000	3	98.8%
North East Lincolnshire 021E	1,400	36.3 per 1,000	8	99.9%
North East Lincolnshire 021F	1,857	54.3 per 1,000	10	99.6%
North East Lincolnshire 021G	2,037	81.2 per 1,000	9	99.0%
North East Lincolnshire 022E	1,508	29.6 per 1,000	9	99.0%

Your MP

Melanie OnnLabourMP for Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes

As of 18 October 2026, from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.

Council1

North East Lincolnshire

Postcode districts covering Grimsby5

Middle areas in Grimsby13

Towns near Grimsby6

Grimsby in brief

Grimsby is a town in North East Lincolnshire, Yorkshire and The Humber.

About 87,480 people lived in Grimsby in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £141,250 in 2025 across 1,140 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 166.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).

The median price paid for a home in Grimsby was £141,250 in 2025.

Grimsby had 85,915 usual residents at the census.

About 0% of people in Grimsby live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Grimsby, 97.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.