Louth
TownTown in East Lindsey, East Midlands.
Louth is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Louth 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 90% of people in Louth live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Louth compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Louth safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Louth at a rate of 109.9 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, 157 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Louth.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (708), anti-social behaviour (593) and other crime (245).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Louth was 110.6 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 Louth, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Louth has no single figure. Of its 11 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Louth
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Lindsey 003A | 1,524 | 128.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 43.9% |
| East Lindsey 003B | 1,091 | 137.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 41.6% |
| East Lindsey 003C | 1,492 | 108.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.6% |
| East Lindsey 003D | 1,396 | 40.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 94.6% |
| East Lindsey 003E | 1,352 | 74.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.6% |
| East Lindsey 003F | 1,149 | 76.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.7% |
| East Lindsey 003G | 2,475 | 99.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.0% |
| East Lindsey 004A | 2,329 | 211.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 78.2% |
| East Lindsey 004C | 2,005 | 59.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 94.4% |
| East Lindsey 004D | 1,118 | 137.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 69.6% |
| East Lindsey 004E | 1,448 | 112.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 90.1% |
Your MP
- Victoria AtkinsConservativeMP for Louth and Horncastle
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 Louth1
Middle areas in Louth2
Towns near Louth6
Louth in brief
Louth is a town in East Lindsey, East Midlands.
About 18,220 people lived in Louth in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £220,000 in 2025 across 374 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 109.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Louth was £220,000 in 2025.
Louth had 17,415 usual residents at the census.
About 90% of people in Louth live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Louth, 82.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.