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North Hykeham

Town

Town in North Kesteven, East Midlands.

North Hykeham is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for North Hykeham 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 North Hykeham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Median sale price
£230,000
Joint 381st cheapest of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
16,855
586th least populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
0%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
98.8%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026

How North Hykeham compares

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

North HykehamMiddle
Median sale price105 towns, East Midlands · 2025
Median sale price: every town in East Midlands105 areas from £150,000 to £399,000. The middle area is £237,500. North Hykeham is £230,000.
£230,00050th cheapest
Population105 towns, East Midlands · 2021
Population: every town in East Midlands105 areas from 7,633 to 406,612. The middle area is 16,271. North Hykeham is 16,855.
16,85552nd most populated
People in radon Affected Area squares105 towns, East Midlands · 2022
People in radon Affected Area squares: every town in East Midlands105 areas from 0.0% to 100.0%. The middle area is 60.0%. North Hykeham is 0.0%.
0%joint fewest people in radon Affected Areas
Gigabit broadband coverage105 towns, East Midlands · Jan 2026
Gigabit broadband coverage: every town in East Midlands105 areas from 58.9% to 99.5%. The middle area is 95.9%. North Hykeham is 98.8%.
98.8%joint 7th highest

Is North Hykeham safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in North Hykeham at a rate of 64.0 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, 98 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in North Hykeham.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (411), anti-social behaviour (297) and other crime (148).

A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in North Hykeham was 55.8 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 North Hykeham, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so North Hykeham has no single figure. Of its 10 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 9: 3 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 North Hykeham

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
North Kesteven 013A2,23039.1 per 1,000799.4%
North Kesteven 013B1,88373.2 per 1,000697.9%
North Kesteven 013C2,08731.0 per 1,000996.2%
North Kesteven 013D2,49946.4 per 1,0001099.0%
North Kesteven 014A1,10261.2 per 1,0008100.0%
North Kesteven 014B1,04456.5 per 1,0001099.8%
North Kesteven 014C1,148134.9 per 1,000899.4%
North Kesteven 014D1,13948.9 per 1,0009100.0%
North Kesteven 014E2,24479.9 per 1,000998.1%
North Kesteven 014F1,471112.3 per 1,000699.6%

Your MP

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 North Hykeham1

Middle areas in North Hykeham2

Towns near North Hykeham6

North Hykeham in brief

North Hykeham is a town in North Kesteven, East Midlands.

About 16,987 people lived in North Hykeham in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £230,000 in 2025 across 296 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 64.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).

The median price paid for a home in North Hykeham was £230,000 in 2025.

North Hykeham had 16,855 usual residents at the census.

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

In North Hykeham, 98.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.