Scunthorpe
TownTown in North Lincolnshire, Yorkshire and The Humber.
Scunthorpe is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Scunthorpe 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 97% of people in Scunthorpe live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Scunthorpe compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Scunthorpe safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Scunthorpe at a rate of 140.4 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, 970 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Scunthorpe.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (4,396), other crime (2,271) and shoplifting (1,481).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Scunthorpe was 133.0 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 Scunthorpe, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Scunthorpe has no single figure. Of its 51 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 12 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 6 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Scunthorpe
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Lincolnshire 005A | 2,249 | 243.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 81.1% |
| North Lincolnshire 005C | 1,592 | 62.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 84.4% |
| North Lincolnshire 007A | 2,557 | 81.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.5% |
| North Lincolnshire 007B | 1,765 | 163.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.8% |
| North Lincolnshire 007C | 1,585 | 44.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.4% |
| North Lincolnshire 007D | 1,585 | 316.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.7% |
| North Lincolnshire 008A | 1,842 | 160.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| North Lincolnshire 008B | 1,780 | 252.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.7% |
| North Lincolnshire 008C | 1,604 | 170.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.9% |
| North Lincolnshire 008D | 1,896 | 718.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.1% |
| North Lincolnshire 008E | 1,870 | 110.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.5% |
| North Lincolnshire 009A | 1,378 | 52.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| North Lincolnshire 009B | 1,613 | 70.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.9% |
| North Lincolnshire 009C | 1,652 | 132.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.0% |
| North Lincolnshire 009D | 1,652 | 107.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| North Lincolnshire 010A | 1,479 | 213.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.6% |
| North Lincolnshire 010B | 1,908 | 175.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| North Lincolnshire 010C | 1,513 | 109.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.4% |
| North Lincolnshire 010D | 1,540 | 95.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.5% |
| North Lincolnshire 012A | 1,536 | 199.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 95.2% |
| North Lincolnshire 012B | 1,191 | 57.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.5% |
| North Lincolnshire 012C | 1,432 | 65.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.9% |
| North Lincolnshire 012D | 1,633 | 52.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.9% |
| North Lincolnshire 014A | 1,494 | 146.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| North Lincolnshire 014B | 1,375 | 240.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| North Lincolnshire 014C | 1,440 | 70.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| North Lincolnshire 014D | 2,090 | 139.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.2% |
| North Lincolnshire 015A | 1,657 | 164.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.9% |
| North Lincolnshire 015C | 1,839 | 212.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| North Lincolnshire 015D | 1,295 | 94.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.8% |
| North Lincolnshire 015E | 1,382 | 157.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| North Lincolnshire 015F | 1,239 | 96.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| North Lincolnshire 015G | 1,413 | 228.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.8% |
| North Lincolnshire 016A | 1,617 | 215.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| North Lincolnshire 016B | 1,452 | 105.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| North Lincolnshire 016C | 1,433 | 94.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| North Lincolnshire 016D | 1,495 | 123.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.7% |
| North Lincolnshire 017A | 1,579 | 42.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.9% |
| North Lincolnshire 017B | 1,451 | 287.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.3% |
| North Lincolnshire 017C | 1,593 | 155.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.8% |
| North Lincolnshire 017D | 1,524 | 117.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| North Lincolnshire 018B | 1,766 | 105.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| North Lincolnshire 018C | 1,397 | 36.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| North Lincolnshire 018D | 1,284 | 45.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| North Lincolnshire 018E | 1,382 | 58.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| North Lincolnshire 018F | 1,386 | 30.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| North Lincolnshire 018G | 1,740 | 52.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| North Lincolnshire 019A | 1,398 | 79.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| North Lincolnshire 019B | 1,837 | 44.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.0% |
| North Lincolnshire 019C | 1,576 | 25.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| North Lincolnshire 019D | 1,810 | 41.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.8% |
Your MP
- Sir Nicholas DakinLabourMP for Scunthorpe
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 Scunthorpe3
Middle areas in Scunthorpe11
Towns near Scunthorpe6
Scunthorpe in brief
Scunthorpe is a town in North Lincolnshire, Yorkshire and The Humber.
About 82,531 people lived in Scunthorpe in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £153,000 in 2025 across 1,050 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 140.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Scunthorpe was £153,000 in 2025.
Scunthorpe had 81,286 usual residents at the census.
About 97% of people in Scunthorpe live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Scunthorpe, 98.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.