Sleaford
TownTown in North Kesteven, East Midlands.
Sleaford is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Sleaford 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 87% of people in Sleaford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Sleaford compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Sleaford safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Sleaford at a rate of 85.8 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, 163 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Sleaford.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (593), anti-social behaviour (343) and other crime (252).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Sleaford was 94.3 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 Sleaford, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Sleaford has no single figure. Of its 10 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- 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 Sleaford
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Kesteven 010A | 1,553 | 263.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 71.6% |
| North Kesteven 010B | 1,813 | 78.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 92.6% |
| North Kesteven 010C | 2,693 | 74.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.8% |
| North Kesteven 010D | 2,110 | 119.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 92.0% |
| North Kesteven 010E | 1,666 | 213.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.3% |
| North Kesteven 011A | 1,735 | 45.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| North Kesteven 011B | 1,896 | 64.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.3% |
| North Kesteven 011C | 1,707 | 13.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| North Kesteven 011E | 1,144 | 67.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 88.9% |
| North Kesteven 011G | 1,503 | 21.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.9% |
Your MP
- Dr Caroline JohnsonConservativeMP for Sleaford and North Hykeham
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 Sleaford1
Middle areas in Sleaford2
Towns near Sleaford6
Sleaford in brief
Sleaford is a town in North Kesteven, East Midlands.
About 18,923 people lived in Sleaford in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £218,250 in 2025 across 352 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 85.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Sleaford was £218,250 in 2025.
Sleaford had 18,028 usual residents at the census.
About 87% of people in Sleaford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Sleaford, 94.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.