Spalding
TownTown in South Holland, East Midlands.
Spalding is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Spalding 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 0% of people in Spalding live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Spalding compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Spalding safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Spalding at a rate of 96.9 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, 257 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Spalding.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,170), anti-social behaviour (747) and other crime (418).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Spalding was 96.4 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 Spalding, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Spalding has no single figure. Of its 18 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Spalding
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Holland 006B | 2,274 | 130.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 69.6% |
| South Holland 006C | 1,764 | 47.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| South Holland 006E | 2,714 | 29.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| South Holland 006F | 1,479 | 512.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 68.0% |
| South Holland 006G | 1,369 | 52.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.3% |
| South Holland 006H | 1,543 | 78.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| South Holland 006I | 1,786 | 44.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| South Holland 007A | 1,974 | 100.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 80.7% |
| South Holland 007B | 2,125 | 95.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 84.4% |
| South Holland 007C | 1,873 | 175.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 68.1% |
| South Holland 007D | 1,772 | 94.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 85.5% |
| South Holland 007E | 1,381 | 135.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 94.4% |
| South Holland 009A | 1,464 | 36.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 83.5% |
| South Holland 009B | 2,395 | 41.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.4% |
| South Holland 009C | 1,649 | 71.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| South Holland 009D | 1,440 | 63.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 89.7% |
| South Holland 009F | 1,432 | 51.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| South Holland 009G | 1,422 | 77.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Sir John HayesConservativeMP for South Holland and The Deepings
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 Spalding1
Middle areas in Spalding3
Towns near Spalding6
Spalding in brief
Spalding is a town in South Holland, East Midlands.
About 31,290 people lived in Spalding in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £207,250 in 2025 across 454 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 96.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Spalding was £207,250 in 2025.
Spalding had 30,552 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Spalding live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Spalding, 89.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.