Stamford
TownTown in South Kesteven, East Midlands.
Stamford is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Stamford 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 100% of people in Stamford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Stamford compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Stamford safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Stamford at a rate of 75.0 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, 140 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Stamford.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (584), anti-social behaviour (384) and other crime (253).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Stamford was 70.7 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 Stamford, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Stamford has no single figure. Of its 13 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Stamford
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Kesteven 015A | 1,327 | 37.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 85.5% |
| South Kesteven 015B | 1,611 | 94.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 94.4% |
| South Kesteven 015C | 2,299 | 43.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 88.5% |
| South Kesteven 015D | 1,180 | 71.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.1% |
| South Kesteven 015E | 1,571 | 65.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.6% |
| South Kesteven 015F | 1,255 | 43.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.2% |
| South Kesteven 016A | 1,534 | 95.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.8% |
| South Kesteven 016B | 1,844 | 123.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 93.2% |
| South Kesteven 016C | 1,480 | 295.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 87.8% |
| South Kesteven 016D | 1,448 | 14.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.8% |
| South Kesteven 016E | 1,342 | 20.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 56.3% |
| South Kesteven 016F | 1,357 | 29.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 88.6% |
| South Kesteven 016G | 2,503 | 41.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 90.1% |
Your MP
- Alicia KearnsConservativeMP for Rutland and Stamford
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 Stamford1
Middle areas in Stamford2
Towns near Stamford6
Stamford in brief
Stamford is a town in South Kesteven, East Midlands.
About 20,937 people lived in Stamford in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £300,000 in 2025 across 386 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 75.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Stamford was £300,000 in 2025.
Stamford had 20,745 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Stamford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Stamford, 90.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.