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Sources
Price per square metre. Rolling 12-month median achieved price per square metre of standard market sales (Price Paid category A), using each home's EPC floor area.
HM Land Registry Price Paid + EPC · 2026-08
Areas with fewer than 20 qualifying sales in the 12 months fall back to their MSOA, then council.
Excludes repossessions, buy-to-let and company sales (category B) and 'other' property types.
Sales without an EPC floor area, under £20,000, or outside 15–1,000 m² or £500–£40,000/m² are excluded.
Land Registry registers sales with a lag of up to a few months, so the latest window is still filling.
Outside London, sales are placed in their postcode's area (ONSPD) and linked to EPC floor areas by address; before 2023 they show one value a year. London's figures come from its address-level build.
49 / 1,000 · East Midlands 93.7Safer than 55% of East MidlandsOn map ↗
Top offences per 1,000 a year · Sleaford WestEast Midlands
Violence and sexual offences26.4East Midlands 34.1
Anti-social behaviour14.2East Midlands 15.9
Other theft4.7East Midlands 5.6
Public order3.7East Midlands ▼ 6.8
Drugs3.2East Midlands 2.7
Recorded crime history · this neighbourhood · 2026-08
60.654.849
2025-092026-08
Trend
−19.1% over 11 months
Road casualties ≤ 500 m
0 in 5 years · 0 children · 0 serious or fatal · On map
Who was hurt
0 pedestrians · 0 cyclists
Per year
0 · 0 · 0 · 0 · 0 (2021–2025)
Period
12 months to Aug 2026
Sources
Crime is counted where it happens, so busy shopping and night-life streets score high.
Rates are per 1,000 residents over 12 months; places with few residents and many visitors read high.
Police.uk open data: the police forces of England and Wales. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Road casualties: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19), OGL v3.0. Many slight injuries are never reported to the police.
Recorded crime. Police-recorded offences in the 12 months to the selected month, per 1,000 residents (every police force in England). Excludes anti-social behaviour and British Transport Police.
Police.uk open data · 2026-08
Rolling 12 months: each month shows offences recorded in the year to that month.
Published crime coordinates are deliberately anonymised and never identify a building.
British Transport Police records are excluded.
Anti-social behaviour is excluded from the rate (police.uk lists it separately).
Population denominator: ONS mid-2024 LSOA estimates; council/MSOA rates use summed counts and populations.
City of London and West End rates use resident population; daytime footfall is far higher.
police.uk places each crime at an anonymous snap point; an LSOA with fewer than 20 offences in 12 months and under a tenth of the crimes its MSOA rate predicts shows the MSOA rate instead (marked fallback).
Percentiles compare each area with the others of its region.
No figure where the police force did not publish every month of the 12 (latest window: Greater Manchester, Northumbria, Gloucestershire).
State schools within 1.5 km, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Not a catchment: being close does not guarantee a place.
Top 10%: the school is in the top tenth of East Midlands's schools on its latest published results and rated Good or better.
Older Ofsted grades and the new report cards are not comparable; each badge says which it is.
Kids, each ranked against East Midlands's areas: nurseries and pre-schools within 1 km rated well by Ofsted (Good or Outstanding, or a report card with no area below Expected standard; childminders are not included), Ofsted Early Years management information, Open Government Licence v3.0. Road safety: pedestrians and cyclists hurt within 500 m in police-reported collisions over five years, DfT road safety data (STATS19), Open Government Licence v3.0. Cycle lanes: km of protected track and TfL Cycleway within 1 km, TfL Cycling Infrastructure Database (surveyed 2017–19) and Cycleways, Powered by TfL Open Data (London only).
Shops, pubs, cafés, pharmacies and GP surgeries mapped in OpenStreetMap. Volunteers keep it up to date, so a new or closed place may be missing.
Food hygiene: cafés, restaurants, takeaways and pubs within 800 m with a published rating; exempt places and those awaiting inspection are left out. Food Standards Agency, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Straight-line distances from the middle of the area.
Places come from OpenStreetMap, which volunteers keep up to date; a new shop or a closed pub may be missing.
Distances are straight lines from the area's centre or the home, not walking routes.
Nature: the score combines green land, street trees per hectare and the distance to the nearest nature reserve or SSSI, each ranked among East Midlands neighbourhoods.
Wildlife: species people recorded within 1 km (birds, mammals, amphibians). Records follow where people look, so a short list can mean few observers, not few animals.
Local Nature Reserves and Sites of Special Scientific Interest only; council Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation are not openly licensed and are not included.
Sleaford WestEast MidlandsChip = points against East Midlands, when 5 or more
Type of home
Detached house: 55% here, 33% in East Midlands
Detached house55%+22
Semi-detached house34%
Terraced house9%−10
Flat in a purpose-built block2%−7
Other<1%
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Sources
Shares of this neighbourhood's households, 2021 Census; the tick on each row is East Midlands. Neutral context, never rated.
ONS Census 2021 tables TS003, TS004, TS007A, TS012, TS013, TS015, TS021, TS022, TS028, TS030, TS031, TS044, TS054, TS063, TS066, TS067 via Nomis; country of birth (190 categories) and main language (26) via the ONS API. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ONS mid-2024 Lower layer Super Output Area population estimates (revised November 2025). Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
People
Census 2021
1,897 people (2024)
581 people / km² · 1.8× East Midlands's density
763 households
Deprivation: among East Midlands's least deprived 40%
Sleaford WestEast MidlandsChip = points against East Midlands, when 5 or more
Household
Couple with children30%
Couple, no children29%
One person25%
Lone parent13%
Other, including shared3%
Age
0 to 1420%
15 to 2411%
25 to 4424%
45 to 6429%
65 and over16%
Ethnic group
White British: 90% here, 80% in East Midlands
White British90%+10
Other White7%
Chinese<1%
Other mixed background<1%
Other2%−12
Country of birth
United Kingdom91%
Joined the EU in 2004 (Poland, Lithuania, …)4%
EU members before 2004 (France, Germany, Italy, …)2%
Middle East and Asia1%
Other2%
Religion
Christian54%+9
No religion41%
Chose not to answer4%
Hindu<1%
Other<1%−6
Sources
Shares of this neighbourhood's residents and households, 2021 Census; the tick on each row is East Midlands. Neutral context, never rated.
People per km²: mid-2024 population estimate over the area's land.
ONS Census 2021 tables TS003, TS004, TS007A, TS012, TS013, TS015, TS021, TS022, TS028, TS030, TS031, TS044, TS054, TS063, TS066, TS067 via Nomis; country of birth (190 categories) and main language (26) via the ONS API. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ONS mid-2024 Lower layer Super Output Area population estimates (revised November 2025). Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Deprivation is the official Index of Multiple Deprivation for the area, not its people.
Living costs
Band D £2,338North Kesteven 2026-27
Council tax 2026-27
Band D £2,338 · A £1,559 … H £4,676
Band D
£2,337.81 = North Kesteven £205.67 + County £1,673.01 + Police £333.09 + Parish £126.04
Renting, North Kesteven average
1 bed £580 · 2 bed £758 · 3 bed £922 · 4+ bed £1,308
Councillor data from Democracy Club (democracyclub.org.uk), CC BY 4.0.
Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
MP data from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.
Source: Office for National Statistics, Price Index of Private Rents. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.