Neighbourhoods in North Kesteven
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13 neighbourhoods · 66 sub-areas
Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.
| Sleaford East | £726 | +11.8% | 79 | 34 |
| North Hykeham North | £793 | +11.8% | 95 | 70 |
| Sleaford West | £804 | +11.8% | 86 | 75 |
| Ruskington West & Cranwell | £808 | +11.8% | 90 | 95 |
| Ruskington North & Billinghay | £827 | +11.8% | 53 | 81 |
| North Hykeham South | £831 | +11.8% | 87 | 84 |
| Metheringham, Nocton & Potterhanworth | £841 | +11.8% | 55 | 79 |
| Bracebridge Heath & Waddington | £846 | +11.8% | 86 | 88 |
| Washingborough & Branston | £855 | +11.8% | 88 | 95 |
| Ruskington South, Leasingham & Osbournby | £876 | +11.8% | 42 | 85 |
| Heckington | £889 | +11.8% | 29 | 80 |
| Skellingthorpe, Witham & Bassingham | £944 | +11.8% | 50 | 79 |
| Navenby, Harmston & Brant Broughton | £973 | +11.8% | 40 | 87 |
Sources: ONS, MHCLG, DfT, DESNZ, Defra, Police.uk, Ofsted, Ofcom, HM Land Registry. Some columns (salary, council tax, HPI) are published at council-area level.
Where to look in North Kesteven
Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in North Kesteven. Each list is filtered from the same neighbourhood data above — the basis of each shortlist is stated above the list so you know what's been weighted.
Lowest estimated monthly rent. Rent is the LAD-published ONS PIPR median, scaled per neighbourhood by local sale prices (Land Registry).
Highest composite liveability — combines safety, schools, transport access and rental affordability into one 0–100 score (higher = more liveable).
Highest liveability per pound of rent — desirable areas where rent stays close to or below the North Kesteven median.
Cost of living
Median rent and council tax across North Kesteven.
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.
Safety in North Kesteven
Crime in North Kesteven runs at 2.2× safer than the national average. Top quartile (#46 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 45.2, averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods.
How crime is measured
What's counted. Incidents recorded by territorial police forces and published to data.police.uk each month. Rates use the latest 12 months of data divided by the area's mid-2024 ONS resident population — so the figure is reported incidents per 1,000 residents per year.
Anti-social behaviour is the largest category in most areas and is worth reading carefully — it's a community-reports bucket (noise, rowdiness, nuisance), not "crime" in the legal sense. ASB and shoplifting are weighted lower than violent offences in the safety score on each page.
Caveats. The denominator is residents, so workday and tourist destinations can look worse than they feel for someone living there. Greater Manchester forces stopped publishing to data.police.uk in 2020, so figures for those areas are intentionally blank rather than misleadingly low.
Crime detailTop crime types · safest neighbourhoods in this council area
Source: data.police.uk — incident counts adjusted for population, then averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods. National average = England + Wales population-weighted mean.
Schools in North Kesteven
100% of schools serving North Kesteven are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. Best 5% nationally (#1 of 296 cities)
School breakdownOfsted distribution · best neighbourhoods for schools
Ofsted school inspection ratings, latest inspection per school.
Transport in North Kesteven
Modelled door-to-door commute from this council area to nearby employment hubs. Closest first.
Transport detailAll city commute times · mode share · best-connected neighbourhoods
DfT Journey Time Statistics + ONS Travel-to-Work.
Job access from North Kesteven
North Kesteven has 0.37 jobs per resident locally. Below median
Job access detailReachability tiers · sector mix in this council area
ONS BRES (jobs density) + DfT job-accessibility minutes.
Frequently asked about North Kesteven
Short answers to the questions we get most often. Each answer is anchored in the data above and links onward where you can dig deeper.
- What is the average rent in North Kesteven?
- The median monthly rent across North Kesteven is £857, based on ONS Private Rental Prices data. Individual neighbourhoods vary — see the shortlist above for the cheapest and most desirable areas.
- Where is the cheapest place to rent in North Kesteven?
- The cheapest neighbourhood in North Kesteven by estimated median rent is Sleaford East at approximately £726/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
- What's the best neighbourhood to live in North Kesteven?
- By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in North Kesteven is North Hykeham North at 95/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
- Is North Kesteven a safe area?
- North Kesteven has an average safety score of 77/100 across its constituent neighbourhoods (higher is safer). The score is the national percentile rank of police-recorded crimes per 1,000 residents per year, inverted so 100 means the safest 1% of England + Wales.
- What is council tax in North Kesteven?
- The most common council tax band in North Kesteven is not yet published, with the Band D annual charge currently around £332. Council tax is set at the local authority level so the same banding applies to every postcode within North Kesteven.
- What is the average salary in North Kesteven?
- The median annual resident salary in North Kesteven is £30,585, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in North Kesteven, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
- What is the average house price in North Kesteven?
- The average property price in North Kesteven is approximately £242,467 according to HM Land Registry's House Price Index. Individual neighbourhoods vary — typically ±20% around this council area median.
- What's the rental yield in North Kesteven?
- Gross rental yield in North Kesteven is approximately 3.8% — the council-area level median rent annualised over the council-area level median sale price. Net yield (after agency, void, maintenance and tax) typically runs 30–40% lower.
- How long does it take to save a deposit in North Kesteven?
- Saving a 10% deposit at the council area median sale price on the council area median salary, while putting away 10% of takehome pay each month, takes approximately 4.0 years in North Kesteven. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
- Is gigabit broadband available in North Kesteven?
- 100% of premises in North Kesteven are gigabit-capable per Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Coverage is patchier in older terraces and rural fringes — check your specific postcode for service availability.
- What's the unemployment rate in North Kesteven?
- 2.2% of 16-64 residents in North Kesteven are on the DWP Claimant Count — Universal Credit while seeking work, or Jobseeker's Allowance. That's the live monthly local indicator. It's narrower than the ONS Labour Force Survey "ILO unemployment rate" (which counts anyone actively job-seeking on a separate denominator) and narrower again than Census 2021's "% unemployed" (which is calculated against all 16+ residents and so isn't directly comparable).
- How many neighbourhoods are in North Kesteven?
- North Kesteven contains 13 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 66 sub-areas (local areas). Browse the full list at the bottom of this page or use the neighbourhood map above to drill into a specific area.
What you need on day one
All sub-areas in North Kesteven
Every local area, ordered by crawl priority. Most readers want the neighbourhood-level view — these are for deep-link cases or external search-engine arrivals.
- North Kesteven 013C
- North Kesteven 010E
- North Kesteven 010D
- North Kesteven 008C
- North Kesteven 004C
- North Kesteven 003J
- North Kesteven 011F
- North Kesteven 011A
- North Kesteven 001B
- North Kesteven 005E
- North Kesteven 013B
- North Kesteven 011C
- North Kesteven 009B
- North Kesteven 010A
- North Kesteven 004A
- North Kesteven 004B
- North Kesteven 013D
- North Kesteven 010B
- North Kesteven 009C
- North Kesteven 007C
- North Kesteven 003D
- North Kesteven 001F
- North Kesteven 010C
- North Kesteven 008D
- North Kesteven 007B
- North Kesteven 005C
- North Kesteven 001C
- North Kesteven 001A
- North Kesteven 006C
- North Kesteven 008A
- North Kesteven 012C
- North Kesteven 007D
- North Kesteven 003E
- North Kesteven 001D
- North Kesteven 001E
- North Kesteven 014E
- North Kesteven 003I
- North Kesteven 006D
- North Kesteven 006B
- North Kesteven 009A
- North Kesteven 003H
- North Kesteven 014C
- North Kesteven 004D
- North Kesteven 008B
- North Kesteven 012B
- North Kesteven 011E
- North Kesteven 011B
- North Kesteven 005B
- North Kesteven 013A
- North Kesteven 012A
- North Kesteven 005A
- North Kesteven 003C
- North Kesteven 014F
- North Kesteven 014A
- North Kesteven 003F
- North Kesteven 012E
- North Kesteven 014D
- North Kesteven 011G
- North Kesteven 004F
- North Kesteven 003B
- North Kesteven 012D
- North Kesteven 005D
- North Kesteven 004E
- North Kesteven 006A
- North Kesteven 014B
- North Kesteven 007A