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Private rents average £741 a month. A village in Lincolnshire, East Midlands, home to 2,069 people.
Where it does best is cost of living: homes sell for a median £207,000, about 4.2 times local household income. It also does well on schools (A) — primary results beat 85% of towns in England. Work and incomes lag (D): households earn a mean £48,681 a year, and 2.9% of 16 to 64s claim unemployment benefits. Few people walk, cycle or take the bus to work (C): 10% of commuters walk, cycle or take public transport. Its other grades sit near the middle: C+ for safety and C+ for health.
Figures: prices, HM Land Registry, the last three years · income and life expectancy, ONS · claimants, DWP · commuting, Census 2021 · crime, police.uk, averaged Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. Bardney is graded on each subject, but towns under 2,500 get no overall grade.
The 3 things Bardney does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compared with the 2,160 UK towns with an overall grade (schools within England), ordered by how far Bardney is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Bardney is graded on each subject, but towns under 2,500 get no overall grade.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Historic England lists 10 buildings inside Bardney’s built-up area, 1 of them Grade I.
24% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town.
The archive holds 1 old photo or postcard going back to 1944.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Bardney.
Just over two thirds of households own their home. The £207,000 median rests on 91 standard sales inside the built-up area (September 2023 to August 2026). Social renters account for 18% of households.
| By type | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | £280,000 | 51 |
| Semi-detached | £180,000 | 23 |
| Terraced | £150,000 | 17 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid · ONS private rents · MHCLG / Welsh Government council tax · ONS Census 2021 tenure · OGL
The town has one school, shown below. 69% of pupils at the one primary school within 3 km met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (three-year average). Its one primary school teaches 162 pupils.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bardney Church of England and Methodist Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 162 | B+ |
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in lockdown, so 21% of workers were mainly at home; shares here are of those who travelled.
The car took 88% of commuters, higher than both Lincolnshire’s towns (79%) and England’s towns (70%). Jobs per working resident: 0.5. Of the commuters living in Bardney, 11% work in the town itself.
ONS Census 2021, method of travel and distance to work · ONS small-area income · DWP claimant count · OGL
The nearest A&E to Bardney is Lincoln County Hospital, 8.3 miles away. Poor health, by residents’ own account, affects 6.6% of the town. The town has no GP practice of its own; the nearest is 5.6 miles away.
| Census 2021 | Bardney | Lincolnshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 79% | 79% | 82% |
| Bad or very bad health | 6.6% | 5.9% | 5.2% |
| Disabled (Equality Act) | 23% | 20% | 17% |
ONS Census 2021, general health and disability · OHID Fingertips, life expectancy 2019–23 · OGL · Self-reported health favours young towns, since these answers ignore age; the Health Grade leans on age-adjusted measures such as life expectancy and early deaths.
Among the 1,541 UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people, Bardney has more crime per resident than 78% of them. Police recorded 105 crimes inside the town’s built-up area in the 12 months to August 2026, plus 49 reports of anti-social behaviour. Anti-social behaviour, shown but not graded, came to 19.7 reports per 1,000, above both Lincolnshire’s towns (9.5) and England’s towns (7.8). Violence and sexual offences accounted for 54% of recorded crime.
Not gradedAnti-social behaviour, shoplifting and other theft are shown but left out of the Safety Grade, which counts violence and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident.
data.police.uk street-level crime · points inside the ONS built-up-area boundary · OGL · The police category of violence and sexual offences includes harassment and stalking.
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
The top grade, Grade I, goes to 1 of them. Bardney’s listed buildings include the Church of St Lawrence, Grade I. It has 10 listed buildings on Historic England’s list: 1 Grade I.
Historic England list, October 2026 · Valuation Office Agency, homes by build period · OGL
Ages in Bardney split evenly at 42.3: half are older, half younger. People 65 and over make up 22% of the town, close to Lincolnshire’s towns (22%) and above England’s towns (18%). Graduates make up a quarter of adults.
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
| Bardney | Lincolnshire | England | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 16% | 18% |
| 15–24 | 9.8% | 11% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 23% | 27% |
| 45–64 | 25% | 27% | 25% |
| 65+ | 22% | 22% | 18% |
| No qualifications | 20% | 21% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship | 7.6% | 6.7% | 5.3% |
| A levels or similar | 21% | 18% | 17% |
| Degree level | 25% | 25% | 34% |
ONS Census 2021 · Lincolnshire and England: all residents of their built-up areas · OGL
Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Bardney. Best known first.
Abbey or prioryBardney Abbey400 m outside town, to the northwest
Abbey or prioryStainfield Priory2.8 km outside town, to the northAbbey or prioryAbbey or prioryBarlings Abbey4.3 km outside town, to the northwestAbbey or prioryAbbey or prioryTupholme Abbey2.2 km outside town, to the southeastPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
The nearest built-up areas, from ONS’s 2022 boundaries. See them on the map →
| Town | People | Miles | Overall | Cost | Safety | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bardney | 2,069 | — | — | A | C+ | C+ |
| Fiskerton | 1,202 | 4.6 | — | A | A− | C+ |
| Wragby | 1,859 | 5.6 | — | B− | C+ | B− |
| Metheringham | 3,524 | 5.7 | B | A | A− | C+ |
| Cherry Willingham | 3,446 | 5.8 | B+ | A | A− | B− |
| Washingborough and Heighington | 6,386 | 5.9 | A | A | A | B+ |
| Woodhall Spa | 4,685 | 6.1 | B | D | A | C+ |
| Branston | 4,285 | 6.3 | B+ | A | B | B− |
Fiskerton and Wragby have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. People: Census 2021. Miles: centre to centre.
That is 2 times the typical UK town for its size. Its Grade I building is Church of St Lawrence.
Primary results beat 85% of towns in England (Department for Education, Key Stage 2). One state school is inside the town; places are handled by Lincolnshire council.
Burglary was rare, with 2 reports in the year.
Homes cost less than in most UK towns: the median sale over three years was £207,000, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. By type: terraced houses £150,000, semi-detached houses £180,000 and detached houses £280,000.
Village in Lincolnshire, England
Bardney is a built-up area of 2,069 people, in the West Lindsey council area. TownRatings uses ONS’s 2022 built-up areas as towns: the physical town, as people mean the word, rather than a council district, so its figures cover the town itself.
Built from ONS geography and Census 2021
Sources: ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area · HM Land Registry Price Paid (standard sales, September 2023 to August 2026) · ONS Price Index of Private Rents (August 2026, by council) · MHCLG and Welsh Government council tax, Band D 2026–27 (with parish precepts in England) · data.police.uk street-level crime, 36 months to August 2026, points inside the built-up-area boundary · ONS small-area life expectancy and healthy life expectancy, 2019 to 2023 (England and Wales), OHID Fingertips small-area indicators (England) and Census 2021 health, adjusted for age · ONS small-area income estimates (financial year ending 2023) · DWP claimant count via Nomis (January to August 2026) · Historic England, National Heritage List for England (listed buildings, scheduled monuments, registered parks and gardens, battlefields, World Heritage Sites), October 2026, inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary · Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties by build period (31 March 2025) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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