GranthamLincolnshire

Grantham’s grade for cost of living grade: an A+

1,721 standard sales inside Grantham’s built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026 put the median at £205,000. 22% rent privately, above Lincolnshire’s towns (20%) and England’s towns (21%) alike. Private rents average £845 a month across the South Kesteven council area.

On exam results, Grantham’s schools trail 51% of towns in England

Below are three of its 23 schools, each with why it was picked. The King's School, Grantham’s results beat 98% of schools in England like it. 53% of pupils at the town’s 11 primary schools met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (three-year average).

Benefit claims run higher in Grantham, 4.1% of 16 to 64s, than in Lincolnshire’s towns or across England’s towns

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.

For 58% of commuters, work was under 5 km away. Of the commuters living in Grantham, 51% work in the town itself. Jobs per working resident: 1. Households had £47K a year before tax, close to Lincolnshire’s towns (£48K) and below England’s towns (£55K).

More crimes per resident in Grantham than in 84% of UK towns

Town centres with shops, stations and nightlife record more crime per resident: police.uk counts crimes where they happen, not where victims live.

Violence and sexual offences accounted for 43% of recorded crime. Police recorded 4,063 crimes inside Grantham’s built-up area in the 12 months to August 2026, plus 1,118 reports of anti-social behaviour. Also worth knowing: there were 23.4 anti-social behaviour reports per 1,000 residents (not graded), above both Lincolnshire’s towns (9.5) and England’s towns (7.8). For its size, Grantham records more crime per resident than 71% of the 645 UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.

Grantham is 22.6 miles from the nearest A&E

Life expectancy here is 82 for women and 77.9 for men (2019–23). 5 GP practices serve the town; 74% of patients rate theirs good in the GP Patient Survey. At the census, 5.1% of residents said their health was bad or very bad, about level with England’s towns (5.2%) and below Lincolnshire’s towns (5.9%).

203 listed buildings, 7 of them Grade I

The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.

Grade II* covers 4 of them, Grade I 7. Grantham’s listed buildings include Angel and Royal Hotel, Grade I. It has 2 scheduled monuments.

Few people in Grantham are 15 to 24: 10%, fewer than in both Lincolnshire’s towns and England’s towns

The under-15s are 18% of the population here. The median resident of Grantham is 41.6 years old. People 65 and over make up nearly a fifth of the town, below Lincolnshire’s towns (22%) but above England’s towns (18%). A quarter of adults hold a degree.