Photo: Jonathan Thacker · CC BY-SA 2.0Life expectancy in Grantham trails the figure across England: 77.9 for men and 82.0 for women
England as a whole stood at 79.1 and 83.0 over 2019 to 2023. Inside the town, men’s life expectancy runs from 77.0 in Grantham South West to 81.4 in Corby Glen, Ropsley & Grantham Outskirts, 2.2 miles apart. Grantham grades C− for health: life expectancy, healthy life expectancy, early deaths, hospital admissions, child obesity and Census health, each adjusted for age; #44 of 61 in Lincolnshire.
What stands out about health in Grantham
A 4-year gap from one part of Grantham to another
Men in Corby Glen, Ropsley & Grantham Outskirts can expect to live to 81.4, longer than the English average of 79.1. In Grantham South West, 2.2 miles away, the figure is 77.0, and Grantham South East records 122 deaths under 75 for every 100 expected for its ages. For women the range is 80.6 in Grantham South East to 86.9 in Corby Glen, Ropsley & Grantham Outskirts. Neighbourhoods ↓
More of Grantham’s children are obese
24% of Year 6 children (aged 10 to 11) were measured as obese over the last three school years, against 22.3% across England; more than in 84% of UK towns. Health Grade ↓
More patients are seen within four hours than across England, but 12-hour waits for a bed are commoner
United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs the A&E at Lincoln County Hospital, saw 65% of major-A&E patients within four hours in the 12 months to September 2026, against 61% across England: 33rd of 117 trusts. 23% of patients admitted through its A&Es waited more than 12 hours from the decision to admit, against 13% in England. A&E ↓
Written from the OHID, NHS England and GP Patient Survey figures on this page. Life expectancy covers 2019 to 2023; neighbourhoods are ONS middle-layer areas of about 8,000 people.
Grantham grades C− for health
Healthier than 23% of UK towns, on age-adjusted measures.
Behind the typical UK town on every measure. Even its strongest, Census bad health and emergency admissions, are in the bottom 40% of UK towns; deaths under 75 and child obesity are furthest behind. Among the 192 UK towns of 31,000 to 61,000 people, Grantham’s Health Grade is the 98th highest.
Each measure is ranked against every UK town of 1,000 or more, the ranks are averaged, and the average is ranked again. Every measure allows for the town’s ages: life expectancy is worked out from the death rate at each age, so it doesn’t depend on how old the town’s residents are; deaths and admissions are counted against what England’s rates would give a town with these ages, and the Census answers against England and Wales’s rates by single year of age, so a seaside town of retired people isn’t marked down for being old.
Men’s life expectancy across Grantham runs from 77.0 to 81.4
Life expectancy at birth, 2019–23, in Grantham’s 5 middle-layer neighbourhoods (about 8,000 people each). Circles are sized by residents and show men’s life expectancy.
The gap follows deprivation closely: Grantham South West, where 41% of residents are income-deprived, has men’s life expectancy of 77.0. Grantham South East has the most deaths under 75 for its ages (122 per 100 expected), against 66 in Corby Glen, Ropsley & Grantham Outskirts.
Show every measure as a table
| Neighbourhood | Men | Women | Deaths under 75 | Emergency admissions | Year 6 obese | Income-deprived |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corby Glen, Ropsley & Grantham Outskirts | 81.4 | 86.9 | 66 | 69 | 22% | 11% |
| Grantham South East | 78.0 | 80.6 | 122 | 99 | 25% | 24% |
| Grantham North West | 77.6 | 81.2 | 120 | 89 | 21% | 13% |
| Grantham North East | 77.0 | 81.8 | 110 | 99 | 24% | 26% |
| Grantham South West | 77.0 | 82.4 | 115 | 103 | 30% | 41% |
Deaths and admissions per 100 expected for each area’s ages (England = 100). Each figure has a range: Grantham South West’s men’s life expectancy is 77.0 with a 95% range of 75.1 to 79.0. Neighbourhoods are ONS middle-layer areas at least 30% inside Grantham; names are the House of Commons Library’s.
United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals saw 65% of major-A&E patients within four hours
Type 1 (major) A&E attendances seen, admitted or discharged within four hours of arrival, by month. NHS England publishes it by trust, not hospital: United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust runs the A&E at Lincoln County Hospital, the nearest to Grantham (23 mi).
The share seen within four hours rose from an average of 60% in April 2025 to September 2025 to 69% in the latest six months; England’s was 62%. Long waits for a bed are commoner than at 81% of trusts: 13,584 patients in 12 months, 23% of emergency admissions through A&E. CQC’s latest ratings for Lincoln County Hospital: urgent and emergency services requires improvement (2025), the hospital overall requires improvement (2025).
Midlands trusts
Hospitals within 25 miles
| Distance | Hospital | CQC overall | Urgent & emergency |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.4 mi | Grantham and District Hospital Grantham · United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | Good2026 | — |
| 13 mi | Newark Hospital Newark · Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Good2026 | — |
| 14 mi | Melton Mowbray Hospital Melton Mowbray · Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust | Not rated | — |
| 17 mi | Rutland Memorial Hospital Oakham · Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust | Not rated | — |
| 19 mi | Stamford & Rutland Hospital Stamford · North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust | Good2019 | — |
| 22 mi | Johnson Community Hospital Spalding · Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust | Not rated | — |
| 22 mi | Johnson Community Hospital Spalding · United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | Not rated | — |
| 22 mi | Nottingham City Hospital Nottingham · Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust | Good2026 | — |
NHS acute hospitals registered with the Care Quality Commission (care directory, 01 October 2026). “A&E” marks a major (type 1) emergency department, open 24 hours and led by consultants, in NHS England’s Emergency Care Data Set; a hospital without the mark may still have a minor injury unit or urgent treatment centre. Ratings run Outstanding, Good, Requires improvement, Inadequate; the year is when each was published. Distances are straight lines from the town centre.
Men’s life expectancy in Grantham is 0.9 years below what its level of deprivation predicts
Across 1,996 English towns of 2,500 or more, men’s life expectancy tracks income deprivation closely (correlation −0.81). Each dot is a town.
23% of Grantham’s residents are income-deprived, more than in most English towns. For that level, the line predicts 78.8 years for men; Grantham’s is 77.9. For women it predicts 82.7, and Grantham’s 82.0 is 0.7 years below.
Income deprivation: share of residents in low-income households, English Indices of Deprivation 2025, averaged over each town’s neighbourhoods. A town above or below the line isn’t necessarily doing better or worse on care: students, prisons and hostels inside a boundary all shift the figures.
Care in and near Grantham
The nearest A&E, the practice patients rate highest, and where to go when it’s urgent but not an emergency. In an emergency, call 999.
74% of patients rate Grantham’s 5 GP practices good
GP Patient Survey 2026 (NHS England, run by Ipsos), about 100 patients a practice, against 77% across England. 97th of 157 English towns of 31,000 to 61,000, from the highest.
| Practice | Overall experience | Easy by phone | Wait about right | CQC |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vine Street Surgery NG31 6RQ · 8,422 adult patients | 85% good · range 77%–90% | 69% | 87% | Good2016 |
| Dr Ian Allsebrook NG31 9NS · 4,636 adult patients | 84% good · range 77%–89% | 61% | 81% | Good2016 |
| Swingbridge Surgery NG31 7XT · 5,793 adult patients | 76% good · range 68%–82% | 67% | 66% | Good2018 |
| St Johns Medical Centre NG31 6HR · 10,677 adult patients | 70% good · range 57%–81% | 70% | 75% | Good2017 |
| St Peters Hill Surgery NG31 6QA · 12,166 adult patients | 66% good · range 45%–82% | 51% | 74% | Good2018 |
Vine Street Surgery has the town’s highest rating (85%). You can register with any practice whose area covers your address.
GP Patient Survey 2026: surveys sent January to March 2026; results weighted by NHS England. The range is the 95% confidence interval. Adult patients: the survey’s practice population aged 16 and over. A practice counts as in Grantham when its main surgery is inside the built-up area; branch surgeries are part of their main practice. CQC ratings © Care Quality Commission.
81% of adults in the Lincolnshire area who tried got an NHS dental appointment
Adults who tried to get an NHS dental appointment for themselves in the last two years, and got one. GP Patient Survey 2026, by integrated care system (the NHS area that plans dentistry for Grantham).
Across England 82% of those who tried got an appointment. Of Lincolnshire patients who did, 69% rated the experience good (England 74%). NHS practices taking new patients are listed on the NHS website’s Find a dentist; for urgent dental pain, call NHS 111.
The survey asks GP patients about dentistry, so results are published for health areas, not towns or practices.
81% of residents say their health is good or very good
Census 2021, all residents, as answered (not adjusted for age).
Adjusted for age, 97 report bad health for every 100 expected, close to the national rate.
Show as a table
| Census 2021 | Grantham | Lincolnshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 81% | 79% | 82% |
| Fair health | 14% | 15% | 13% |
| Bad or very bad health | 5.1% | 5.9% | 5.2% |
| Disabled under the Equality Act | 19% | 20% | 17% |
| Day-to-day activities limited a lot | 7.6% | 8.5% | 7.4% |
Lincolnshire and England: all residents of their built-up areas (towns and cities), from the same Census 2021 output areas.
Grantham’s Health Grade is 98th of 192 UK towns of 31,000 to 61,000
Ordered by Health Grade: the top three, the towns either side of Grantham, and others in Lincolnshire. Life expectancy for men / women; deaths under 75 per 100 expected.
| # | Town | People | Life expectancy | Deaths under 75 | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fleet Hampshire | 37,800 | 83.3 / 85.7 | 58 | A+ |
| 2 | Wokingham Berkshire | 50,320 | 82.7 / 86.1 | 67 | A+ |
| 3 | West Molesey Surrey | 47,144 | 82.5 / 86.3 | 63 | A |
| … | |||||
| 96 | Hereford Herefordshire | 60,471 | 78.0 / 82.5 | 108 | C− |
| 97 | Kidderminster Worcestershire | 57,567 | 77.7 / 81.8 | 115 | C− |
| 98 | Grantham Lincolnshire | 44,906 | 77.9 / 82.0 | 111 | C− |
| 99 | Gravesend Kent | 58,105 | 77.9 / 82.9 | 117 | C− |
| 100 | Bridgend Mid Glamorgan | 51,751 | — | — | C− |
| … | |||||
| 106 | Boston Lincolnshire | 45,347 | 76.2 / 81.4 | 134 | C− |
| … | |||||
| 192 | Greenock Inverclyde | 42,870 | 73.5 / 78.2 | — | D− |
Health letters rank against every UK town of 1,000 or more; the order here is context only. Welsh towns are graded on life expectancy, healthy life expectancy and the two Census measures: OHID’s early-death, admissions and child-obesity figures cover England.
Health in the places around Grantham
Life expectancy for men / women, and the nearest A&E. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | People | Life expectancy | Nearest A&E | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grantham | 44,906 | 77.9 / 82.0 | 23 mi | C− |
| Great Gonerby | 1,880 | 80.3 / 86.9 | 21 mi | B |
| Barrowby | 2,041 | 80.3 / 86.9 | 21 mi | B+ |
| Bottesford | 3,046 | 82.1 / 86.1 | 16 mi | A− |
| Long Bennington | 2,149 | 80.3 / 86.9 | 18 mi | A− |
| Colsterworth | 1,296 | 83.4 / 85.6 | 21 mi | B+ |
| Corby Glen | 1,006 | 81.4 / 86.9 | 19 mi | A− |
| Claypole | 1,352 | 81.8 / 87.0 | 17 mi | A− |
Colsterworth, 7.6 miles away, has men’s life expectancy of 83.4, 5.5 years longer than Grantham’s.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- A&E figures are for the trust. NHS England publishes four-hour waits by trust, not hospital, so United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust’s figures cover every major A&E it runs. They count type 1 (major) departments; minor injury units and urgent treatment centres are left out, which is why they sit below the all-types figure NHS England headlines (75% for England).
- The GP survey is a survey. About 100 patients answer for each practice, so a practice’s figure has a range (shown in the table); small differences between practices aren’t meaningful. The town figure weights each practice by its adult patients, some of whom live outside Grantham.
- Adjusted for age. A ratio of 100 means as many deaths, admissions or reports of bad health as England’s rates (England and Wales’s for the Census) would give a town with these ages; 120 means a fifth more.
- Small areas, summed to the town. OHID publishes these figures for middle-layer areas of about 8,000 people; the town’s figure averages the areas it covers, weighted by how many of their residents live in it, so a village shares its area’s figure with the countryside around it.
- Different years. Life expectancy and deaths cover 2019 to 2023; emergency admissions 2016/17 to 2020/21 (the latest OHID publishes for small areas, including the pandemic dip); child obesity the three school years to 2024/25; A&E the 12 months to September 2026; the GP Patient Survey early 2026; CQC ratings were published on different dates, shown in each row.
- Distances are straight lines. Miles are measured from the town’s centre to each site; the road is longer. For an emergency, call 999; for urgent advice, call NHS 111.
Questions about health in Grantham
How healthy is Grantham?
Grantham earns a C− for health, healthier than 23% of UK towns on measures adjusted for age, and 98th of 192 UK towns of its size. Life expectancy is 77.9 for men and 82.0 for women (England 79.1 and 83.0), and there are 111 deaths under 75 for every 100 expected.
Which parts of Grantham have the highest life expectancy?
For men, Corby Glen, Ropsley & Grantham Outskirts (81.4), Grantham South East (78.0) and Grantham North West (77.6); the shortest is Grantham South West (77.0). For women, Corby Glen, Ropsley & Grantham Outskirts is highest (86.9) and Grantham South East lowest (80.6). OHID figures for 2019 to 2023, by neighbourhood of about 8,000 people.
How long are A&E waits at Lincoln County Hospital?
NHS England publishes waits for the trust, United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. In the 12 months to September 2026 it saw 65% of major-A&E patients within four hours, against 61% across England; in September 2026 the figure was 64%. In an emergency call 999; for urgent advice call NHS 111.
Can I get an NHS dentist in Grantham?
In the 2026 GP Patient Survey, 81% of adults in the Lincolnshire area who tried to get an NHS dental appointment in the last two years got one, against 82% across England. Practices taking new NHS patients are listed on the NHS website’s Find a dentist service.
Which GP practice in Grantham do patients rate highest?
In the 2026 GP Patient Survey, Vine Street Surgery (85% good overall), Dr Ian Allsebrook (84% good overall) and Swingbridge Surgery (76% good overall). Across all 5 Grantham practices, 74% of patients rate their practice good, against 77% in England.
What is the life expectancy in Grantham?
77.9 years for men and 82.0 for women, on OHID’s figures for 2019 to 2023. Men can expect 63.3 of those years and women 65.0 in good health.
CQC ratings © Care Quality Commission.
Sources: OHID Fingertips small-area indicators (life expectancy and deaths 2019–23, emergency admissions 2016/17–2020/21, NCMP 2022/23–2024/25); House of Commons Library MSOA names · ONS health state life expectancy for small areas (MSOAs), England and Wales, 2019 to 2023 (healthy life expectancy) · ONS Census 2021 general health and disability, adjusted for age · Care Quality Commission care directory and latest ratings, 01 October 2026 · NHS Organisation Data Service · GP Patient Survey 2026 (NHS England, run by Ipsos) · NHS England, A&E Attendances and Emergency Admissions (monthly, by trust) and Emergency Care Data Set activity by site, June–September 2026 (type 1 A&Es) · MHCLG English Indices of Deprivation 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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