Haltoft End

21°COvercast

• Today: 22° / 12° · 59% rain
• Tomorrow: 22° / 16° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:27Sunset 19:25

12h 58m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

30US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Hull Freetown, United Kingdom

5 reported · July 2026▲ 67% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences3
• Burglary1
• Vehicle crime1

Neighbourhood team: Boston Rural East · Lincolnshire

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

190 reported road collisions (2024)

38 killed or seriously injured · 243 casualties · 26.9 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

51 food businesses within 2 miles

• 45 rated 4–5 ★ (43 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Boston (4.7 km)
• 11 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£180,778 average▲ 2.9% YoY

Across Boston · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£803 average monthly rent▲ 1.1% YoY

• 1 bed £603
• 2 bed £761
• 3 bed £920

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

6.8× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 6.8 times median annual pay (6.2× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 169.9p · Asda (4.7 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 191.9p · Asda (4.7 km)

1 station within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

19 charging locations within ~8 km

• 5 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 150 kW
• Nearest: Bargate (1.3 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches1
• Playgrounds1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

70,502 residents in Boston · 194/km²

• Under 16: 18%
• 16–64: 61%
• 65+: 20%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 85 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

3% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,309 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (49% of 31,980)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

31 schools · 10,176 pupils

18 primary · 5 secondary · 8 other

Ofsted: 7 of 9 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (78%)

26inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Boston

710 CQC-registered services

• Care homes285
• GP practices106
• Dentists125
• Homecare agencies128
• Hospitals & hospices26

CQC ratings: 89% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 5 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Lincolnshire

• Not in the Green Belt
• 12 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

75 applications decided

89.3% granted · 67 granted, 8 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Richard Tice

Reform UK

Boston and Skegness

Source: UK Parliament

Independent / Conservative coalition

• Con 4
• LD 1
• Ref 1
• Oth 24

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Schools1
• Supermarkets1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

2,795 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

£609 median full-time weekly pay

4.8% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£21,205 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

42% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 37,833 certificates

12.4% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

88% low-carbon electricity

Wind 59% · Solar 16% · Gas 12% · Biomass 9%

60 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for East Midlands · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 82.1 yrs women · 80.1 yrs men

71% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.7
• Feeling worthwhile7.6
• Happiness yesterday7.6
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.2

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2021-22

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Boston and Skegness:

• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office476 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s368 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership319 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Stop a single Minister having the final say on national infrastructure projects262 local signatures · 14,312 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test257 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

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  Endeavour FM · 0.9 km

  Endeavour FM is a local community radio station covering the area of Boston, Lincolnshire in England. Previously the station had been called Endeavour Online and Stump Radio, set up as a collaboration between Blackfri…

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  Freiston · 1.3 km

  Freiston is a village and civil parish in Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,306. It is situated approximately 2 miles (3 km) east from Boston. The Greenwich Prime Zero…

• Freiston Priory · 1.7 km

  Freiston Priory was a Benedictine cell of Crowland Abbey founded in 1114, and became a priory soon afterwards. It was Dissolved in 1539 and was located in Freiston, Lincolnshire, England.

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  Boston and Skegness · 1.9 km

  Boston and Skegness is a constituency in Lincolnshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Richard Tice of Reform UK since the 2024 general election. Like all British constituencies, it elects o…

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  Butterwick, Lincolnshire · 1.9 km

  Butterwick is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Boston, Lincolnshire, England, It is situated approximately 3 miles (5 km) east from the market town of Boston.

• Skirbeck Wapentake · 2.6 km

  Skirbeck Wapentake was a local government unit in the Parts of Holland Lincolnshire, England from the early eleventh century, until the wapentakes were abolished by the Local Government Act 1888.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)