Horncastle

10°CPartly Cloudy

• Today: 12° / 8° · 59% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 9° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:04Sunset 16:23

9h 19m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

20US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Hull Freetown, United Kingdom

• 6.7 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 5.0% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

56 reported · August 2026▲ 51% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences17
• Anti-social behaviour14
• Criminal damage & arson8
• Public order6

Neighbourhood team: Horncastle and Wragby · Lincolnshire

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

391 reported road collisions (2025)

88 killed or seriously injured · 540 casualties · 27.5 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

81 food businesses within 2 miles

• 74 rated 4–5 ★ (67 top)
• 2 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 17 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap

£208,075 average▼ 0.9% YoY

Across East Lindsey · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£704 average monthly rent▲ 6.9% YoY

• 1 bed £522
• 2 bed £666
• 3 bed £819

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

7.0× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 7.0 times median annual pay (6.7× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

2,030 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

1 charging location within ~8 km

• Fastest nearby: 7 kW
• Nearest: The Bain Public Car-Park (0.4 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres5
• Sports pitches25
• Playgrounds4

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

142,296 residents in East Lindsey · 80/km²

• Under 16: 15%
• 16–64: 55%
• 65+: 30%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK9,102
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK6,494
• Net moves+2,608

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

Among the most deprived areas in England

Ranked 27 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

15% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,276 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (39% of 72,750)

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

78 schools · 16,934 pupils

58 primary · 12 secondary · 8 other

Ofsted: 29 of 34 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (85%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · East Lindsey

710 CQC-registered services

• Care homes284
• GP practices108
• Dentists126
• Homecare agencies128
• Hospitals & hospices26

CQC ratings: 88% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 3 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Lincolnshire

• In a conservation area (Horncastle)
• Not in the Green Belt
• 119 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

196 applications decided

93.4% granted · 183 granted, 13 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Victoria Atkins

Conservative

Louth and Horncastle

Source: UK Parliament

Conservative (minority)

• Lab 6
• Con 26
• LD 1
• Grn 1
• Ref 6
• Oth 15

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

• Schools4
• GPs & clinics1
• Pharmacies2
• Supermarkets4
• Parks & greens8
• Restaurants & cafés23

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

6,520 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

37 jobs advertised · £34,811 avg

e.g. Market Research Field Interviewer Paid per Shift Car Required, Lead Child Protection Practitioner, Benefits Systems and Control Officer

Source: Adzuna

£646 median full-time weekly pay

3.2% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£23,534 disposable income per head (2024)

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

33% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 82,267 certificates

14.3% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

45% low-carbon electricity

Gas 53% · Wind 26% · Biomass 18% · Imports 2%

232 gCO₂/kWh · very high intensity

Latest estimate for East Midlands · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 82.9 yrs women · 78.9 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Lincolnshire): 58.6 women · 58.6 men

73% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.5
• Feeling worthwhile8.0
• Happiness yesterday7.7
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.4

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

3 GP surgeries · 2 pharmacies in LN9

• Horncastle Medical Group
• Horncastle Extended Access Hub
• Lincs Community Emerg Med Service

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Louth and Horncastle:

• Stop a single Minister having the final say on national infrastructure projects464 local signatures · 15,667 nationwide
• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills211 local signatures · 111,154 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases202 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• End the mandatory fortification of white flour with folic acid immediately190 local signatures · 76,640 nationwide
• Launch a public inquiry into illegal migration in the UK187 local signatures · 78,478 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

• Cagthorpe · 0.1 km

  Cagthorpe is suburb of the town of Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England. It is south of, and separated from, the historic town centre by the re-aligned River Waring and the A158.

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  Horncastle · 0.1 km

  Horncastle is a market town and civil parish in the East Lindsey district in Lincolnshire, England. It is 17 miles (27 km) east of Lincoln. Its population was 6,815 at the 2011 census, growing to an estimated 7,123 in…

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  St Mary's Church, Horncastle · 0.1 km

  St. Mary's Church, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England, dates from the early 13th century and is dedicated to Saint Mary. It serves the Ecclesiastical Parish of Horncastle and a grade II* listed building that was heavil…

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  Stanhope Hall · 0.3 km

  The Stanhope Hall, formerly Horncastle Town Hall, is a municipal building in Boston Road in Horncastle, a town in Lincolnshire in England. The building began life as a drill hall, then became a town hall and finally b…

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  River Waring · 0.5 km

  The River Waring is a small river in Lincolnshire, England, and a tributary of the River Bain. The Waring rises in the parish of Belchford and runs through Belchford village, passing between the villages of Fulletby,…

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  Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Horncastle · 0.5 km

  Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Horncastle, is a co-educational grammar school with academy status in Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England. In 2009, there were 877 pupils, of whom 271 were in the sixth form.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)