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Immingham population

10,750people · latest estimate

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By James Burfield, SEO consultant, Bath · Page updated · GeoNames · World Gazetteer 2005 · FSA register

Immingham has a population of 10,750, making it the 3rd largest place in North East Lincolnshire. In 2005 the World Gazetteer recorded 11,337, a fall of 5.2% since.

11,337
in 2005
-5.2%
since 2005

The other populations of Immingham

The same name covers more than one area, and each has its own figure.

What you meanPopulationSource
The place itself
The populated settlement, roughly the built-up core.
10,750 GeoNames
The built-up area
Continuous development, where buildings sit less than 200m apart. Drawn from where the buildings are, not where the council boundary is.
9,770 ONS Census 2021 (2021)
The place in 2005
The same settlement twenty years earlier.
11,337 World Gazetteer (2005)

Why these differ: which population figure is right? · compare with another place

The 2005 figure is from the World Gazetteer archive and may draw its boundary differently from the current source, so treat the change as indicative. Sources: method.

Year-by-year official estimates for the wider area: North East Lincolnshire population trends, 2001–2024.

Immingham in context

11 km
south-east to Grimsby, the nearest larger town
24,066
people live within 10 km
#1,183
largest of 6,358 UK places
651
food businesses in North East Lincolnshire
Immingham in the UK

Distances are straight-line from the settlement's recorded coordinates. The 10 km figure sums the recorded places within that radius, so it describes how built-up the surroundings are rather than people per square kilometre.

The centre of Immingham sits in postcode district DN40.

Food and drink on the high street

Registered premisesCount
Restaurants and cafés (12.3 per 10,000 residents)12
Takeaways and sandwich shops (18.4 per 10,000 residents)18
Pubs, bars and nightclubs (5.1 per 10,000 residents)5
Hotels, B&Bs and guest houses (1.0 per 10,000 residents)1
Supermarkets and hypermarkets (4.1 per 10,000 residents)4

Counts are registered food premises in the Immingham built-up area (9,770 residents at the 2021 census), from the FSA food hygiene register, extracted 17 August 2026. The boundary is drawn from where the buildings are, so these figures cover the town itself rather than the wider council area, and no total is shown because the register also lists premises nobody would call a venue: school kitchens, care homes, warehouses. Compare towns →

Shops and services

PremisesCount
Shops (all retail) (56.3 per 10,000 residents)55
Cafés (4.1 per 10,000 residents)4
Hairdressing salons (6.1 per 10,000 residents)6
Banks and building societies (1.0 per 10,000 residents)1
Surgeries (GP, dental and similar) (11.3 per 10,000 residents)11
Libraries (1.0 per 10,000 residents)1
Community centres (9.2 per 10,000 residents)9
Car parks (1.0 per 10,000 residents)1
Licensed betting shops (2.0 per 10,000 residents)2
Adult gaming centres (1.0 per 10,000 residents)1

Shops, cafés, salons, banks, post offices and arcades are rateable premises by use on the VOA 2023 rating list — the shops figure is all general retail, charity shops included. Gambling premises come from the Gambling Commission's licensing register, which lists 6,251 betting shops nationally against the rating list's 3,838: many betting shops are rated as ordinary shops, so the licensing register is the truer count and the one used here. Categories the rating list counts badly are deliberately absent rather than wrong: petrol stations disappear into supermarket ratings, vets and museums run far under their professional registers, and pools and nurseries mostly rate inside other premises. Same built-up-area boundary as the download table on this page.

Crime, per 1,000 residents

Category (police-recorded, 12 months)RateOn the year
Violence and sexual offences40.6-2%
Anti-social behaviour12.8+3%
Shoplifting7.8+25%
Criminal damage and arson9.8-4%
Vehicle crime2.8
Burglary4.7
Other theft6.7-19%
Robbery0.5
All recorded offences100.9+1%

The all-offences line is a count of records, not a safety score: it weighs every category equally, which is exactly why we publish the categories. We deliberately do not combine them into a single index.

The year column compares August 2025 to July 2026 with the twelve months before it, August 2024 to July 2025, two windows that do not overlap. A dash means that category had fewer than 50 offences in one of the years, where a percentage would be arithmetic rather than information. Read these as changes in what was recorded: a force changing how it logs a category, or a local campaign encouraging people to report, moves this column without anything changing on the street. The change is withheld entirely for any town whose force did not publish all twelve months in both years.

Figures are police-recorded crime (August 2025 to July 2026) located to this built-up area, per 1,000 residents at the 2021 census. Three cautions, each of which changes how a rate should be read: recorded crime is not crime experienced, because reporting rates differ by category and by place; the denominator counts residents, so town centres and visitor towns run high per resident precisely because many people there are not residents; and a high figure can reflect more reporting as easily as more crime. Percentiles compare towns of 10,000+ residents. Greater Manchester and Gloucestershire constabularies do not publish, so their towns show a note instead of a partial figure. Compare towns →

House prices

Property typeMedian sale price
Detached (35 sales)£230,000
Semi-detached (60 sales)£149,000
Terraced (20 sales)£95,000
All types (118 sales)£150,000
Change on the year before
each type compared with itself, July 2024 to June 2025
+6.4%

Medians of actual registered sales in the Immingham built-up area, July 2025 to June 2026, from HM Land Registry Price Paid data (standard open-market sales only; repossessions, part-value transfers and non-residential records excluded). A median is the middle sale, so it resists the mansion problem that skews averages. Recent sales take weeks to register, which is why the window ends before the current month. Types with fewer than 20 sales are not shown. The year-on-year change compares this window with the twelve months before it, July 2024 to June 2025, and compares each property type with itself before combining them on this year's mix. Doing it the obvious way instead, median against median, would have this town's prices swing on which kind of house happened to sell: one town in this data sold 29 detached houses one year and 9 the next, and its raw median halved without a single house changing price. The change is published only where the types compared cover most of the year's sales and the town saw 50+ of them. Compare towns →

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for North East Lincolnshire, the billing authority covering Immingham, is £2,484 for 2026–27.

From MHCLG's council tax statistics (Table 9): the area average including police, fire and parish precepts, so it is the council's figure rather than the town's, and your own band depends on your property's 1991 valuation.

Schools

Open establishmentsSchoolsPlacesPupilsFilled
Primary schools41,05480476.3%
Secondary schools190056863.1%

The 2021 census counted 627 children aged 5 to 9 in the town: one state primary school for every 157 of them.

Open schools registered in the Immingham built-up area, from the Department for Education's Get Information about Schools register, extracted 24 August 2026. Each school counts once: an independent special school appears under special schools, and the phase rows are state schools. Places are reported capacity and pupils each school's latest census return, summed only over schools reporting both, and shown only where at least 9 in 10 of a phase's schools do; state primaries across measured towns run at 89.2% of capacity, secondaries 91.3%. The children-per-school figure pairs a 2021 census count with today's register, so growth or decline since the census is not in it. No inspection grades are shown because Ofsted stopped issuing single-word overall judgements in 2024 and the register no longer carries them; current inspection reports are on Ofsted's own site. England only: the register lists Welsh schools without phase detail.

Care quality, as the regulator rates it

GP practices in the built-up area with a CQC overall rating: 1 Good.

Care homes: 2 Good, 1 Requires improvement.

Registered dental practices: 3 (3.1 per 10,000 residents). A count, not a judgment: CQC inspects dentists but does not rate them, so no dental practice anywhere has a rating to show.

These are the Care Quality Commission's own latest overall judgments (September 2026 publication), counted on this built-up area, never combined into any score of ours. A rating's age varies with when CQC last inspected, and unrated locations (new registrations, or types CQC does not rate) are not shown. The dental figure counts every registered location on CQC's directory, NHS and private alike; it says nothing about whether one is taking NHS patients. England only. Compare towns →

Broadband

Availability% of homes
Gigabit-capable (1,000 Mbit/s+)99.0%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)99.2%
Unable to get 10 Mbit/s download3 homes (0.1%)

Share of the 4,357 residential premises in this built-up area that the fixed network can serve at each speed, from Ofcom's Connected Nations coverage data (network state July 2025). Availability is what the line to a home can deliver if ordered, not what households actually subscribe to, and a full-fibre street where everyone bought the cheapest package shows 100% here. Percentile compares towns of 10,000+ residents. Compare towns →

Common questions

What is the population of Immingham?
The populated place itself holds 10,750 residents. The built-up area, the boundary drawn from where the buildings actually stand, holds 9,770 at the 2021 census. The wider North East Lincolnshire council area recorded 159,911 in 2024. Each figure describes a different boundary and all are correct; the meanings table on this page says which is which, because a population without its boundary is not an answer.

Go deeper

Population since 2001
North East Lincolnshire, year by year from ONS estimates
Postcode district DN40
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Towns like Immingham

The closest statistical matches among English and Welsh towns of 10,000+ residents, with geography playing no part. Immingham's own figures sit in the first row for comparison.

TownCountyMedian priceOffences /1,000Median ageOwner-occupied
Immingham North East Lincolnshire £150,000 100.9 43.4 65.1%
Armthorpe Doncaster £180,000 101.8 43.3 67.5%
Conisbrough Doncaster £146,000 108.2 42.6 67.4%
Maesteg Bridgend county borough £130,000 100.2 43.8 68.8%
Billingham Stockton-on-Tees £151,000 114.6 44.2 67.1%
Heanor Derbyshire £190,000 103.8 42.5 67.2%

Matched on up to six measures — house prices, recorded crime, median age, owner-occupation, gigabit availability and professional occupations — each rank-normalised across the 773 towns that carry at least four of them. The likeness is mechanical, and the columns are here so you can judge it yourself.

Nearby in North East Lincolnshire

#PlacePopulation
1Grimsby86,138
2Cleethorpes38,996
3Humberston8,216
4Waltham6,563
5Laceby3,259
6Healing2,940

All 10 places in North East Lincolnshire →