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Gunness population

2,253people · latest estimate

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

Gunness has a population of 2,253, making it the 14th largest place in North Lincolnshire.

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The other populations of Gunness

Depending on where you draw the boundary, Gunness has between 760 and 2,253 residents. Both are correct.

What you meanPopulationSource
The place itself
The populated settlement, roughly the built-up core.
2,253 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.
760 ONS Census 2021 (2021)

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

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

Gunness in context

5 km
east to Scunthorpe, the nearest larger town
105,507
people live within 10 km
#2,792
largest of 6,358 UK places
527
food businesses in North Lincolnshire
Gunness 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 Gunness sits in postcode district DN15.

Food and drink on the high street

Registered premisesCount
Pubs, bars and nightclubs (13.2 per 10,000 residents)1

Counts are registered food premises in the Gunness built-up area (760 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) (13.2 per 10,000 residents)1
Hairdressing salons (13.2 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)Rate
Violence and sexual offences42.1
Anti-social behaviour5.3
Shoplifting1.3
Criminal damage and arson11.8
Burglary5.3
Other theft5.3
All recorded offences89.5

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.

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 →

Broadband

Availability% of homes
Gigabit-capable (1,000 Mbit/s+)98.3%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)99.2%

Share of the 356 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 →

Go deeper

Population since 2001
North Lincolnshire, year by year from ONS estimates
Postcode district DN15
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in North Lincolnshire

#PlacePopulation
1Belton2,503
2Burton upon Stather2,410
3Goxhill2,290
4Keadby2,238
5Haxey2,153
6Hibaldstow1,974

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