North Kesteven population, 2001–2025
North Kesteven has an estimated population of 123,267 (mid-2025), up 30.6% since 2001. Official ONS mid-year estimates for the North Kesteven local authority area. The newest year is provisional: when ONS published mid-2025 it revised the mid-2024 figure for 348 of the 361 UK authorities, so read the last point on any of these charts as the current best estimate rather than a settled number.
Year by year
| Year | Population | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 123,267 | +0.8% |
| 2024 | 122,346 | +1.0% |
| 2023 | 121,086 | +1.1% |
| 2022 | 119,727 | +1.0% |
| 2021 | 118,502 | +1.2% |
| 2020 | 117,057 | +1.1% |
| 2019 | 115,821 | +0.8% |
| 2018 | 114,860 | +0.4% |
| 2017 | 114,423 | +1.2% |
| 2016 | 113,063 | +1.3% |
| 2015 | 111,665 | +0.8% |
| 2014 | 110,746 | +1.0% |
| 2013 | 109,654 | +0.5% |
| 2012 | 109,139 | +0.6% |
| 2011 | 108,518 | +1.0% |
| 2010 | 107,478 | +1.0% |
| 2009 | 106,456 | +0.9% |
| 2008 | 105,495 | +1.6% |
| 2007 | 103,844 | +1.5% |
| 2006 | 102,275 | +1.6% |
| 2005 | 100,710 | +0.8% |
| 2004 | 99,943 | +1.4% |
| 2003 | 98,593 | +1.7% |
| 2002 | 96,898 | +2.7% |
| 2001 | 94,378 | — |
Food businesses
North Kesteven has 74 takeaways, 136 restaurants and cafés and 99 pubs and bars on the FSA's statutory register (as of July 2026) — 0.54 takeaways per restaurant against an English average of 0.49, and 6.0 takeaways per 10,000 residents. How that compares across England.
High street businesses
North Kesteven has 50 hairdressers and beauty salons, 60 pubs and bars, 25 licensed restaurants, 60 takeaways on the ONS business register (2025). Compare across the UK.
Rounded to the nearest 5, which is how ONS protects individual businesses from being identified.