The district also includes the towns of Bourne, Market Deeping and Stamford, along with numerous villages and surrounding rural areas.

[8] The council has been under no overall control since the 2023 election, being run by a coalition of some of the independent councillors with the Greens, Liberal Democrats and Labour.

It crosses the A1175 at the B1525 junction (the end of the Deepings bypass), then meets the Welland about two miles west of Crowland at a point called Kennulph's Stone.

The boundary follows the Welland to Stamford, briefly following the B1443 (Barnack Road) where it skirts the edge of Burghley Park.

The boundary then follows that of Rutland, crossing the East Coast Main Line at Braceborough and Wilsthorpe and again at Carlby.

At Castle Bytham, the boundary follows the east side of the A1, and crosses the A1 at South Witham, where a little further west is a corner with the district of Melton.

The boundary follows that of Leicestershire along the former Sewstern Lane, which is now the Viking Way where it crosses the eastern end of Saltby Airfield.

The boundary then passes through the former RAF Bottesford, where just north it meets the district of Newark and Sherwood (Staunton) at Three Shire Oak.

It follows Shire Dyke at Claypole, crossing the East Coast Main Line, then briefly follows the River Witham.

The north-west corner of the district is on the River Witham at Claypole just south of Barnby in the Willows.

For Lower Level Super Output Areas (around 1,500 population), there are 18 in the top 10% least deprived in England; around 30,000 people.

[23][24] 18% of companies are in knowledge-based industries, fairly high for the nearby region, but lower than Peterborough or Rutland (both 20%); the UK average is 20%.

Stamford has a presence in the publishing sector, specialising in domestic pets and aviation, helped by the proximity of EMAP in Orton, Peterborough.

The district opened its first purpose-built business innovation centre, called Eventus,[25][26] on the A1175 at Market Deeping in July 2010.

[28] Outside of the main towns, commercial development has been allocated for Colsterworth and the Roseland Business Park[29] at Long Bennington on part of the former RAF Bottesford.

At the 2001 census it was found only 65% of workers work in the district, but 13% go to Peterborough, 3% to Rutland and 2% to North Kesteven.

In 2011, South Kesteven District Council invested £60,000 to transform a patch of wasteland in Greyfriars into a revitalised play area for children.

In terms of television, the area is served by BBC East Midlands and ITV Central broadcast from the Waltham TV transmitter.

[34] With the co-channel interference from the Waltham transmitter, a small number of households in the southern tip of the district are able to receive BBC East and ITV Anglia.

The result went against the views of the local MP Nick Boles who was in favour of a "Remain" vote.

The result was declared at Meres Leisure Centre in Grantham early on Friday 24 June by the "Counting officer" (CO) Beverly Agass.