Accrington
TownTown in Hyndburn, North West.
Accrington is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Accrington add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 90% of people in Accrington live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Accrington compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Accrington safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Accrington at a rate of 148.9 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 92.4 per 1,000 people across North West.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 483 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Accrington.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,053), anti-social behaviour (1,156) and other crime (778).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Accrington was 159.7 per 1,000 people.
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Deprivation in Accrington, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Accrington has no single figure. Of its 21 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 10 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Accrington
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hyndburn 004A | 1,647 | 99.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 83.7% |
| Hyndburn 004B | 1,519 | 38.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.9% |
| Hyndburn 004C | 1,642 | 163.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Hyndburn 004D | 1,432 | 137.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Hyndburn 004E | 1,816 | 91.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.5% |
| Hyndburn 004F | 1,488 | 142.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.4% |
| Hyndburn 004G | 1,563 | 275.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 95.1% |
| Hyndburn 004H | 1,403 | 79.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.2% |
| Hyndburn 006A | 1,710 | 494.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 94.4% |
| Hyndburn 006B | 2,392 | 94.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.2% |
| Hyndburn 006E | 1,704 | 125.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Hyndburn 006F | 2,131 | 138.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.7% |
| Hyndburn 006G | 1,751 | 106.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.2% |
| Hyndburn 006I | 1,701 | 74.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.4% |
| Hyndburn 006J | 2,025 | 172.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.3% |
| Hyndburn 008A | 1,404 | 122.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 84.6% |
| Hyndburn 008B | 1,718 | 470.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 85.8% |
| Hyndburn 008C | 1,585 | 91.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.5% |
| Hyndburn 008D | 1,310 | 22.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.8% |
| Hyndburn 008E | 1,182 | 74.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 72.4% |
| Hyndburn 008F | 1,438 | 42.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.3% |
Your MP
- Sarah SmithLabourMP for Hyndburn
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Accrington1
Middle areas in Accrington3
Towns near Accrington6
Accrington in brief
Accrington is a town in Hyndburn, North West.
About 36,953 people lived in Accrington in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £130,000 in 2025 across 426 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 148.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Accrington was £130,000 in 2025.
Accrington had 34,897 usual residents at the census.
About 90% of people in Accrington live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Accrington, 95.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.