Adlington
TownTown in Chorley, North West.
Adlington is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Adlington 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 97% of people in Adlington live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Adlington compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Adlington safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Adlington at a rate of 59.9 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, 72 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Adlington.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (227), anti-social behaviour (139) and other crime (68).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Adlington was 56.1 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 Adlington, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Adlington has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Adlington
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chorley 014A | 2,714 | 64.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 94.4% |
| Chorley 014B | 1,717 | 41.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 93.6% |
| Chorley 014C | 1,727 | 116.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 94.7% |
| Chorley 014D | 1,744 | 36.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 91.1% |
| Chorley 014E | 2,122 | 65.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 72.0% |
Your MP
- Sir Lindsay HoyleSpeakerMP for Chorley
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 Adlington2
Middle areas in Adlington1
Towns near Adlington6
Adlington in brief
Adlington is a town in Chorley, North West.
About 8,895 people lived in Adlington in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £216,250 in 2025 across 126 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 59.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Adlington was £216,250 in 2025.
Adlington had 8,777 usual residents at the census.
About 97% of people in Adlington live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Adlington, 94.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.