Bacup
TownTown in Rossendale, North West.
Bacup is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Bacup 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 88% of people in Bacup live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Bacup compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Bacup safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Bacup at a rate of 115.2 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, 123 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Bacup.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (654), anti-social behaviour (304) and other crime (240).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Bacup was 127.7 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 Bacup, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Bacup has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Bacup
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rossendale 003B | 1,693 | 116.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.9% |
| Rossendale 003C | 1,324 | 259.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 89.9% |
| Rossendale 003D | 1,588 | 134.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.0% |
| Rossendale 003E | 1,752 | 178.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.9% |
| Rossendale 003F | 2,924 | 43.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.8% |
| Rossendale 010G | 1,464 | 94.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.2% |
| Rossendale 010H | 1,426 | 77.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.3% |
| Rossendale 010I | 1,067 | 97.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.0% |
Your MP
- Andy MacNaeLabourMP for Rossendale and Darwen
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 Bacup1
Middle areas in Bacup1
Towns near Bacup6
Bacup in brief
Bacup is a town in Rossendale, North West.
About 13,927 people lived in Bacup in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £153,250 in 2025 across 216 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 115.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Bacup was £153,250 in 2025.
Bacup had 13,559 usual residents at the census.
About 88% of people in Bacup live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Bacup, 97.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.