Bamber Bridge
TownTown in South Ribble and Chorley, North West.
Bamber Bridge is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Bamber Bridge 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 28% of people in Bamber Bridge live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Bamber Bridge compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Bamber Bridge safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Bamber Bridge at a rate of 91.6 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, 333 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Bamber Bridge.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,428), anti-social behaviour (808) and other crime (545).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Bamber Bridge was 95.8 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 Bamber Bridge, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Bamber Bridge has no single figure. Of its 28 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 5 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Bamber Bridge
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chorley 001A | 1,178 | 59.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.8% |
| Chorley 001B | 1,220 | 111.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.5% |
| Chorley 001C | 1,382 | 153.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.0% |
| Chorley 001D | 1,549 | 150.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.8% |
| Chorley 003A | 1,218 | 27.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.5% |
| Chorley 003B | 1,305 | 48.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Chorley 003C | 1,373 | 182.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 92.0% |
| Chorley 004A | 1,690 | 39.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.7% |
| South Ribble 004A | 2,187 | 40.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.7% |
| South Ribble 004B | 1,344 | 155.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.0% |
| South Ribble 004C | 1,366 | 21.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| South Ribble 004D | 1,209 | 50.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| South Ribble 004E | 1,021 | 75.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 92.5% |
| South Ribble 005A | 2,206 | 59.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.1% |
| South Ribble 006A | 1,413 | 64.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 92.5% |
| South Ribble 007A | 1,184 | 18.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| South Ribble 007B | 1,233 | 217.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 93.6% |
| South Ribble 007C | 1,130 | 89.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.7% |
| South Ribble 007D | 1,910 | 133.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.7% |
| South Ribble 008A | 1,406 | 215.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.8% |
| South Ribble 008B | 2,111 | 117.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 87.7% |
| South Ribble 008C | 1,585 | 69.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 90.0% |
| South Ribble 008D | 1,951 | 132.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 96.9% |
| South Ribble 009A | 1,028 | 110.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.5% |
| South Ribble 009B | 1,276 | 67.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.4% |
| South Ribble 009C | 1,252 | 87.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| South Ribble 009D | 1,949 | 17.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.5% |
| South Ribble 009E | 2,026 | 41.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.5% |
Your MP
- Maya EllisLabourMP for Ribble Valley
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Councils Bamber Bridge sits in2
Postcode districts covering Bamber Bridge3
Middle areas in Bamber Bridge6
Towns near Bamber Bridge6
Bamber Bridge in brief
Bamber Bridge is a town in South Ribble and Chorley, North West.
About 41,858 people lived in Bamber Bridge in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £210,000 in 2025 across 705 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 91.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Bamber Bridge was £210,000 in 2025.
Bamber Bridge had 40,359 usual residents at the census.
About 28% of people in Bamber Bridge live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Bamber Bridge, 96.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.