Barnoldswick
TownTown in Pendle, North West.
Barnoldswick is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Barnoldswick 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 100% of people in Barnoldswick live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Barnoldswick compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Barnoldswick safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Barnoldswick at a rate of 52.2 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, 42 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Barnoldswick.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (235), anti-social behaviour (126) and other crime (91).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Barnoldswick was 70.2 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 Barnoldswick, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Barnoldswick has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Barnoldswick
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pendle 001A | 1,286 | 25.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.8% |
| Pendle 001B | 1,553 | 55.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.5% |
| Pendle 001C | 1,349 | 33.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.6% |
| Pendle 001D | 1,369 | 27.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.9% |
| Pendle 002A | 1,240 | 29.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.3% |
| Pendle 002B | 1,577 | 128.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.4% |
| Pendle 002C | 1,269 | 27.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 84.0% |
| Pendle 002D | 1,525 | 68.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.7% |
Your MP
- Jonathan HinderLabourMP for Pendle and Clitheroe
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 Barnoldswick1
Middle areas in Barnoldswick2
Towns near Barnoldswick6
Barnoldswick in brief
Barnoldswick is a town in Pendle, North West.
About 10,914 people lived in Barnoldswick in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £150,000 in 2025 across 219 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 52.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Barnoldswick was £150,000 in 2025.
Barnoldswick had 10,915 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Barnoldswick live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Barnoldswick, 98.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.