Blackburn
TownTown in Blackburn with Darwen, North West.
Blackburn is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Blackburn 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 Blackburn live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Blackburn compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Blackburn safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Blackburn at a rate of 111.8 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, 1,347 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Blackburn.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (5,725), anti-social behaviour (2,922) and other crime (2,428).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Blackburn was 122.2 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 Blackburn, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Blackburn has no single figure. Of its 72 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 30 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 13 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Blackburn
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blackburn with Darwen 001A | 1,602 | 61.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.9% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 001B | 2,286 | 95.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.8% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 001C | 1,701 | 102.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.2% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 001D | 1,615 | 46.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 84.7% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 001E | 1,881 | 43.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 001F | 1,737 | 73.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.1% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 002A | 1,356 | 23.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 002B | 1,667 | 37.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 89.5% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 002C | 2,015 | 30.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.1% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 002D | 2,347 | 64.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.7% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 002E | 2,213 | 53.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 003A | 1,477 | 65.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.7% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 003B | 2,041 | 41.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.6% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 003C | 2,006 | 60.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 90.8% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 003D | 2,355 | 42.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.0% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 003E | 1,758 | 59.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 95.6% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 004A | 1,783 | 70.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 004B | 2,206 | 69.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 004C | 1,908 | 50.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.8% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 004D | 2,122 | 35.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.2% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 005A | 1,812 | 44.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.6% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 005B | 1,720 | 139.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.5% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 005C | 1,834 | 146.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.6% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 005D | 2,120 | 65.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.9% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 005E | 1,921 | 96.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.9% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 006A | 1,300 | 365.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 87.4% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 006B | 1,447 | 226.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 95.0% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 006C | 1,653 | 327.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 87.4% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 006D | 2,467 | 347.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 93.8% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 006E | 2,204 | 469.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 86.9% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 007A | 1,766 | 60.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.8% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 007B | 1,458 | 141.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 007C | 1,762 | 57.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.6% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 007D | 1,296 | 209.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 90.8% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 007E | 2,294 | 36.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 008A | 1,816 | 98.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.6% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 008B | 1,738 | 166.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.7% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 008C | 1,637 | 211.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.4% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 008D | 2,036 | 240.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 008E | 1,999 | 98.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 008F | 1,856 | 78.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.8% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 009A | 2,175 | 153.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 93.6% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 009B | 2,057 | 99.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.9% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 009C | 1,596 | 264.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 009D | 1,402 | 146.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 009E | 1,449 | 159.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.9% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 009F | 1,810 | 164.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.2% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 010A | 1,609 | 52.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 75.8% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 010B | 1,552 | 48.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 94.9% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 010C | 1,269 | 29.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 92.8% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 010D | 1,074 | 66.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 63.7% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 010E | 1,378 | 45.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 010F | 1,857 | 56.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 011A | 1,332 | 146.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.7% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 011B | 1,550 | 135.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 011C | 1,577 | 48.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 89.4% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 011D | 1,734 | 129.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.5% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 011E | 1,655 | 65.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.7% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 011F | 2,219 | 318.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 90.0% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 012A | 1,396 | 172.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 80.4% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 012B | 1,522 | 91.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 012C | 1,397 | 159.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 012D | 1,462 | 48.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 97.9% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 012E | 1,499 | 88.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 82.7% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 013A | 1,609 | 165.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.1% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 013B | 1,659 | 70.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.5% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 013C | 2,936 | 30.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 90.7% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 013D | 1,307 | 122.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.9% |
| Hyndburn 009C | 1,575 | 32.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.9% |
| Ribble Valley 008B | 1,441 | 24.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 93.5% |
| Ribble Valley 008F | 1,487 | 40.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 86.9% |
| Ribble Valley 008H | 2,082 | 22.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 81.8% |
Your MP
- Mr Adnan HussainIndependentMP for Blackburn
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 Blackburn3
Middle areas in Blackburn13
Towns near Blackburn6
Blackburn in brief
Blackburn is a town in Blackburn with Darwen, North West.
About 131,614 people lived in Blackburn in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £175,000 in 2025 across 1,488 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 111.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Blackburn was £175,000 in 2025.
Blackburn had 124,958 usual residents at the census.
About 97% of people in Blackburn live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Blackburn, 96.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.