Bolton

Town

Town in Bolton, North West.

Bolton is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Bolton 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.

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Radon Affected Area by town

Worked out by Open Index · 2022

Under 1%90% or more

About 94% of people in Bolton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Median sale price

£200,000

Joint 230th cheapest of 1,092

Worked out by Open Index

Population

184,077

60th most populated of 1,209

ONS Census 2021 · 2021

Gigabit broadband coverage

94.7%

UK 87.8%

Ofcom · Jan 2026

How Bolton compares

Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.

BoltonMiddle

Median sale price161 towns, North West · 2025

£200,000joint 55th cheapest

Population161 towns, North West · 2021

184,0773rd most populated

People in radon Affected Area squares161 towns, North West · 2022

94%joint 38th most people in radon Affected Areas

Gigabit broadband coverage161 towns, North West · Jan 2026

94.7%joint 55th lowest

What is the population of Bolton?

Bolton had 184,077 usual residents at the census.

Bolton is the 60th most populated of 1,209 in the UK.

Deprivation in Bolton, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Bolton has no single figure. Of its 108 neighbourhoods with a rank:
Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 38 neighbourhoods
Decile 2: 18 neighbourhoods
Decile 3: 8 neighbourhoods
Decile 4: 8 neighbourhoods
Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
Decile 6: 9 neighbourhoods
Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
Decile 8: 6 neighbourhoods
Decile 9: 8 neighbourhoods
Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 9 neighbourhoods

English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.

Neighbourhoods in Bolton

Name	People (census)	Recorded crime per 1,000	Deprivation decile	Gigabit broadband
Bolton 001A	1,593	No figure	10	90.6%
Bolton 001B	1,620	No figure	9	87.5%
Bolton 001C	1,468	No figure	10	95.8%
Bolton 001D	1,377	No figure	9	99.8%
Bolton 001E	1,618	No figure	10	93.3%
Bolton 002A	1,359	No figure	10	99.7%
Bolton 002B	1,418	No figure	6	95.3%
Bolton 002C	1,566	No figure	10	94.6%
Bolton 002D	1,517	No figure	8	93.8%
Bolton 002E	1,557	No figure	9	98.9%
Bolton 003A	1,503	No figure	9	90.7%
Bolton 003B	1,521	No figure	8	99.8%
Bolton 003C	1,685	No figure	9	99.7%
Bolton 003D	1,965	No figure	6	99.9%
Bolton 003E	1,723	No figure	4	99.5%
Bolton 005A	1,658	No figure	3	98.8%
Bolton 005B	1,890	No figure	4	87.2%
Bolton 005C	1,846	No figure	2	99.9%
Bolton 005D	1,765	No figure	3	99.7%
Bolton 005E	1,884	No figure	2	95.9%
Bolton 006A	1,194	No figure	10	97.9%
Bolton 006B	1,523	No figure	4	98.7%
Bolton 006C	1,450	No figure	7	93.9%
Bolton 006D	1,453	No figure	9	78.2%
Bolton 006E	1,323	No figure	8	94.1%
Bolton 006F	1,409	No figure	10	98.8%
Bolton 008A	1,464	No figure	4	98.2%
Bolton 008B	1,551	No figure	2	99.8%
Bolton 008C	1,633	No figure	4	99.9%
Bolton 008D	1,571	No figure	9	93.2%
Bolton 008E	1,592	No figure	6	100.0%
Bolton 010A	1,973	No figure	1	100.0%
Bolton 010B	1,432	No figure	1	100.0%
Bolton 010C	2,301	No figure	1	97.2%
Bolton 010D	2,728	No figure	3	98.8%
Bolton 011A	1,790	No figure	1	97.0%
Bolton 011B	1,971	No figure	1	99.9%
Bolton 011C	1,667	No figure	1	99.6%
Bolton 011D	1,581	No figure	2	99.8%
Bolton 011E	2,038	No figure	1	99.6%
Bolton 012A	1,736	No figure	5	82.4%
Bolton 012B	1,746	No figure	1	100.0%
Bolton 012C	1,713	No figure	10	95.4%
Bolton 012D	1,509	No figure	6	99.9%
Bolton 012E	1,642	No figure	4	99.2%
Bolton 013A	1,708	No figure	1	98.2%
Bolton 013B	1,747	No figure	1	100.0%
Bolton 013C	2,122	No figure	1	99.6%
Bolton 013D	1,504	No figure	2	98.6%
Bolton 013E	1,492	No figure	1	99.6%
Bolton 015A	2,163	No figure	2	100.0%
Bolton 015B	2,188	No figure	1	92.2%
Bolton 015C	2,015	No figure	1	97.3%
Bolton 015D	1,815	No figure	1	99.7%
Bolton 015E	2,254	No figure	2	97.4%
Bolton 016B	1,851	No figure	1	96.0%
Bolton 016C	2,047	No figure	1	93.2%
Bolton 016D	2,090	No figure	1	65.0%
Bolton 016E	1,227	No figure	1	51.1%
Bolton 016F	1,314	No figure	1	67.9%
Bolton 017A	1,722	No figure	1	98.3%
Bolton 017B	1,518	No figure	3	97.0%
Bolton 017C	1,378	No figure	1	99.2%
Bolton 017D	1,514	No figure	6	99.1%
Bolton 017E	1,564	No figure	2	97.9%
Bolton 017F	1,482	No figure	2	97.4%
Bolton 018A	1,745	No figure	2	100.0%
Bolton 018B	2,010	No figure	1	98.6%
Bolton 018C	1,558	No figure	8	99.5%
Bolton 018D	1,872	No figure	6	81.2%
Bolton 018E	1,675	No figure	3	98.6%
Bolton 019A	1,576	No figure	3	96.3%
Bolton 019B	1,613	No figure	2	96.3%
Bolton 019C	1,273	No figure	8	99.2%
Bolton 019D	1,294	No figure	7	100.0%
Bolton 019E	1,674	No figure	1	99.9%
Bolton 019F	2,298	No figure	3	92.7%
Bolton 020A	1,461	No figure	7	99.8%
Bolton 020B	1,744	No figure	6	99.5%
Bolton 020C	1,561	No figure	9	93.9%
Bolton 020D	1,573	No figure	10	95.7%
Bolton 020E	1,013	No figure	8	100.0%
Bolton 021A	1,990	No figure	1	99.8%
Bolton 021B	1,794	No figure	1	94.3%
Bolton 021C	2,293	No figure	1	99.5%
Bolton 021D	1,691	No figure	1	88.9%
Bolton 021E	1,575	No figure	1	98.5%
Bolton 022A	1,845	No figure	1	95.5%
Bolton 022B	2,402	No figure	1	82.5%
Bolton 022C	1,746	No figure	2	100.0%
Bolton 022D	1,786	No figure	2	100.0%
Bolton 022E	2,064	No figure	2	67.0%
Bolton 023A	2,017	No figure	1	97.6%
Bolton 023B	1,458	No figure	1	98.2%
Bolton 023C	1,641	No figure	2	100.0%
Bolton 023D	1,658	No figure	2	99.3%
Bolton 023E	1,697	No figure	3	99.6%
Bolton 025A	1,410	No figure	1	100.0%
Bolton 025B	2,282	No figure	1	100.0%
Bolton 025C	1,732	No figure	2	92.0%
Bolton 025D	2,074	No figure	1	99.9%
Bolton 025E	1,657	No figure	2	100.0%
Bolton 026A	1,754	No figure	1	94.6%
Bolton 026B	1,827	No figure	4	99.0%
Bolton 026C	1,530	No figure	6	80.3%
Bolton 026D	2,370	No figure	1	99.5%
Bolton 029A	2,939	No figure	4	100.0%
Bolton 030D	1,615	No figure	6	99.7%

Your MP

Kirith EntwistleLabourMP for Bolton North East

As of 18 October 2026, from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.

Council1

Bolton

Postcode districts covering Bolton5

Towns near Bolton6

Bolton in brief

Bolton is a town in Bolton, North West.

About 194,118 people lived in Bolton in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £200,000 in 2025 across 1,851 sales (HM Land Registry).

The median price paid for a home in Bolton was £200,000 in 2025.