Brierfield
TownTown in Pendle, North West.
Brierfield is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Brierfield 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 84% of people in Brierfield live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Brierfield compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Brierfield safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Brierfield at a rate of 94.7 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, 79 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Brierfield.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (455), anti-social behaviour (237) and other crime (167).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Brierfield was 89.8 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 Brierfield, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Brierfield has no single figure. Of its 7 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Brierfield
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pendle 012A | 1,513 | 85.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Pendle 013A | 2,163 | 124.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 95.3% |
| Pendle 013B | 2,011 | 143.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.6% |
| Pendle 013C | 1,600 | 37.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.2% |
| Pendle 013D | 1,534 | 95.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 87.6% |
| Pendle 013E | 1,491 | 57.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.0% |
| Pendle 013F | 1,598 | 106.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Oliver RyanLabour (Co-op)MP for Burnley
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 Brierfield2
Middle areas in Brierfield1
Towns near Brierfield6
Brierfield in brief
Brierfield is a town in Pendle, North West.
About 11,225 people lived in Brierfield in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £170,000 in 2025 across 131 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 94.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Brierfield was £170,000 in 2025.
Brierfield had 10,723 usual residents at the census.
About 84% of people in Brierfield live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Brierfield, 98.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.