Burscough
TownTown in West Lancashire, North West.
Burscough is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Burscough 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 0% of people in Burscough live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Burscough compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Burscough safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Burscough at a rate of 66.4 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, 49 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Burscough.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (250), anti-social behaviour (168) and other crime (84).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Burscough was 72.7 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 Burscough, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Burscough has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Burscough
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Lancashire 004A | 2,415 | 59.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.9% |
| West Lancashire 004B | 2,150 | 36.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.0% |
| West Lancashire 004C | 1,649 | 86.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 94.8% |
| West Lancashire 004D | 1,633 | 108.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 96.7% |
| West Lancashire 004E | 1,775 | 86.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 93.1% |
Your MP
- Ashley DaltonLabourMP for West Lancashire
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 Burscough1
Middle areas in Burscough1
Towns near Burscough6
Burscough in brief
Burscough is a town in West Lancashire, North West.
About 9,362 people lived in Burscough in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £261,995 in 2025 across 227 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 66.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Burscough was £261,995 in 2025.
Burscough had 8,773 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Burscough live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Burscough, 95.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.