Clitheroe
TownTown in Ribble Valley, North West.
Clitheroe is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Clitheroe 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 Clitheroe live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Clitheroe compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Clitheroe safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Clitheroe at a rate of 59.6 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, 83 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Clitheroe.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (396), anti-social behaviour (278) and other crime (171).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Clitheroe was 63.3 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 Clitheroe, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Clitheroe has no single figure. Of its 10 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 2 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 Clitheroe
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ribble Valley 002A | 2,080 | 82.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 92.4% |
| Ribble Valley 002B | 1,304 | 37.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.2% |
| Ribble Valley 002C | 1,511 | 20.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 93.7% |
| Ribble Valley 002D | 1,482 | 124.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.2% |
| Ribble Valley 002E | 1,783 | 60.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.4% |
| Ribble Valley 003A | 2,269 | 31.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 93.7% |
| Ribble Valley 003B | 1,527 | 24.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 89.2% |
| Ribble Valley 003C | 1,310 | 107.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 91.9% |
| Ribble Valley 003D | 1,542 | 97.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.8% |
| Ribble Valley 003E | 2,331 | 35.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.6% |
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 Clitheroe1
Middle areas in Clitheroe2
Towns near Clitheroe6
Clitheroe in brief
Clitheroe is a town in Ribble Valley, North West.
About 18,192 people lived in Clitheroe in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £235,000 in 2025 across 327 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 59.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Clitheroe was £235,000 in 2025.
Clitheroe had 16,626 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Clitheroe live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Clitheroe, 95.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.