Colne
TownTown in Pendle, North West.
Colne is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Colne 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 91% of people in Colne live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Colne compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Colne safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Colne at a rate of 124.1 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, 180 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Colne.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (901), anti-social behaviour (543) and other crime (348).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Colne was 144.1 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 Colne, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Colne has no single figure. Of its 13 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Colne
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pendle 006A | 1,850 | 34.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 77.0% |
| Pendle 006B | 1,494 | 42.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.3% |
| Pendle 007A | 1,557 | 161.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.3% |
| Pendle 007B | 1,968 | 183.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 90.4% |
| Pendle 007C | 1,898 | 117.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.3% |
| Pendle 014A | 1,208 | 81.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 93.9% |
| Pendle 014B | 1,477 | 89.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.0% |
| Pendle 014C | 1,535 | 165.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.7% |
| Pendle 014D | 1,480 | 64.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 93.6% |
| Pendle 014E | 1,241 | 155.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.8% |
| Pendle 014F | 1,220 | 83.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Pendle 014G | 1,189 | 277.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.9% |
| Pendle 014H | 1,417 | 171.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.5% |
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 Colne1
Middle areas in Colne2
Towns near Colne6
Colne in brief
Colne is a town in Pendle, North West.
About 19,570 people lived in Colne in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £147,500 in 2025 across 324 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 124.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Colne was £147,500 in 2025.
Colne had 18,914 usual residents at the census.
About 91% of people in Colne live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Colne, 96.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.