Darwen
TownTown in Blackburn with Darwen, North West.
Darwen is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Darwen 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 Darwen live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Darwen compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Darwen safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Darwen at a rate of 102.6 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, 236 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Darwen.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,265), anti-social behaviour (606) and other crime (417).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Darwen was 118.6 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 Darwen, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Darwen has no single figure. Of its 19 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Darwen
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blackburn with Darwen 014A | 1,373 | 194.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 95.5% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 014B | 1,312 | 181.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 86.7% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 014C | 1,542 | 73.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.1% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 014D | 1,198 | 110.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.6% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 014E | 1,423 | 49.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.5% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 015A | 1,332 | 81.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.1% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 015B | 1,634 | 95.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 93.5% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 015C | 1,546 | 107.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.0% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 015D | 1,462 | 96.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.3% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 016A | 1,538 | 131.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 81.8% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 016B | 1,518 | 49.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.4% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 016C | 1,554 | 94.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 81.3% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 016D | 1,732 | 316.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 82.2% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 017A | 1,659 | 48.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.3% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 017B | 1,375 | 93.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 95.4% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 017C | 1,971 | 38.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 71.5% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 017D | 1,353 | 57.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 83.3% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 017E | 1,116 | 71.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 68.2% |
| Blackburn with Darwen 017F | 1,488 | 67.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 88.1% |
Your MP
- Andy MacNaeLabourMP for Rossendale and Darwen
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 Darwen1
Middle areas in Darwen4
Towns near Darwen6
Darwen in brief
Darwen is a town in Blackburn with Darwen, North West.
About 29,057 people lived in Darwen in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £147,250 in 2025 across 490 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 102.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Darwen was £147,250 in 2025.
Darwen had 27,897 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Darwen live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Darwen, 90.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.