Farnworth
TownTown in Bolton, North West.
Farnworth is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Farnworth 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 95% of people in Farnworth live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Farnworth compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Farnworth?
Farnworth had 28,761 usual residents at the census.
Farnworth is the 387th most populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Deprivation in Farnworth, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Farnworth has no single figure. Of its 17 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Farnworth
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bolton 027A | 1,604 | No figure | 2 | 94.8% |
| Bolton 027B | 1,481 | No figure | 2 | 98.7% |
| Bolton 027C | 1,537 | No figure | 1 | 95.7% |
| Bolton 027D | 1,902 | No figure | 1 | 97.4% |
| Bolton 029B | 1,694 | No figure | 2 | 97.6% |
| Bolton 029C | 2,021 | No figure | 2 | 100.0% |
| Bolton 029D | 1,669 | No figure | 4 | 99.1% |
| Bolton 029E | 1,479 | No figure | 5 | 84.7% |
| Bolton 032A | 1,586 | No figure | 1 | 98.3% |
| Bolton 032B | 1,506 | No figure | 1 | 96.8% |
| Bolton 032C | 1,470 | No figure | 3 | 96.3% |
| Bolton 032D | 1,847 | No figure | 2 | 98.3% |
| Bolton 033A | 1,962 | No figure | 1 | 99.1% |
| Bolton 033B | 1,436 | No figure | 1 | 99.4% |
| Bolton 033C | 1,586 | No figure | 1 | 99.7% |
| Bolton 033D | 1,755 | No figure | 2 | 100.0% |
| Bolton 033E | 1,967 | No figure | 2 | 99.3% |
Your MP
- Yasmin QureshiLabourMP for Bolton South and Walkden
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 Farnworth2
Middle areas in Farnworth4
Towns near Farnworth6
Farnworth in brief
Farnworth is a town in Bolton, North West.
About 30,381 people lived in Farnworth in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £175,750 in 2025 across 270 sales (HM Land Registry).
The median price paid for a home in Farnworth was £175,750 in 2025.
Farnworth had 28,761 usual residents at the census.
About 95% of people in Farnworth live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Farnworth, 97.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.