Great Harwood
TownTown in Hyndburn, North West.
Great Harwood is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Great Harwood 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 76% of people in Great Harwood live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Great Harwood compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Great Harwood safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Great Harwood at a rate of 92.6 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, 71 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Great Harwood.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (434), anti-social behaviour (216) and other crime (152).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Great Harwood was 118.2 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 Great Harwood, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Great Harwood has no single figure. Of its 7 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Great Harwood
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hyndburn 001A | 1,453 | 100.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Hyndburn 001B | 1,596 | 75.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 86.6% |
| Hyndburn 001C | 1,692 | 152.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 94.7% |
| Hyndburn 001D | 1,494 | 84.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.9% |
| Hyndburn 001E | 1,569 | 47.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 91.1% |
| Hyndburn 001F | 1,648 | 87.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.2% |
| Hyndburn 001G | 1,563 | 97.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.3% |
Your MP
- Sarah SmithLabourMP for Hyndburn
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 Great Harwood1
Middle areas in Great Harwood1
Towns near Great Harwood6
Great Harwood in brief
Great Harwood is a town in Hyndburn, North West.
About 11,468 people lived in Great Harwood in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £148,000 in 2025 across 175 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 92.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Great Harwood was £148,000 in 2025.
Great Harwood had 11,022 usual residents at the census.
About 76% of people in Great Harwood live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Great Harwood, 95.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.