# Great Harwood Town in Hyndburn, North West. Great Harwood is a town in Hyndburn, North West. Median sale price £148,000 in 2025. Recorded crime 92.6 per 1,000 people. About 11,468 people. Town. Code E63000811. In: [Towns](https://openindex.co.uk/places/towns) › [Hyndburn](https://openindex.co.uk/hyndburn) 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. ## Key figures - **Median sale price: £148,000** (2025). The median price paid for a home in Great Harwood was £148,000 in 2025. 49th cheapest of 1,092. Source: Worked out by Open Index from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. Published 28 September 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/great-harwood#f-house-sales-median-price - **Population: 11,022** (2021). Great Harwood had 11,022 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). Joint 292nd least populated of 1,209. Source: Census 2021, England and Wales and Scotland's Census 2022 and Census 2021, Northern Ireland, 2021. Published 21 July 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/great-harwood#f-population - **People in radon Affected Area squares: 76%** (2022). About 76% of people in Great Harwood live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area. UK 44%. Source: Worked out by Open Index from the UKHSA and BGS radon atlas and census output areas. Published 1 December 2022. https://openindex.co.uk/town/great-harwood#f-radon-affected-share - **Gigabit broadband coverage: 95.1%** (January 2026). In Great Harwood, 95.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026 (Ofcom). UK 87.8%. Source: Connected Nations (Ofcom), January 2026. Published 13 May 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/great-harwood#f-gigabit-coverage ## On the map - [Radon Affected Area by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas?place=E63000811) (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. - [Sales per year by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/house-sales-per-year?place=E63000811) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 175 homes were sold in Great Harwood in 2025. - [Crime and ASB by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/recorded-crime?place=E63000811) (Police recorded crime and outcomes (data.police.uk) · August 2026): Crime and anti-social behaviour for Great Harwood. - [Population by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population?place=E63000811) (Census 2021, England and Wales): Great Harwood had 11,022 usual residents at the census. ## How Great Harwood compares Each town against every other town the measure covers. | Measure | Great Harwood | Rank | Compared with | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Median sale price | £148,000 | 14th cheapest | 161 towns, North West · 2025 | | Population | 11,022 | 24th least populated | 161 towns, North West · 2021 | | People in radon Affected Area squares | 76% | 59th most people in radon Affected Areas | 161 towns, North West · 2022 | | Gigabit broadband coverage | 95.1% | joint 63rd lowest | 161 towns, North West · Jan 2026 | ## 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 Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England. ## Neighbourhoods in Great Harwood | Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Hyndburn 001A](https://openindex.co.uk/hyndburn/neighbourhood/e01025060) | 1,453 | 100.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% | | [Hyndburn 001B](https://openindex.co.uk/hyndburn/neighbourhood/e01025061) | 1,596 | 75.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 86.6% | | [Hyndburn 001C](https://openindex.co.uk/hyndburn/neighbourhood/e01025062) | 1,692 | 152.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 94.7% | | [Hyndburn 001D](https://openindex.co.uk/hyndburn/neighbourhood/e01025063) | 1,494 | 84.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.9% | | [Hyndburn 001E](https://openindex.co.uk/hyndburn/neighbourhood/e01025064) | 1,569 | 47.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 91.1% | | [Hyndburn 001F](https://openindex.co.uk/hyndburn/neighbourhood/e01025065) | 1,648 | 87.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.2% | | [Hyndburn 001G](https://openindex.co.uk/hyndburn/neighbourhood/e01025066) | 1,563 | 97.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.3% | ## Your MP - [Hyndburn](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/hyndburn): Sarah Smith (Labour), MP since July 2024. As of 18 October 2026. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API. ## Council [Hyndburn](https://openindex.co.uk/hyndburn) ## Postcode districts covering Great Harwood [BB6](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/bb6) ## Middle areas in Great Harwood [Great Harwood](https://openindex.co.uk/hyndburn/great-harwood) ## Towns near Great Harwood [Clayton-le-Moors](https://openindex.co.uk/town/clayton-le-moors), [Accrington](https://openindex.co.uk/town/accrington), [Blackburn](https://openindex.co.uk/town/blackburn), [Oswaldtwistle](https://openindex.co.uk/town/oswaldtwistle), [Padiham](https://openindex.co.uk/town/padiham), [Burnley](https://openindex.co.uk/burnley) ## 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. ## About - Type: Town - Code: E63000811 - Constituency: [Hyndburn †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/hyndburn) - Council: [Hyndburn †](https://openindex.co.uk/hyndburn) - Region: [North West](https://openindex.co.uk/north-west) - Nation: [England](https://openindex.co.uk/england) - Area: 2.40 km² - People, mid-2024: 11,468* - Neighbourhoods: 7 - Output areas: 38 * People: worked out by Open Index from neighbourhood estimates, shared out by where people lived at the census (by area in Northern Ireland). This area's edges do not follow neighbourhood edges, so the figure is close but not exact. † Best fit: the constituency and council this town mostly lies in. Its edges do not follow theirs. ## Next door [Clayton-le-Moors](https://openindex.co.uk/town/clayton-le-moors), [Accrington](https://openindex.co.uk/town/accrington), [Blackburn](https://openindex.co.uk/town/blackburn), [Oswaldtwistle](https://openindex.co.uk/town/oswaldtwistle), [Padiham](https://openindex.co.uk/town/padiham), [Burnley](https://openindex.co.uk/burnley) ## Latest updates for Great Harwood - Dental practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026. - Schools updated: Ofsted · Oct 2026. - GP practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026. - Schools updated: Department for Education · Oct 2026. The same figures as JSON: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/places/E63000811 ## How to cite Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/town/great-harwood, or to one figure with its anchor, https://openindex.co.uk/town/great-harwood#f-house-sales-median-price. 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