Horwich
TownTown in Bolton, North West.
Horwich is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Horwich 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 85% of people in Horwich live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Horwich compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Horwich?
Horwich had 20,703 usual residents at the census.
Horwich is the 527th most populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Deprivation in Horwich, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Horwich has no single figure. Of its 14 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Horwich
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bolton 004A | 1,723 | No figure | 3 | 89.1% |
| Bolton 004B | 1,482 | No figure | 2 | 95.2% |
| Bolton 004C | 1,281 | No figure | 4 | 98.8% |
| Bolton 004D | 1,432 | No figure | 3 | 99.9% |
| Bolton 004E | 1,381 | No figure | 4 | 89.5% |
| Bolton 007A | 1,632 | No figure | 5 | 97.5% |
| Bolton 007B | 2,133 | No figure | 7 | 92.3% |
| Bolton 007C | 1,349 | No figure | 5 | 99.6% |
| Bolton 007D | 1,760 | No figure | 5 | 99.4% |
| Bolton 007E | 1,476 | No figure | 9 | 80.0% |
| Bolton 014A | 2,326 | No figure | 9 | 80.2% |
| Bolton 014B | 1,425 | No figure | 10 | 92.5% |
| Bolton 014C | 1,397 | No figure | 2 | 99.2% |
| Bolton 014D | 1,329 | No figure | 3 | 99.5% |
Your MP
- Phil BrickellLabourMP for Bolton West
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 Horwich1
Middle areas in Horwich3
Towns near Horwich6
Horwich in brief
Horwich is a town in Bolton, North West.
About 21,636 people lived in Horwich in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £245,000 in 2025 across 445 sales (HM Land Registry).
The median price paid for a home in Horwich was £245,000 in 2025.
Horwich had 20,703 usual residents at the census.
About 85% of people in Horwich live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Horwich, 94.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.