# Horwich

Town in Bolton, North West.

Horwich is a town in Bolton, North West. Median sale price £245,000 in 2025. About 21,636 people.

Town. Code E63001095. In: [Towns](https://openindex.co.uk/places/towns) › [Bolton](https://openindex.co.uk/bolton)

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.

## Key figures

- **Median sale price: £245,000** (2025). The median price paid for a home in Horwich was £245,000 in 2025. Joint 443rd 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/horwich#f-house-sales-median-price
- **Population: 20,703** (2021). Horwich had 20,703 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 527th most 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/horwich#f-population
- **People in radon Affected Area squares: 85%** (2022). About 85% of people in Horwich 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/horwich#f-radon-affected-share
- **Gigabit broadband coverage: 94.3%** (January 2026). In Horwich, 94.3% 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/horwich#f-gigabit-coverage

## On the map

- [Radon Affected Area by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas?place=E63001095) (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.
- [Sales per year by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/house-sales-per-year?place=E63001095) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 445 homes were sold in Horwich in 2025.
- [Population by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population?place=E63001095) (Census 2021, England and Wales): Horwich had 20,703 usual residents at the census.
- [Deprivation score by council](https://openindex.co.uk/map/deprivation-score-england?place=E63001095) (English Indices of Deprivation 2025): Published for whole councils, so the map colours all of Bolton, where most of this town lies. The outline is Horwich.

## How Horwich compares

Each town against every other town the measure covers.

| Measure | Horwich | Rank | Compared with |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Median sale price | £245,000 | joint 55th most expensive | 161 towns, North West · 2025 |
| Population | 20,703 | 74th least populated | 161 towns, North West · 2021 |
| People in radon Affected Area squares | 85% | 50th most people in radon Affected Areas | 161 towns, North West · 2022 |
| Gigabit broadband coverage | 94.3% | joint 50th lowest | 161 towns, North West · Jan 2026 |

## 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

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.

## Neighbourhoods in Horwich

| Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Bolton 004A](https://openindex.co.uk/bolton/neighbourhood/e01004777) | 1,723 | – | 3 | 89.1% |
| [Bolton 004B](https://openindex.co.uk/bolton/neighbourhood/e01004881) | 1,482 | – | 2 | 95.2% |
| [Bolton 004C](https://openindex.co.uk/bolton/neighbourhood/e01004888) | 1,281 | – | 4 | 98.8% |
| [Bolton 004D](https://openindex.co.uk/bolton/neighbourhood/e01004889) | 1,432 | – | 3 | 99.9% |
| [Bolton 004E](https://openindex.co.uk/bolton/neighbourhood/e01004890) | 1,381 | – | 4 | 89.5% |
| [Bolton 007A](https://openindex.co.uk/bolton/neighbourhood/e01004779) | 1,632 | – | 5 | 97.5% |
| [Bolton 007B](https://openindex.co.uk/bolton/neighbourhood/e01004781) | 2,133 | – | 7 | 92.3% |
| [Bolton 007C](https://openindex.co.uk/bolton/neighbourhood/e01004882) | 1,349 | – | 5 | 99.6% |
| [Bolton 007D](https://openindex.co.uk/bolton/neighbourhood/e01004883) | 1,760 | – | 5 | 99.4% |
| [Bolton 007E](https://openindex.co.uk/bolton/neighbourhood/e01004884) | 1,476 | – | 9 | 80.0% |
| [Bolton 014A](https://openindex.co.uk/bolton/neighbourhood/e01004775) | 2,326 | – | 9 | 80.2% |
| [Bolton 014B](https://openindex.co.uk/bolton/neighbourhood/e01004885) | 1,425 | – | 10 | 92.5% |
| [Bolton 014C](https://openindex.co.uk/bolton/neighbourhood/e01004886) | 1,397 | – | 2 | 99.2% |
| [Bolton 014D](https://openindex.co.uk/bolton/neighbourhood/e01004887) | 1,329 | – | 3 | 99.5% |

## Your MP

- [Bolton West](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/bolton-west): Phil Brickell (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

[Bolton](https://openindex.co.uk/bolton)

## Postcode districts covering Horwich

[BL6](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/bl6)

## Middle areas in Horwich

[Horwich East](https://openindex.co.uk/bolton/horwich-east), [Horwich North](https://openindex.co.uk/bolton/horwich-north), [Horwich South & Middlebrook](https://openindex.co.uk/bolton/horwich-south-and-middlebrook)

## Towns near Horwich

[Bolton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/bolton), [Adlington](https://openindex.co.uk/town/adlington), [Westhoughton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/westhoughton), [Atherton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/atherton), [Wigan](https://openindex.co.uk/town/wigan), [Hindley](https://openindex.co.uk/town/hindley)

## 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.

## About

- Type: Town
- Code: E63001095
- Constituency: [Bolton West †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/bolton-west)
- Council: [Bolton †](https://openindex.co.uk/bolton)
- Region: [North West](https://openindex.co.uk/north-west)
- Nation: [England](https://openindex.co.uk/england)
- Area: 6.62 km²
- People, mid-2024: 21,636*
- Neighbourhoods: 14
- Output areas: 70

* 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

[Bolton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/bolton), [Adlington](https://openindex.co.uk/town/adlington), [Westhoughton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/westhoughton), [Atherton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/atherton), [Wigan](https://openindex.co.uk/town/wigan), [Hindley](https://openindex.co.uk/town/hindley)

## Latest updates for Horwich

- 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/E63001095

## How to cite

Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/town/horwich, or to one figure with its anchor, https://openindex.co.uk/town/horwich#f-house-sales-median-price.

Open Index's own text and the figures it works out are licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Source data keeps its publishers' licences, named with each figure. Give each figure's period and source with it.

Snapshot 2026.10.8, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23508850. The HTML page: https://openindex.co.uk/town/horwich