Kearsley
TownTown in Bolton, North West.
Kearsley is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Kearsley 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 100% of people in Kearsley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Kearsley compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Kearsley?
Kearsley had 11,117 usual residents at the census.
Kearsley is the 297th least populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Deprivation in Kearsley, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Kearsley has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Kearsley
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bolton 032E | 1,795 | No figure | 2 | 97.9% |
| Bolton 034A | 1,445 | No figure | 9 | 90.5% |
| Bolton 034B | 1,678 | No figure | 6 | 90.0% |
| Bolton 034C | 1,597 | No figure | 2 | 99.6% |
| Bolton 034D | 1,310 | No figure | 2 | 94.8% |
| Bolton 034E | 1,296 | No figure | 6 | 97.3% |
| Bolton 034F | 1,397 | No figure | 3 | 100.0% |
| Bolton 034G | 2,051 | No figure | 6 | 94.5% |
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 Kearsley2
Middle areas in Kearsley1
Towns near Kearsley6
Kearsley in brief
Kearsley is a town in Bolton, North West.
About 11,218 people lived in Kearsley in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £185,000 in 2025 across 160 sales (HM Land Registry).
The median price paid for a home in Kearsley was £185,000 in 2025.
Kearsley had 11,117 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Kearsley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Kearsley, 96.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.