# Kearsley

Town in Bolton, North West.

Kearsley is a town in Bolton, North West. Median sale price £185,000 in 2025. About 11,218 people.

Town. Code E63001187. In: [Towns](https://openindex.co.uk/places/towns) › [Bolton](https://openindex.co.uk/bolton)

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.

## Key figures

- **Median sale price: £185,000** (2025). The median price paid for a home in Kearsley was £185,000 in 2025. Joint 161st 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/kearsley#f-house-sales-median-price
- **Population: 11,117** (2021). Kearsley had 11,117 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 297th 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/kearsley#f-population
- **People in radon Affected Area squares: 100%** (2022). About 100% of people in Kearsley 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/kearsley#f-radon-affected-share
- **Gigabit broadband coverage: 96.0%** (January 2026). In Kearsley, 96.0% 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/kearsley#f-gigabit-coverage

## On the map

- [Radon Affected Area by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas?place=E63001187) (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.
- [Sales per year by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/house-sales-per-year?place=E63001187) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 160 homes were sold in Kearsley in 2025.
- [Population by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population?place=E63001187) (Census 2021, England and Wales): Kearsley had 11,117 usual residents at the census.
- [Deprivation score by council](https://openindex.co.uk/map/deprivation-score-england?place=E63001187) (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 Kearsley.

## How Kearsley compares

Each town against every other town the measure covers.

| Measure | Kearsley | Rank | Compared with |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Median sale price | £185,000 | joint 40th cheapest | 161 towns, North West · 2025 |
| Population | 11,117 | 25th least populated | 161 towns, North West · 2021 |
| People in radon Affected Area squares | 100% | joint most people in radon Affected Areas | 161 towns, North West · 2022 |
| Gigabit broadband coverage | 96.0% | joint 71st highest | 161 towns, North West · Jan 2026 |

## 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

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

## Neighbourhoods in Kearsley

| Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Bolton 032E](https://openindex.co.uk/bolton/neighbourhood/e01004906) | 1,795 | – | 2 | 97.9% |
| [Bolton 034A](https://openindex.co.uk/bolton/neighbourhood/e01004903) | 1,445 | – | 9 | 90.5% |
| [Bolton 034B](https://openindex.co.uk/bolton/neighbourhood/e01004904) | 1,678 | – | 6 | 90.0% |
| [Bolton 034C](https://openindex.co.uk/bolton/neighbourhood/e01004905) | 1,597 | – | 2 | 99.6% |
| [Bolton 034D](https://openindex.co.uk/bolton/neighbourhood/e01004907) | 1,310 | – | 2 | 94.8% |
| [Bolton 034E](https://openindex.co.uk/bolton/neighbourhood/e01004908) | 1,296 | – | 6 | 97.3% |
| [Bolton 034F](https://openindex.co.uk/bolton/neighbourhood/e01004909) | 1,397 | – | 3 | 100.0% |
| [Bolton 034G](https://openindex.co.uk/bolton/neighbourhood/e01004910) | 2,051 | – | 6 | 94.5% |

## Your MP

- [Bolton South and Walkden](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/bolton-south-and-walkden): Yasmin Qureshi (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 Kearsley

[BL4](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/bl4), [M26](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/m26)

## Middle areas in Kearsley

[Kearsley & Stoneclough](https://openindex.co.uk/bolton/kearsley-and-stoneclough)

## Towns near Kearsley

[Farnworth](https://openindex.co.uk/town/farnworth), [Clifton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/clifton-salford), [Little Hulton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/little-hulton), [Little Lever](https://openindex.co.uk/town/little-lever), [Walkden](https://openindex.co.uk/town/walkden), [Swinton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/swinton-salford)

## 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.

## About

- Type: Town
- Code: E63001187
- Constituency: [Bolton South and Walkden †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/bolton-south-and-walkden)
- Council: [Bolton †](https://openindex.co.uk/bolton)
- Region: [North West](https://openindex.co.uk/north-west)
- Nation: [England](https://openindex.co.uk/england)
- Area: 2.76 km²
- People, mid-2024: 11,218*
- Neighbourhoods: 8
- Output areas: 39

* 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

[Farnworth](https://openindex.co.uk/town/farnworth), [Clifton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/clifton-salford), [Little Hulton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/little-hulton), [Little Lever](https://openindex.co.uk/town/little-lever), [Walkden](https://openindex.co.uk/town/walkden), [Swinton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/swinton-salford)

## Latest updates for Kearsley

- 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/E63001187

## How to cite

Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/town/kearsley, or to one figure with its anchor, https://openindex.co.uk/town/kearsley#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/kearsley