Kirkham
TownTown in Fylde, North West.
Kirkham is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Kirkham 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 0% of people in Kirkham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Kirkham compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Kirkham safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Kirkham at a rate of 80.5 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, 64 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Kirkham.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (317), anti-social behaviour (172) and other crime (134).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Kirkham was 90.5 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 Kirkham, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Kirkham has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Kirkham
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fylde 002A | 1,992 | 47.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 89.7% |
| Fylde 002B | 1,120 | 16.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.2% |
| Fylde 002C | 1,554 | 129.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 92.1% |
| Fylde 002D | 1,538 | 163.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.1% |
| Fylde 003A | 1,730 | 49.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.2% |
| Fylde 003B | 1,680 | 57.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
Your MP
- Mr Andrew SnowdenConservativeMP for Fylde
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 Kirkham1
Middle areas in Kirkham1
Towns near Kirkham6
Kirkham in brief
Kirkham is a town in Fylde, North West.
About 9,263 people lived in Kirkham in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £207,000 in 2025 across 142 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 80.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Kirkham was £207,000 in 2025.
Kirkham had 8,939 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Kirkham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Kirkham, 94.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.