Lancaster
TownTown in Lancaster, North West.
Lancaster is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Lancaster 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 96% of people in Lancaster live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Lancaster compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Lancaster safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Lancaster at a rate of 110.1 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, 553 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Lancaster.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,037), anti-social behaviour (1,323) and other crime (942).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Lancaster was 129.4 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 Lancaster, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Lancaster has no single figure. Of its 32 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 5 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Lancaster
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lancaster 011A | 2,182 | 88.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Lancaster 011B | 1,560 | 92.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Lancaster 011C | 1,649 | 211.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 76.4% |
| Lancaster 011D | 1,550 | 102.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Lancaster 011E | 1,342 | 137.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Lancaster 013A | 1,661 | 114.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.9% |
| Lancaster 013B | 1,283 | 117.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 92.8% |
| Lancaster 013C | 2,977 | 58.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.8% |
| Lancaster 013D | 2,120 | 45.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 92.8% |
| Lancaster 014A | 2,206 | 197.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 45.8% |
| Lancaster 014B | 1,378 | 72.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 74.5% |
| Lancaster 014C | 1,966 | 110.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 78.4% |
| Lancaster 014E | 1,674 | 678.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 52.6% |
| Lancaster 014F | 1,861 | 139.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 76.6% |
| Lancaster 015B | 1,325 | 31.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 94.3% |
| Lancaster 015D | 1,478 | 54.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 93.6% |
| Lancaster 015E | 2,303 | 28.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.9% |
| Lancaster 017A | 2,432 | 71.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 91.3% |
| Lancaster 017B | 1,371 | 112.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 95.8% |
| Lancaster 017C | 1,556 | 61.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.8% |
| Lancaster 017D | 1,250 | 27.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 85.6% |
| Lancaster 017E | 1,772 | 99.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 71.7% |
| Lancaster 017F | 1,962 | 43.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 71.8% |
| Lancaster 018A | 1,377 | 27.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Lancaster 018B | 1,365 | 72.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.6% |
| Lancaster 018C | 1,410 | 65.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 89.9% |
| Lancaster 018D | 1,465 | 31.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Lancaster 019D | 1,482 | 30.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 78.4% |
| Lancaster 020F | 1,261 | 66.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.8% |
| Lancaster 020G | 1,289 | 58.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.6% |
| Lancaster 020H | 1,418 | 129.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.8% |
| Lancaster 020I | 1,215 | 218.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 90.0% |
Your MP
- Cat SmithLabourMP for Lancaster and Wyre
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 Lancaster1
Middle areas in Lancaster6
Towns near Lancaster6
Lancaster in brief
Lancaster is a town in Lancaster, North West.
About 53,924 people lived in Lancaster in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £189,475 in 2025 across 720 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 110.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Lancaster was £189,475 in 2025.
Lancaster had 52,646 usual residents at the census.
About 96% of people in Lancaster live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Lancaster, 86.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.