Leyland
TownTown in South Ribble and Chorley, North West.
Leyland is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Leyland 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 Leyland live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Leyland compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Leyland safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Leyland at a rate of 88.0 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, 293 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Leyland.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,478), anti-social behaviour (755) and other crime (491).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Leyland was 100.7 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 Leyland, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Leyland has no single figure. Of its 22 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Leyland
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chorley 003D | 1,917 | 23.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.7% |
| Chorley 003E | 2,599 | 37.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.8% |
| Chorley 003F | 1,323 | 112.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.7% |
| South Ribble 012A | 1,495 | 47.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 93.3% |
| South Ribble 012B | 1,427 | 58.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| South Ribble 013A | 2,424 | 77.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 88.4% |
| South Ribble 013B | 1,399 | 231.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 86.1% |
| South Ribble 013C | 1,976 | 177.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.4% |
| South Ribble 013D | 1,559 | 81.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.4% |
| South Ribble 014A | 1,513 | 54.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 87.8% |
| South Ribble 014B | 1,867 | 39.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.4% |
| South Ribble 014C | 1,671 | 114.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 95.3% |
| South Ribble 015A | 1,974 | 45.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.8% |
| South Ribble 015B | 1,304 | 179.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 85.5% |
| South Ribble 015C | 1,422 | 224.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 92.5% |
| South Ribble 015D | 1,423 | 88.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.5% |
| South Ribble 016C | 1,812 | 33.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.1% |
| South Ribble 016F | 2,938 | 45.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.6% |
| South Ribble 017A | 1,597 | 104.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.4% |
| South Ribble 017B | 1,143 | 150.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.8% |
| South Ribble 017C | 1,695 | 110.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.3% |
| South Ribble 017D | 1,901 | 98.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.1% |
Your MP
- Mr Paul FosterLabourMP for South Ribble
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Councils Leyland sits in2
Postcode districts covering Leyland2
Middle areas in Leyland5
Towns near Leyland6
Leyland in brief
Leyland is a town in South Ribble and Chorley, North West.
About 41,910 people lived in Leyland in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £210,000 in 2025 across 674 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 88.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Leyland was £210,000 in 2025.
Leyland had 39,281 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Leyland live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Leyland, 95.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.