Little Lever
TownTown in Bolton and Bury, North West.
Little Lever is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Little Lever 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 Little Lever live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Little Lever compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Little Lever?
Little Lever had 12,524 usual residents at the census.
Little Lever is the 380th least populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Deprivation in Little Lever, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Little Lever has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Little Lever
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bolton 024A | 1,539 | No figure | 2 | 99.8% |
| Bolton 024B | 1,435 | No figure | 6 | 100.0% |
| Bolton 024C | 1,955 | No figure | 4 | 99.9% |
| Bolton 024D | 1,170 | No figure | 8 | 99.8% |
| Bolton 024E | 1,274 | No figure | 8 | 99.4% |
| Bolton 024F | 1,467 | No figure | 3 | 99.3% |
| Bolton 024G | 1,225 | No figure | 8 | 100.0% |
| Bury 012B | 1,278 | No figure | 9 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Kirith EntwistleLabourMP for Bolton North East
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 Little Lever sits in2
Postcode districts covering Little Lever2
Middle areas in Little Lever1
Towns near Little Lever6
Little Lever in brief
Little Lever is a town in Bolton and Bury, North West.
About 12,588 people lived in Little Lever in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £228,000 in 2025 across 149 sales (HM Land Registry).
The median price paid for a home in Little Lever was £228,000 in 2025.
Little Lever had 12,524 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Little Lever live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Little Lever, 99.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.