# Little Lever

Town in Bolton and Bury, North West.

Little Lever is a town in Bolton and Bury, North West. Median sale price £228,000 in 2025. About 12,588 people.

Town. Code E63001153. In: [Towns](https://openindex.co.uk/places/towns) › [Bolton](https://openindex.co.uk/bolton)

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.

## Key figures

- **Median sale price: £228,000** (2025). The median price paid for a home in Little Lever was £228,000 in 2025. Joint 375th 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/little-lever#f-house-sales-median-price
- **Population: 12,524** (2021). Little Lever had 12,524 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 380th 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/little-lever#f-population
- **People in radon Affected Area squares: 100%** (2022). About 100% of people in Little Lever 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/little-lever#f-radon-affected-share
- **Gigabit broadband coverage: 99.6%** (January 2026). In Little Lever, 99.6% 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/little-lever#f-gigabit-coverage

## On the map

- [Radon Affected Area by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas?place=E63001153) (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.
- [Sales per year by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/house-sales-per-year?place=E63001153) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 149 homes were sold in Little Lever in 2025.
- [Population by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population?place=E63001153) (Census 2021, England and Wales): Little Lever had 12,524 usual residents at the census.
- [Deprivation score by council](https://openindex.co.uk/map/deprivation-score-england?place=E63001153) (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 Little Lever.

## How Little Lever compares

Each town against every other town the measure covers.

| Measure | Little Lever | Rank | Compared with |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Median sale price | £228,000 | 72nd most expensive | 161 towns, North West · 2025 |
| Population | 12,524 | 35th 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 | 99.6% | highest | 161 towns, North West · Jan 2026 |

## 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

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

## Neighbourhoods in Little Lever

| Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Bolton 024A](https://openindex.co.uk/bolton/neighbourhood/e01004911) | 1,539 | – | 2 | 99.8% |
| [Bolton 024B](https://openindex.co.uk/bolton/neighbourhood/e01004912) | 1,435 | – | 6 | 100.0% |
| [Bolton 024C](https://openindex.co.uk/bolton/neighbourhood/e01004913) | 1,955 | – | 4 | 99.9% |
| [Bolton 024D](https://openindex.co.uk/bolton/neighbourhood/e01004914) | 1,170 | – | 8 | 99.8% |
| [Bolton 024E](https://openindex.co.uk/bolton/neighbourhood/e01004915) | 1,274 | – | 8 | 99.4% |
| [Bolton 024F](https://openindex.co.uk/bolton/neighbourhood/e01004916) | 1,467 | – | 3 | 99.3% |
| [Bolton 024G](https://openindex.co.uk/bolton/neighbourhood/e01004918) | 1,225 | – | 8 | 100.0% |
| [Bury 012B](https://openindex.co.uk/bury/neighbourhood/e01005001) | 1,278 | – | 9 | 100.0% |

## Your MP

- [Bolton North East](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/bolton-north-east): Kirith Entwistle (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.

## Councils Little Lever sits in

[Bolton](https://openindex.co.uk/bolton), [Bury](https://openindex.co.uk/bury)

## Postcode districts covering Little Lever

[BL3](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/bl3), [M26](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/m26)

## Middle areas in Little Lever

[Little Lever](https://openindex.co.uk/bolton/little-lever)

## Towns near Little Lever

[Radcliffe](https://openindex.co.uk/town/radcliffe), [Bolton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/bolton), [Kearsley](https://openindex.co.uk/town/kearsley), [Farnworth](https://openindex.co.uk/town/farnworth), [Bury](https://openindex.co.uk/town/bury), [Little Hulton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/little-hulton)

## 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.

## About

- Type: Town
- Code: E63001153
- Constituency: [Bolton North East †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/bolton-north-east)
- Council: [Bolton †](https://openindex.co.uk/bolton)
- Region: [North West](https://openindex.co.uk/north-west)
- Nation: [England](https://openindex.co.uk/england)
- Area: 2.75 km²
- People, mid-2024: 12,588*
- Neighbourhoods: 8
- Output areas: 42

* 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

[Radcliffe](https://openindex.co.uk/town/radcliffe), [Bolton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/bolton), [Kearsley](https://openindex.co.uk/town/kearsley), [Farnworth](https://openindex.co.uk/town/farnworth), [Bury](https://openindex.co.uk/town/bury), [Little Hulton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/little-hulton)

## Latest updates for Little Lever

- August 2026 house prices published: HM Land Registry and partners · Oct 2026.
- September 2026 rent published: ONS private rents · Oct 2026.
- Dental practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026.
- Schools updated: Ofsted · Oct 2026.

The same figures as JSON: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/places/E63001153

## How to cite

Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/town/little-lever, or to one figure with its anchor, https://openindex.co.uk/town/little-lever#f-house-sales-median-price.

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Snapshot 2026.10.9. The HTML page: https://openindex.co.uk/town/little-lever