Littleborough
TownTown in Rochdale, North West.
Littleborough is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Littleborough 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 Littleborough live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Littleborough compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Littleborough?
Littleborough had 12,164 usual residents at the census.
Littleborough is the 364th least populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Deprivation in Littleborough, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Littleborough has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Littleborough
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rochdale 001B | 1,715 | No figure | 4 | 86.6% |
| Rochdale 001C | 1,484 | No figure | 2 | 81.9% |
| Rochdale 001D | 1,831 | No figure | 6 | 93.1% |
| Rochdale 002A | 1,564 | No figure | 6 | 97.2% |
| Rochdale 002D | 1,548 | No figure | 7 | 97.6% |
| Rochdale 003A | 1,281 | No figure | 6 | 98.7% |
| Rochdale 003B | 1,435 | No figure | 7 | 95.5% |
| Rochdale 003C | 1,452 | No figure | 5 | 64.7% |
Your MP
- Paul WaughLabour (Co-op)MP for Rochdale
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 Littleborough1
Middle areas in Littleborough3
Towns near Littleborough6
Littleborough in brief
Littleborough is a town in Rochdale, North West.
About 12,820 people lived in Littleborough in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £229,000 in 2025 across 222 sales (HM Land Registry).
The median price paid for a home in Littleborough was £229,000 in 2025.
Littleborough had 12,164 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Littleborough live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Littleborough, 91.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.