Longridge
TownTown in Ribble Valley, North West.
Longridge is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Longridge 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 82% of people in Longridge live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Longridge compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Longridge safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Longridge at a rate of 66.2 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, 70 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Longridge.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (284), anti-social behaviour (126) and other crime (104).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Longridge was 79.4 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 Longridge, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Longridge has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Longridge
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ribble Valley 004B | 1,688 | 80.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 86.9% |
| Ribble Valley 004C | 1,289 | 20.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 77.3% |
| Ribble Valley 006A | 1,654 | 64.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 86.0% |
| Ribble Valley 006B | 1,072 | 85.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 91.8% |
| Ribble Valley 006C | 1,523 | 119.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 87.9% |
| Ribble Valley 006D | 1,494 | 29.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.5% |
Your MP
- Maya EllisLabourMP for Ribble Valley
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 Longridge1
Middle areas in Longridge1
Towns near Longridge6
Longridge in brief
Longridge is a town in Ribble Valley, North West.
About 9,671 people lived in Longridge in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £227,225 in 2025 across 232 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 66.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Longridge was £227,225 in 2025.
Longridge had 8,739 usual residents at the census.
About 82% of people in Longridge live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Longridge, 91.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.