Longton
TownTown in South Ribble, North West.
Longton is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Longton 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 Longton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Longton compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Longton safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Longton at a rate of 30.8 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, 28 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Longton.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (139), anti-social behaviour (83) and other crime (44).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Longton was 41.0 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 Longton, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Longton has no single figure. Of its 7 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 4 neighbourhoods
- 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 Longton
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Ribble 010C | 1,302 | 28.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 83.8% |
| South Ribble 010D | 1,608 | 22.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 21.7% |
| South Ribble 011A | 2,302 | 49.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 7.1% |
| South Ribble 011B | 1,952 | 29.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 0.2% |
| South Ribble 011C | 1,321 | 15.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 55.2% |
| South Ribble 011D | 1,336 | 20.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 14.0% |
| South Ribble 011E | 1,404 | 43.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 47.9% |
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.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Longton1
Middle areas in Longton1
Towns near Longton6
Longton in brief
Longton is a town in South Ribble, North West.
About 11,120 people lived in Longton in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £299,750 in 2025 across 174 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 30.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Longton was £299,750 in 2025.
Longton had 10,912 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Longton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Longton, 35.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.