Oswaldtwistle
TownTown in Hyndburn, North West.
Oswaldtwistle is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Oswaldtwistle 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 93% of people in Oswaldtwistle live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Oswaldtwistle compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Oswaldtwistle safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Oswaldtwistle at a rate of 117.5 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, 120 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Oswaldtwistle.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (513), anti-social behaviour (292) and other crime (151).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Oswaldtwistle was 118.3 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 Oswaldtwistle, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Oswaldtwistle has no single figure. Of its 9 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Oswaldtwistle
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hyndburn 005D | 1,608 | 33.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.3% |
| Hyndburn 007A | 1,446 | 146.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.6% |
| Hyndburn 007B | 1,742 | 151.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.3% |
| Hyndburn 007C | 1,256 | 246.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.2% |
| Hyndburn 007D | 1,424 | 100.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.9% |
| Hyndburn 007E | 1,421 | 54.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Hyndburn 009A | 1,566 | 126.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 83.1% |
| Hyndburn 009B | 1,287 | 106.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.3% |
| Hyndburn 009D | 1,463 | 85.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 63.9% |
Your MP
- Sarah SmithLabourMP for Hyndburn
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 Oswaldtwistle2
Middle areas in Oswaldtwistle2
Towns near Oswaldtwistle6
Oswaldtwistle in brief
Oswaldtwistle is a town in Hyndburn, North West.
About 11,385 people lived in Oswaldtwistle in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £145,500 in 2025 across 199 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 117.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Oswaldtwistle was £145,500 in 2025.
Oswaldtwistle had 10,810 usual residents at the census.
About 93% of people in Oswaldtwistle live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Oswaldtwistle, 98.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.