Penwortham
TownTown in South Ribble, North West.
Penwortham is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Penwortham 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 Penwortham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Penwortham compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Penwortham safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Penwortham at a rate of 59.5 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, 109 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Penwortham.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (556), anti-social behaviour (268) and other crime (166).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Penwortham was 63.4 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 Penwortham, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Penwortham has no single figure. Of its 13 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 7 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Penwortham
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Ribble 001A | 1,291 | 34.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.4% |
| South Ribble 001B | 1,273 | 20.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.6% |
| South Ribble 001C | 1,234 | 49.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.7% |
| South Ribble 001D | 1,537 | 17.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 95.5% |
| South Ribble 003A | 1,382 | 61.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.7% |
| South Ribble 003B | 1,271 | 118.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.5% |
| South Ribble 003C | 1,341 | 29.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.6% |
| South Ribble 003D | 1,895 | 22.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.7% |
| South Ribble 005B | 1,543 | 82.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 86.2% |
| South Ribble 005E | 1,932 | 49.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.0% |
| South Ribble 006B | 1,387 | 65.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.6% |
| South Ribble 006C | 1,495 | 132.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.1% |
| South Ribble 006D | 1,363 | 117.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
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 Penwortham1
Middle areas in Penwortham4
Towns near Penwortham6
Penwortham in brief
Penwortham is a town in South Ribble, North West.
About 20,846 people lived in Penwortham in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £225,000 in 2025 across 301 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 59.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Penwortham was £225,000 in 2025.
Penwortham had 20,489 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Penwortham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Penwortham, 97.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.