Poulton-le-Fylde
TownTown in Wyre, North West.
Poulton-le-Fylde is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Poulton-le-Fylde 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 Poulton-le-Fylde live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Poulton-le-Fylde compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Poulton-le-Fylde safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Poulton-le-Fylde at a rate of 79.5 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, 124 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Poulton-le-Fylde.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (407), shoplifting (198) and anti-social behaviour (187).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Poulton-le-Fylde was 75.8 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 Poulton-le-Fylde, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Poulton-le-Fylde has no single figure. Of its 7 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 4 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Poulton-le-Fylde
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wyre 013A | 2,452 | 49.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.6% |
| Wyre 013B | 1,587 | 136.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 96.2% |
| Wyre 013D | 1,653 | 149.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.2% |
| Wyre 013E | 1,423 | 184.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 94.6% |
| Wyre 014A | 1,966 | 35.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.2% |
| Wyre 014C | 1,911 | 30.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.7% |
| Wyre 014E | 1,495 | 28.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.4% |
Your MP
- Mr Andrew SnowdenConservativeMP for Fylde
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 Poulton-le-Fylde1
Middle areas in Poulton-le-Fylde2
Towns near Poulton-le-Fylde6
Poulton-le-Fylde in brief
Poulton-le-Fylde is a town in Wyre, North West.
About 13,925 people lived in Poulton-le-Fylde in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £238,498 in 2025 across 328 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 79.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Poulton-le-Fylde was £238,498 in 2025.
Poulton-le-Fylde had 12,792 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Poulton-le-Fylde live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Poulton-le-Fylde, 96.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.