Rawtenstall
TownTown in Rossendale, North West.
Rawtenstall is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Rawtenstall 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 Rawtenstall live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Rawtenstall compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Rawtenstall safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Rawtenstall at a rate of 93.6 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, 185 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Rawtenstall.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (901), anti-social behaviour (479) and other crime (317).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Rawtenstall was 101.6 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 Rawtenstall, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Rawtenstall has no single figure. Of its 14 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Rawtenstall
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rossendale 001A | 2,386 | 31.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.6% |
| Rossendale 001B | 2,036 | 62.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 95.7% |
| Rossendale 001C | 2,038 | 40.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.0% |
| Rossendale 004A | 1,495 | 86.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 91.9% |
| Rossendale 004C | 1,648 | 106.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 94.9% |
| Rossendale 004D | 1,229 | 98.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.7% |
| Rossendale 004F | 1,883 | 74.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 95.7% |
| Rossendale 004G | 2,697 | 200.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 92.2% |
| Rossendale 008D | 1,238 | 88.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 86.8% |
| Rossendale 010A | 1,411 | 122.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.9% |
| Rossendale 010B | 1,454 | 128.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.2% |
| Rossendale 010C | 1,546 | 84.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.7% |
| Rossendale 010D | 1,219 | 87.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 85.8% |
| Rossendale 010E | 1,509 | 61.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.1% |
Your MP
- Andy MacNaeLabourMP for Rossendale and Darwen
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 Rawtenstall1
Middle areas in Rawtenstall3
Towns near Rawtenstall6
Rawtenstall in brief
Rawtenstall is a town in Rossendale, North West.
About 24,669 people lived in Rawtenstall in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £210,000 in 2025 across 401 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 93.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Rawtenstall was £210,000 in 2025.
Rawtenstall had 23,683 usual residents at the census.
About 93% of people in Rawtenstall live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Rawtenstall, 95.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.