Westhoughton
TownTown in Bolton, North West.
Westhoughton is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Westhoughton 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 46% of people in Westhoughton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Westhoughton compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Westhoughton?
Westhoughton had 21,969 usual residents at the census.
Westhoughton is the 498th most populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Deprivation in Westhoughton, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Westhoughton has no single figure. Of its 14 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- 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 Westhoughton
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bolton 028A | 1,540 | No figure | 6 | 99.7% |
| Bolton 028B | 1,525 | No figure | 10 | 98.9% |
| Bolton 028C | 1,925 | No figure | 6 | 98.5% |
| Bolton 028E | 1,764 | No figure | 10 | 99.1% |
| Bolton 028F | 1,574 | No figure | 8 | 96.1% |
| Bolton 031B | 1,326 | No figure | 3 | 99.8% |
| Bolton 031C | 2,170 | No figure | 4 | 99.4% |
| Bolton 031D | 1,548 | No figure | 1 | 99.1% |
| Bolton 031E | 1,599 | No figure | 3 | 99.5% |
| Bolton 035A | 1,314 | No figure | 6 | 99.7% |
| Bolton 035B | 1,442 | No figure | 5 | 98.4% |
| Bolton 035C | 1,838 | No figure | 8 | 97.7% |
| Bolton 035D | 1,637 | No figure | 9 | 94.9% |
| Bolton 035E | 1,431 | No figure | 7 | 99.8% |
Your MP
- Phil BrickellLabourMP for Bolton West
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 Westhoughton1
Middle areas in Westhoughton3
Towns near Westhoughton6
Westhoughton in brief
Westhoughton is a town in Bolton, North West.
About 22,743 people lived in Westhoughton in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £249,998 in 2025 across 416 sales (HM Land Registry).
The median price paid for a home in Westhoughton was £249,998 in 2025.
Westhoughton had 21,969 usual residents at the census.
About 46% of people in Westhoughton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Westhoughton, 99.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.