Chorley
Official open statistics, neighbourhood by neighbourhood · updated
Chorley covers 66 neighbourhoods and about 118,000 people. 3 of them fall in England's most deprived tenth and 8 in the least deprived tenth. The middle neighbourhood pays £167,500 for a home — 30% below the England average of £238,000. Recorded crime runs at about 82.6 offences per 1,000 residents a year — 12% above the England average of 73.8.
Every figure Balworth holds for Chorley
| Measure | Chorley | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Neighbourhoods | 66 | LSOA 2011 boundaries |
| Population | 117,735 | Census 2021, ONS |
| In England's most deprived tenth | 3 of 66 | IoD 2025, MHCLG |
| In England's least deprived tenth | 8 of 66 | IoD 2025, MHCLG |
| Median deprivation decile | 8 of 10 | 1 = most deprived tenth of England |
| Median of neighbourhood median prices | £167,500 | HM Land Registry via ONS |
| Range across neighbourhoods | £79,000 – £326,395 | HM Land Registry via ONS |
| Affordability (price to earnings) | 6.3× | ONS |
| Recorded crime | 82.6 per 1,000 residents/year | data.police.uk, last 12 months |
| Crime severity index | 235.0 per 1,000 residents/year | Balworth, weighted by offence severity |
| Fine particles (PM2.5) | 6.2 µg/m³ (range 5.7–6.4) | Defra background mapping, modelled |
| Residents with a degree | 33% | Census 2021, ONS |
| Homes owned outright or on a mortgage | 82% | Census 2021, ONS |
| Residents aged 65 or over | 21% | Census 2021, ONS |
What these figures do and do not say
Every value on this page describes a neighbourhood of roughly 1,500 people, not a street, a building or a household. Where this page gives one number for Chorley, it is a summary of those neighbourhoods: the median of them for prices and rankings, and a population-weighted average for crime rates. Two houses on the same road can fall in different neighbourhoods.
Deprivation is a relative ranking of areas against each other, not a measure of anyone's circumstances. Every deprived area contains people who are not deprived, and every affluent area contains people who are struggling.
Recorded crime counts offences reported to and recorded by the police, which is not the same as crime committed. Rates are per resident, so a town centre with far more daytime visitors than residents reads worse than the risk to any one person in it.
Read the full data and methodology ↗ — every source, when it was collected, and where it falls down.
Deprivation in more detail
For the official neighbourhood-level deprivation profile of Chorley, including every domain and a postcode lookup, the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government publishes the Local Deprivation Explorer. Balworth shows deprivation alongside prices, crime, air quality and census detail on one map, so you can see where they disagree.