Bolton (Bolton)

10°COvercast

• Today: 13° / 8° · 25% rain
• Tomorrow: 12° / 7° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:15Sunset 16:31

9h 17m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

22US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Glazebury, United Kingdom

• 6.9 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 5.2% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

1 reported · August 2026

• Violence & sexual offences1

Neighbourhood team: Halliwell · Greater Manchester

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

289 reported road collisions (2025)

98 killed or seriously injured · 381 casualties · 9.8 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

• 331 rated 4–5 ★ (232 top)
• 49 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

• Nearest station: Bolton (1.7 km)
• 72 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£203,951 average▲ 4.8% YoY

Across Bolton · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£894 average monthly rent▲ 11.1% YoY

• 1 bed £654
• 2 bed £815
• 3 bed £989

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

6.2× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 6.2 times median annual pay (5.9× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

3,180 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

• Cheapest petrol: 153.9p · BP (8 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 186.9p · BP (8 km)

21 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

36 charging locations within ~8 km

• 10 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 75 kW
• Nearest: GMEV PAYG Charge Point (0.7 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Gyms5
• Swimming pools1
• Sports pitches31
• Playgrounds20

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

• Bolton opens first Live Well centre· 29 Oct 2026
• Bolton invites residents to honour those who served· 29 Oct 2026
• Bolton Council to consider national changes to planning system· 28 Oct 2026
• Litter and leaves swept up by new investment· 27 Oct 2026
• Warm welcome back as Bolton Council invests in the future· 26 Oct 2026

Source: Bolton Council

295,963 residents in Bolton · 2,117/km²

• Under 16: 22%
• 16–64: 61%
• 65+: 17%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK13,371
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK14,775
• Net moves−1,404

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

Among the most deprived areas in England

Ranked 43 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

26% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,400 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (51% of 128,820)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

146 schools · 53,878 pupils

97 primary · 17 secondary · 32 other

Ofsted: 46 of 49 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (94%)

126 inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Bolton

276 CQC-registered services

• Care homes59
• GP practices62
• Dentists55
• Homecare agencies63
• Hospitals & hospices6

CQC ratings: 94% of rated services Good or Outstanding

Source: Care Quality Commission · Bolton

• Not in the Green Belt
• 121 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

254 applications decided

79.5% granted · 202 granted, 52 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Kirith Entwistle

Labour

Bolton North East

Source: UK Parliament

Labour / Conservative / Liberal Democrat / Independent coalition

• Lab 18
• Con 10
• LD 5
• Grn 4
• Ref 10
• Oth 12

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Schools27
• GPs & clinics12
• Pharmacies6
• Supermarkets9
• Parks & greens16
• Restaurants & cafés177

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

12,405 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

1,226 jobs advertised · £41,068 avg

e.g. Market Research Field Interviewer Car Required Part-time, Recruitment Consultant - Insurance & Risk, Class 2 Driver

Source: Adzuna

£675 median full-time weekly pay

5.3% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£20,182 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

43% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 134,384 certificates

12.4% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

76% low-carbon electricity

Nuclear 42% · Wind 34% · Gas 14% · Imports 10%

57 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for North West England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 81.9 yrs women · 78.5 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 55.3 women · 54.6 men

68% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.5
• Feeling worthwhile7.9
• Happiness yesterday7.6
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.4

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

30 GP surgeries · 16 pharmacies in BL1

• Dalefield Surgery
• Octagon Medical Centre
• Spring House Surgery

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Bolton North East:

• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth245 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Remove the grey belt planning rules207 local signatures · 12,329 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases176 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Launch a public inquiry into illegal migration in the UK154 local signatures · 78,478 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND150 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

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  Bolton Union Mill, Bolton · 0.4 km

  Bolton Union Mill was a cotton spinning mill in Halliwell, Bolton, Greater Manchester. It was built in 1875 and 1880. It was taken over by the Lancashire Cotton Corporation in the 1930s and brought back into productio…

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  Halliwell, Greater Manchester · 0.6 km

  Halliwell is predominantly a residential area of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. It gives its name to an electoral ward of the wider Metropolitan Borough of Bolton. The population of this ward taken at the 2011 c…

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  Bolton Royal Infirmary · 0.6 km

  The Bolton Royal Infirmary was an acute general hospital in Chorley Street, Bolton, Greater Manchester, England.

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  St Thomas' Church, Halliwell · 0.7 km

  St Thomas' Church is an active Anglican parish church on Eskrick Street in Halliwell, a residential area of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. It belongs to the deanery of Bolton, the archdeaconry of Bolton, and the…

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  Little Bolton · 0.8 km

  Little Bolton was a township of the civil and ecclesiastical parish of Bolton le Moors in the Salford hundred of Lancashire, England, and later a separate civil parish. Besides the main part of Little Bolton, it had t…

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  Queen's Park, Bolton · 0.8 km

  Queen's Park is a roughly circular 22 acres (8.9 ha) Victorian park lying on sloping ground to the north-west of Bolton town centre, in Greater Manchester, England. Opened as Bolton Park on 24 May 1866 by Lord Bradfor…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)