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Chapeltown

Chapeltown is a town or village in Lancashire, England. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Chapeltown area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Blackburn with Darwen area is among the most deprived areas in England (IoD2019). The wider council area has around 154,735 residents at roughly 1,129 people per km².

Council
Blackburn with Darwen
County
Lancashire
Constituency
Rossendale and Darwen
Police force
Lancashire
44/ 100

My Area Score

Mixed

Ranked 187th of 294 English council areas — better than 36% of them.

Low crime35
Home affordability96
Affordable rents96
Good schools75
Life expectancy7
Low deprivation4
Employment10
Low council tax45

A percentile blend of eight open measures (100 = best in England); bars show this area’s England-wide percentile on each. See the rankings · methodology

Weather

17°CPatchy rain nearby

  • Today: 17° / 10° · 91% rain
  • Tomorrow: 18° / 13° · Mist

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:36Sunset 19:35

12h 59m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

15US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: coarse particles (PM10)

Source: WAQI · Salford M60, United Kingdom

Crime

2 reported · July 2026 60% YoY

  • Anti-social behaviour1
  • Violence & sexual offences1

Neighbourhood team: West Pennine · Lancashire

Local policing priorities

  • Anti-social Behaviour including the use of vapes additional substances, Road safety (E Bikes) Business crime.

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

Road safety

285 reported road collisions (2024)

94 killed or seriously injured · 401 casualties · 18.4 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

84 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 73 rated 4–5 ★ (57 top)
  • 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Entwistle (2.1 km)
  • 18 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Entwistle (2.1 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£165,882 average 5.8% YoY

Across Blackburn with Darwen · to 2026-06

Detached£298,455
Semi-detached£183,287
Terraced£137,837
Flat£90,234

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£713 average monthly rent 4.9% YoY

  • 1 bed £534
  • 2 bed £661
  • 3 bed £781

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

Affordability

4.7× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 4.7 times median annual pay (4.5× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 154.9p · Esso (9.7 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 182.7p · Asda (10.4 km)

28 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

20 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 6 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 150 kW
  • Nearest: The Red Lion (2.3 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports pitches10
  • Golf courses1
  • Playgrounds2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

154,735 residents in Blackburn with Darwen · 1,129/km²

  • Under 16: 23%
  • 16–64: 63%
  • 65+: 14%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Deprivation

Among the most deprived areas in England

Ranked 14 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

36% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

Council tax

£2,455 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (56% of 64,050)

A £1,637
B £1,910
C £2,182
D £2,455
E £3,001
F £3,547
G £4,092
H £4,911

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

Schools

90 schools · 29,988 pupils

57 primary · 12 secondary · 21 other

Ofsted: 26 of 28 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (93%)

78inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Secondary schools:

  • Pleckgate High SchoolOutstanding
  • Tauheedul Islam Boys' High SchoolOutstanding
  • Tauheedul Islam Girls' High SchoolOutstanding
  • Darwen Vale High SchoolGood
  • Queen Elizabeth's Grammar SchoolGood
  • Our Lady and St John RC High School, a Voluntary AcademyRequires improvement
  • Blackburn Central High School
  • Darwen Aldridge Community Academy
  • Darwen Aldridge Enterprise Studio
  • St Bede's Roman Catholic High School, Blackburn
  • St Wilfrid's Church of England Academy
  • Witton Park Academy

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Blackburn with Darwen

Care & health services

151 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes35
  • GP practices30
  • Dentists31
  • Homecare agencies39
  • Hospitals & hospices7

CQC ratings: 91% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 2 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Blackburn with Darwen

Heritage & planning

  • In a conservation area (Chapeltown)
  • Not in the Green Belt
  • 38 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

Planning decisions

122 applications decided

98.4% granted · 120 granted, 2 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Your MP

Andy MacNae

Labour

Rossendale and Darwen

Recent votes:

  • AyeTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading
  • AyeClosure motion
  • NoSocial Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading
  • AyeDraft Plant Health, Seeds, Seed Potatoes and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2026

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Labour (minority)

  • Lab 20
  • Con 5
  • Ref 9
  • Oth 17

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools1
  • GPs & clinics1
  • Pharmacies1
  • Restaurants & cafés3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

6,375 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

Jobs

81 jobs advertised · £28,426 avg

e.g. Quantity Surveyor, Online Biology Tutoring Job in Chapeltown (Sheffield) – Flexible Schedule, Become a Portuguese Tutor in Chapeltown (Sheffield) – Flexible & Remote

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£650 median full-time weekly pay

5.6% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£17,707 disposable income per head (2024)

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

Energy efficiency

39% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 76,015 certificates

14.6% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Grid electricity

95% low-carbon electricity

Wind 60% · Nuclear 31% · Imports 3% · Solar 3%

9 gCO₂/kWh · very low intensity

Latest estimate for North West England · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 81 yrs women · 76.4 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 54.4 women · 54 men

67% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.2
  • Feeling worthwhile7.8
  • Happiness yesterday7.4
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.1

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

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Rossendale and Darwen:

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

Notable places nearby

  • Chapeltown, Lancashire · 0.1 km

    Chapeltown is a village of the civil parish of North Turton, in the Blackburn with Darwen unitary authority, in the north west of England. It is on the B6391 road, on the southern slopes of the West Pennine Moors. The…

  • St Anne's Church, Turton · 0.1 km

    St Anne's Church is a Grade II listed building in Chapeltown, Turton, in the Borough of Blackburn with Darwen, Lancashire, England. It is an active Church of England parish church in the Diocese of Manchester and is p…

  • Turton and Edgworth railway station · 0.3 km

    Turton and Edgworth railway station, located at 4 miles, 856 yards from Bolton, on the Bolton to Blackburn line, opened as Chapel Town Station. The short length original low height platform seen in early photographs a…

  • North Turton · 0.4 km

    North Turton is a civil parish of the unitary authority area of Blackburn with Darwen in Lancashire, England. According to the United Kingdom Census 2001 the civil parish has a population of 3,736, increasing to 3,867…

  • Turton Tower · 0.5 km

    Turton Tower is a manor house in Chapeltown in North Turton, Borough of Blackburn with Darwen, Lancashire, England. It is a scheduled ancient monument and a Grade I listed building.

  • Turton, Lancashire · 0.6 km

    Turton is a historical area in the North West of England. It is part of the ceremonial counties of Lancashire and Greater Manchester. The Turton area is located north of Bolton and south of Blackburn. The area histori…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

Frequently asked questions

Where is Chapeltown?
Chapeltown is a town in Lancashire, England, in the Blackburn with Darwen local authority.
How deprived is Chapeltown?
The Blackburn with Darwen local authority, which includes Chapeltown, is among the most deprived areas in England on the IoD2019.