Church

17°CCloudy

• Today: 21° / 14° · 37% rain
• Tomorrow: 17° / 11° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:39Sunset 19:30

12h 51m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

10US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: coarse particles (PM10)

Source: WAQI · Salford M60, United Kingdom

410 reported · July 2026▼ 5% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences151
• Anti-social behaviour72
• Shoplifting45
• Criminal damage & arson32

Neighbourhood team: Church · Lancashire

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

151 reported road collisions (2024)

50 killed or seriously injured · 203 casualties · 18.4 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

• 411 rated 4–5 ★ (263 top)
• 19 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

• Nearest station: Church and Oswaldtwistle (0.1 km)
• 48 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£138,818 average▲ 10.7% YoY

Across Hyndburn · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£645 average monthly rent▲ 3.8% YoY

• 1 bed £483
• 2 bed £619
• 3 bed £724

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

4.1× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 4.1 times median annual pay (3.5× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 165.9p · Asda (1.3 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 188.7p · Asda (10.8 km)

10 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

46 charging locations within ~8 km

• 17 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 350 kW
• Nearest: Oswaldtwistle Mills Home and LifestyleMoscow Mills (0.5 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Sports pitches32
• Golf courses2
• Playgrounds15

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

82,234 residents in Hyndburn · 1,127/km²

• Under 16: 20%
• 16–64: 62%
• 65+: 18%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Among the most deprived areas in England

Ranked 18 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

27% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,466 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (58% of 37,950)

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

47 schools · 12,562 pupils

34 primary · 6 secondary · 7 other

Ofsted: 14 of 17 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (82%)

44inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Hyndburn

1,255 CQC-registered services

• Care homes423
• GP practices184
• Dentists250
• Homecare agencies290
• Hospitals & hospices38

CQC ratings: 91% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 7 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Lancashire

• In a conservation area (Church Canalside)
• Not in the Green Belt
• 23 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

76 applications decided

81.6% granted · 62 granted, 14 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Sarah Smith

Labour

Hyndburn

Source: UK Parliament

Labour (minority)

• Lab 17
• Con 8
• Grn 1
• Ref 8
• Oth 1

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

• Schools17
• GPs & clinics3
• Pharmacies2
• Supermarkets5
• Parks & greens22
• Restaurants & cafés18

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

2,830 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

64 jobs advertised · £32,105 avg

e.g. Become a Arabic Tutor in Church – Flexible & Remote, Cook - KFC Accrington - Hyndburn Road, Quality Administrator

Source: Adzuna

£678 median full-time weekly pay

5.5% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£17,638 disposable income per head (2024)

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

29% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 42,226 certificates

15.2% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

78% low-carbon electricity

Nuclear 40% · Wind 32% · Imports 12% · Gas 10%

45 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for North West England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 80.6 yrs women · 78 yrs men

69% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction6.9
• Feeling worthwhile7.4
• Happiness yesterday7.3
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)4.0

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Hyndburn:

• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office402 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership309 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s305 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Expand statutory SEN allowance entitlement to Teaching Assistants in SEN schools246 local signatures · 17,598 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases224 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide

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

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  Church & Oswaldtwistle railway station · 0.2 km

  Church & Oswaldtwistle railway station serves both the village of Church and the town of Oswaldtwistle, in Lancashire, England. The station is 5+1⁄3 miles (8.6 km) east of Blackburn railway station, on the East Lancas…

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  Church, Lancashire · 0.5 km

  Church is a large village in Hyndburn, Lancashire, England, situated one mile (1.6 km) west of Accrington. The village had a population of 5,186 at the 2011 census, an increase from 3,990 according to the 2001 census.

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  St James' Church, Church Kirk · 0.7 km

  St James' Church is an redundant church in St James' Road, Church, Hyndburn, Lancashire, England. It was an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Accrington, the archdeaconry of Blackburn, and the diocese of…

• Rhyddings · 0.7 km

  Rhyddings is a mixed secondary school in Oswaldtwistle in the English county of Lancashire.

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  Oswaldtwistle Town Hall · 0.7 km

  Oswaldtwistle Town Hall is a municipal building in Union Road, Oswaldtwistle, a town in Lancashire, England. The building accommodated the Oswaldtwistle Civic Arts Centre until it closed in 2023.

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  Aspden · 0.8 km

  Aspden is the historic name of a valley a mile west of Church and a mile north of Oswaldtwistle, between Accrington and Blackburn, in Lancashire, England. The modern name of this location is Aspen.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)