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Higham (Pendle)

Higham (Pendle) is a village in Lancashire, England, with a population of around 1,000. It has around 1 restaurant or café, 6 bus stops, and the nearest railway station is Rose Grove, 4 km away. There were around 7 recorded street crimes in June 2026, most commonly violence & sexual offences. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Higham (Pendle) area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Burnley area is among the most deprived areas in England (IoD2019). The wider council area has around 94,646 residents at roughly 855 people per km².

Council
Burnley
County
Lancashire
Constituency
Burnley
Police force
Lancashire
28/ 100

My Area Score

Challenged

Ranked 281st of 294 English council areas — better than 4% of them.

Low crime18
Home affordability99
Affordable rents94
Good schools3
Life expectancy8
Low deprivation3
Employment10
Low council tax21

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° / 11° · 27% rain
  • Tomorrow: 20° / 12° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:37Sunset 19:32

12h 55m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

10US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: coarse particles (PM10)

Source: WAQI · Bury Radcliffe, United Kingdom

Crime

2 reported · July 2026

  • Drugs1
  • Violence & sexual offences1

Neighbourhood team: Whittlefield & Ightenhill · Lancashire

Local policing priorities

  • Anti- social Behaviour - Burnley Town Centre , Shoplifting - Burnley wide.

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

Road safety

176 reported road collisions (2024)

58 killed or seriously injured · 254 casualties · 18.6 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

105 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 86 rated 4–5 ★ (66 top)
  • 4 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Rose Grove (4.0 km)
  • 6 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Rose Grove (4.0 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£134,515 average 9.9% YoY

Across Burnley · to 2026-06

Detached£248,277
Semi-detached£158,911
Terraced£114,292
Flat£81,010

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£628 average monthly rent 2.9% YoY

  • 1 bed £463
  • 2 bed £585
  • 3 bed £692

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

Affordability

4.2× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 4.2 times median annual pay (3.5× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 161.9p · Morrisons (6 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 183.9p · Morrisons (6 km)

12 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

29 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 11 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 175 kW
  • Nearest: Tesco Superstore - Padiham (2.3 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres1
  • Playgrounds1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

94,646 residents in Burnley · 855/km²

  • Under 16: 21%
  • 16–64: 62%
  • 65+: 18%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Deprivation

Among the most deprived areas in England

Ranked 11 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

38% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

Council tax

£2,549 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (60% of 43,050)

A £1,700
B £1,983
C £2,266
D £2,549
E £3,116
F £3,683
G £4,249
H £5,099

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

Schools

59 schools · 15,630 pupils

30 primary · 5 secondary · 24 other

Ofsted: 15 of 21 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (71%)

49inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Secondary schools:

  • Sir John Thursby Community CollegeGood
  • Blessed Trinity Roman Catholic College, A Voluntary AcademyRequires improvement
  • Unity CollegeRequires improvement
  • Burnley High School
  • Shuttleworth College

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Burnley

Care & health services

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

Heritage & planning

  • Within the Green Belt
  • 21 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

Planning decisions

64 applications decided

84.4% granted · 54 granted, 10 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Your MP

Oliver Ryan

Labour (Co-op)

Burnley

Recent votes:

  • NoTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading
  • NoClosure 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

Independent / Liberal Democrat / Green coalition

  • Lab 10
  • Con 3
  • LD 6
  • Grn 3
  • Ref 12
  • Oth 11

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools1
  • Parks & greens1
  • Restaurants & cafés1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

3,210 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

Local economy

£670 median full-time weekly pay

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

£17,928 disposable income per head (2024)

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

Energy efficiency

31% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 54,300 certificates

16.2% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Grid electricity

72% low-carbon electricity

Nuclear 52% · Imports 15% · Gas 13% · Solar 13%

58 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for North West England · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 80.4 yrs women · 77.2 yrs men

72% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.2
  • Feeling worthwhile7.0
  • Happiness yesterday7.2
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.5

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2021-22

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Burnley:

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

Notable places nearby

  • Higham, Lancashire · 0.6 km

    Higham is a village in the Borough of Pendle in Lancashire, England, south of Pendle Hill. The civil parish is named Higham with West Close Booth. The village is 2 miles (3 km) north-east of Padiham and about 4 miles…

  • Huntroyde Hall · 1.8 km

    Huntroyde Hall is a grade II listed, 16th-century house in the civil parish of Simonstone in the Borough of Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England. Its estate, Huntroyde Demesne, once extended to over 6,500 acres.

  • Burnley F.C. Academy · 2.0 km

    Burnley F.C. Academy are the youth teams of Burnley Football Club. The under-21s currently play in the first level of reserve football in England, the U21 Professional Development League. The team mainly consists of p…

  • Gawthorpe (ward) · 2.0 km

    Gawthorpe is an electoral ward in the non-metropolitan district of Burnley in Lancashire, England. The population of the Burnley Ward at the 2011 census was 6,148. The ward covers the majority of the town of Padiham,…

  • Gawthorpe Hall · 2.1 km

    Gawthorpe Hall is an Elizabethan country house on the banks of the River Calder, in Ightenhill, a civil parish in the Borough of Burnley, Lancashire, England. Its estate extends into Padiham, with the Stockbridge Driv…

  • Great Barn, Ightenhill · 2.1 km

    Great Barn is an historic building in the English civil parish of Ightenhill, Lancashire. Built around 1605 about 100 metres (330 ft) west of Gawthorpe Hall, it is now a Grade I listed building.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Higham (Pendle)?
Higham (Pendle) is a town in Lancashire, England, in the Burnley local authority.
How deprived is Higham (Pendle)?
The Burnley local authority, which includes Higham (Pendle), is among the most deprived areas in England on the IoD2019.