Padiham

16°CLight rain shower

• Today: 16° / 9° · 89% rain
• Tomorrow: 17° / 12° · Fog

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:35Sunset 19:35

12h 59m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

15US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: coarse particles (PM10)

Source: WAQI · Salford M60, United Kingdom

150 reported · July 2026▼ 6% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences67
• Anti-social behaviour27
• Criminal damage & arson11
• Other theft11

Neighbourhood team: Gawthorpe · Lancashire

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

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)

164 food businesses within 2 miles

• 139 rated 4–5 ★ (99 top)
• 6 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Hapton (2.3 km)
• 40 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£134,515 average▲ 9.9% YoY

Across Burnley · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£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

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

• Cheapest petrol: 162.9p · Asda (6.6 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 184.9p · Asda (6.6 km)

13 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

36 charging locations within ~8 km

• 14 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 175 kW
• Nearest: Ribble Street Parking/Charging (0.3 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres3
• Sports pitches18
• Playgrounds8

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

94,646 residents in Burnley · 855/km²

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

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

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

£2,549 a year · Band D, 2026-27

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

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

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)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Burnley

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 (Padiham)
• Not in the Green Belt
• 50 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

64 applications decided

84.4% granted · 54 granted, 10 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Oliver Ryan

Labour (Co-op)

Burnley

Source: UK Parliament

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)

• Schools8
• GPs & clinics1
• Supermarkets2
• Parks & greens8
• Restaurants & cafés8

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

3,210 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

170 jobs advertised · £42,606 avg

e.g. Market Research Field Interviewer Car Required Part-time, Field Sales Representative, Preston, Cook

Source: Adzuna

£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

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

97% low-carbon electricity

Wind 62% · Nuclear 31% · Solar 3% · Imports 2%

6 gCO₂/kWh · very low intensity

Latest estimate for North West England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 80.4 yrs women · 77.2 yrs men

72% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• 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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Burnley:

• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office481 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s366 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership303 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases287 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide
• Expand statutory SEN allowance entitlement to Teaching Assistants in SEN schools264 local signatures · 17,598 nationwide

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

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  Padiham Town Hall · 0.2 km

  Padiham Town Hall is a municipal building in Burnley Road, Padiham, Lancashire, England. The town hall, which was the headquarters of Padiham Urban District Council, is a grade II listed building. It is the meeting pl…

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  Gawthorpe (ward) · 0.4 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,…

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  Padiham railway station · 0.4 km

  Padiham railway station in Station Road, Padiham, Lancashire, England was on a branch line of the East Lancashire Line from Burnley to Blackburn.

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  Padiham F.C. · 0.4 km

  Padiham Football Club are an English football team based in Padiham, Lancashire. As of the 2026–27 season, they will play in the Northern Premier League Division One West.

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  Padiham · 0.6 km

  Padiham is a market town and civil parish on the River Calder, in the Borough of Burnley in Lancashire, England. It is located north west of Burnley, and north east of the towns of Clayton le Moors and Great Harwood.…

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  Padiham Power Station · 1.1 km

  Padiham Power Station was a coal-fired power station in Padiham, east Lancashire, England, which began operation in 1926 and generated power from 1927 until it was closed in 1993.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)