Living in Littleborough
Littleborough is a town in Rochdale, North West, England. This guide describes it as one place — who lives there, what sits inside its boundary and how safe it is — from official UK data. For any single street, the NestScope area report covers every Littleborough postcode.
Littleborough is a town of 12,164 people at 2,082 per km², where 63% of residents live in neighbourhoods in England's better-off half. 4 of its 4 inspected schools are rated Good or Outstanding.
Which part of Littleborough?
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© OpenStreetMap · © CARTOWhat's in Littleborough: schools, GPs, stations, parks and shops
Counted inside the town boundary. A school or station two streets past it belongs to the next place.
Best-rated schools in Littleborough
Ranked by Ofsted grade. All 6 schools → Schools in Littleborough
Littleborough crime rate
This police force does not publish street-level crime to the national feed, so a count for the town cannot be shown.
- Is Littleborough a good place to live?
- Littleborough has 12,164 residents, 63% of them in neighbourhoods in England's better-off half, 100% of its inspected schools are rated Good or Outstanding. Whether it is a good place to live depends on the street: the NestScope area report scores any Littleborough postcode.
- How many people live in Littleborough?
- 12,164 people live in Littleborough (Census 2021, ONS built-up area), across 5.8 km² — about 2,082 per km².
- What are the schools like in Littleborough?
- There are 6 schools inside Littleborough; 100% of those inspected are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. The top-rated include Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School, Smithy Bridge Foundation Primary School and St Andrew's Church of England Primary School and Nursery.
- Where is Littleborough?
- Littleborough is a town in Rochdale, North West, England, served by Littleborough and Smithy Bridge railway stations.
This page is NestScope's guide to Littleborough as a whole town, built from the same official sources as the area reports: the ONS boundary of the built-up area, Census 2021, the English Indices of Deprivation, police.uk recorded crime and the Department for Education's school register. Counts are of what sits inside the boundary; crime is a three-month average. It is updated as those sources publish.
Sources — ONS built-up areas 2022, Output Area lookups and Census 2021 (OGL v3.0) · English Indices of Deprivation 2019, carried onto 2021 LSOAs · police.uk street-level crime, the town boundary passed as the query polygon · DfE GIAS + Ofsted, NHS ODS, NaPTAN, OS Open Greenspace, Geolytix, Arts Council — every point counted by which 2021 neighbourhood it falls in.