Neighbourhoods in Burnley
Tap any row or map polygon to drill into that neighbourhood — hovering on desktop will preview the link before you click. Switch the tab strip above the table to focus on Affordability, Schools, Transport, Safety or Wealth — the columns swap and the default sort follows.
12 neighbourhoods · 60 sub-areas
Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.
| Central Burnley & Daneshouse | £474 | +4.9% | 98 | 43 |
| Bank Hall & Fulledge | £520 | +4.9% | 85 | 10 |
| Queensgate | £551 | +4.9% | 91 | 29 |
| Padiham | £564 | +4.9% | 85 | 17 |
| Barclay Hills & Trinity | £567 | +4.9% | 85 | 2 |
| Whittlefield & Rose Grove | £617 | +4.9% | 85 | 19 |
| Brunshaw & Brownside | £681 | +4.9% | 84 | 18 |
| Rose Hill & Burnley Wood | £694 | +4.9% | 85 | 34 |
| Harle Syke & Lanehead | £710 | +4.9% | 98 | 68 |
| Hapton & Lowerhouse | £724 | +4.9% | 88 | 37 |
| Habergham & Ightenhill | £745 | +4.9% | 98 | 78 |
| Cliviger, Worsthorne & Lane Bottom | £786 | +4.9% | 78 | 75 |
Sources: ONS, MHCLG, DfT, DESNZ, Defra, Police.uk, Ofsted, Ofcom, HM Land Registry. Some columns (salary, council tax, HPI) are published at council-area level.
Where to look in Burnley
Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in Burnley. Each list is filtered from the same neighbourhood data above — the basis of each shortlist is stated above the list so you know what's been weighted.
Lowest estimated monthly rent. Rent is the LAD-published ONS PIPR median, scaled per neighbourhood by local sale prices (Land Registry).
Highest composite liveability — combines safety, schools, transport access and rental affordability into one 0–100 score (higher = more liveable).
Highest liveability per pound of rent — desirable areas where rent stays close to or below the Burnley median.
Cost of living
Median rent and council tax across Burnley.
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.
Safety in Burnley
Crime in Burnley runs at in line with the national average. Bottom 10% (#290 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 100.7, averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods.
How crime is measured
What's counted. Incidents recorded by territorial police forces and published to data.police.uk each month. Rates use the latest 12 months of data divided by the area's mid-2024 ONS resident population — so the figure is reported incidents per 1,000 residents per year.
Anti-social behaviour is the largest category in most areas and is worth reading carefully — it's a community-reports bucket (noise, rowdiness, nuisance), not "crime" in the legal sense. ASB and shoplifting are weighted lower than violent offences in the safety score on each page.
Caveats. The denominator is residents, so workday and tourist destinations can look worse than they feel for someone living there. Greater Manchester forces stopped publishing to data.police.uk in 2020, so figures for those areas are intentionally blank rather than misleadingly low.
Crime detailTop crime types · safest neighbourhoods in this council area
Source: data.police.uk — incident counts adjusted for population, then averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods. National average = England + Wales population-weighted mean.
Schools in Burnley
100% of schools serving Burnley are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. Best 5% nationally (#1 of 296 cities)
School breakdownOfsted distribution · best neighbourhoods for schools
Ofsted school inspection ratings, latest inspection per school.
Transport in Burnley
Modelled door-to-door commute from this council area to nearby employment hubs. Closest first.
Transport detailAll city commute times · mode share · best-connected neighbourhoods
DfT Journey Time Statistics + ONS Travel-to-Work.
Job access from Burnley
Burnley has 0.40 jobs per resident locally. Below median
Job access detailReachability tiers · sector mix in this council area
ONS BRES (jobs density) + DfT job-accessibility minutes.
Frequently asked about Burnley
Short answers to the questions we get most often. Each answer is anchored in the data above and links onward where you can dig deeper.
- What is the average rent in Burnley?
- The median monthly rent across Burnley is £624, based on ONS Private Rental Prices data. Individual neighbourhoods vary — see the shortlist above for the cheapest and most desirable areas.
- Where is the cheapest place to rent in Burnley?
- The cheapest neighbourhood in Burnley by estimated median rent is Central Burnley & Daneshouse at approximately £474/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
- What's the best neighbourhood to live in Burnley?
- By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in Burnley is Central Burnley & Daneshouse at 98/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
- Is Burnley a safe area?
- Burnley has an average safety score of 38/100 across its constituent neighbourhoods (higher is safer). The score is the national percentile rank of police-recorded crimes per 1,000 residents per year, inverted so 100 means the safest 1% of England + Wales.
- What is council tax in Burnley?
- The most common council tax band in Burnley is not yet published, with the Band D annual charge currently around £361. Council tax is set at the local authority level so the same banding applies to every postcode within Burnley.
- What is the average salary in Burnley?
- The median annual resident salary in Burnley is £29,680, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in Burnley, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
- What is the average house price in Burnley?
- The average property price in Burnley is approximately £128,687 according to HM Land Registry's House Price Index. Individual neighbourhoods vary — typically ±20% around this council area median.
- What's the rental yield in Burnley?
- Gross rental yield in Burnley is approximately 5.0% — the council-area level median rent annualised over the council-area level median sale price. Net yield (after agency, void, maintenance and tax) typically runs 30–40% lower.
- How long does it take to save a deposit in Burnley?
- Saving a 10% deposit at the council area median sale price on the council area median salary, while putting away 10% of takehome pay each month, takes approximately 2.4 years in Burnley. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
- Is gigabit broadband available in Burnley?
- 100% of premises in Burnley are gigabit-capable per Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Coverage is patchier in older terraces and rural fringes — check your specific postcode for service availability.
- What's the unemployment rate in Burnley?
- 5.8% of 16-64 residents in Burnley are on the DWP Claimant Count — Universal Credit while seeking work, or Jobseeker's Allowance. That's the live monthly local indicator. It's narrower than the ONS Labour Force Survey "ILO unemployment rate" (which counts anyone actively job-seeking on a separate denominator) and narrower again than Census 2021's "% unemployed" (which is calculated against all 16+ residents and so isn't directly comparable).
- How many neighbourhoods are in Burnley?
- Burnley contains 12 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 60 sub-areas (local areas). Browse the full list at the bottom of this page or use the neighbourhood map above to drill into a specific area.
What you need on day one
All sub-areas in Burnley
Every local area, ordered by crawl priority. Most readers want the neighbourhood-level view — these are for deep-link cases or external search-engine arrivals.
- Burnley 003A
- Burnley 003F
- Burnley 006C
- Burnley 010E
- Burnley 014B
- Burnley 003D
- Burnley 002D
- Burnley 003B
- Burnley 003C
- Burnley 007D
- Burnley 002A
- Burnley 007C
- Burnley 006A
- Burnley 010F
- Burnley 004D
- Burnley 011D
- Burnley 003E
- Burnley 004F
- Burnley 014A
- Burnley 014C
- Burnley 007A
- Burnley 006B
- Burnley 006D
- Burnley 010D
- Burnley 001A
- Burnley 011C
- Burnley 005A
- Burnley 004C
- Burnley 001D
- Burnley 010C
- Burnley 010A
- Burnley 007B
- Burnley 010B
- Burnley 001E
- Burnley 004E
- Burnley 008C
- Burnley 001F
- Burnley 002C
- Burnley 001C
- Burnley 011B
- Burnley 002B
- Burnley 004A
- Burnley 005D
- Burnley 008A
- Burnley 008B
- Burnley 005B
- Burnley 009B
- Burnley 004B
- Burnley 014G
- Burnley 014E
- Burnley 014F
- Burnley 014D
- Burnley 008D
- Burnley 009D
- Burnley 009A
- Burnley 009C
- Burnley 001B
- Burnley 005E
- Burnley 005C
- Burnley 011A