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Area guide · Lancashire

Living in Whitworth with children

Whitworth, Lancashire. What the published figures say about its schools, its homes and daily life, each with its source and date. 6,713 people in 3,014 households; 26.7% of households have dependent children (Census 2021 (ONS, via NOMIS), summed over the town's output areas).

1schools in Whitworth
£194ktypical semi, 12 months
90crimes a year per 1,000 people
87%gigabit broadband

Schools

1 schools: 1 state primary, 0 state secondaryWhitworth on the schools map →
Primary: expected standard, 2025 results (DfE) · red mark: Lancashire 60%ResultOfsted
1Tonacliffe Primary SchoolPrimary · (255/461) · 61%Good
Every school in Whitworth, with inspection, league band and the last place offered

State primary schools (1)

SchoolInspectionLeague rankLast place offered
Tonacliffe Primary SchoolGood(255/461) in Lancashire—
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Rank: the school's place among its council's schools of the same phase, from three years of DfE results (kinplace's league table, how it is worked out); schools with hidden or no results get none. Inspections: Ofsted and ISI. Last place offered: the council's offer-day figures. School register: DfE Get Information about Schools, updated 17 October 2026.

Homes and prices

Typical sale, last 12 months (Land Registry)
Detached£285,000
Semi-detached£194,000
Terraced£168,000
Flat or maisonettetoo few sales

The middle sale of each type, September 2025 to August 2026: half sold for more, half for less (15 detached, 28 semi-detached, 43 terraced, 2 flat or maisonette sales). Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, standard sales inside the ONS built-up area outline of Whitworth. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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Getting around

Stops and stations (NaPTAN), and broadband (Ofcom)
0railway stations within 2 km
17bus stops within 1 km of the town centre

Source: DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes). Straight-line distances.

Gigabit broadband can be ordered at 87% of premises, and superfast (30 Mbit/s) at 99%, on average across the 1,125 postcodes in OL12. Check the postcode you are looking at: it can differ street by street.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, July 2025, fixed broadband coverage by postcode (an average of postcodes, not of homes).

Safety and environment

The town centre; addresses vary
90.0 a year per 1,000 peopleCrimeInside the town's outline, September 2025 to August 2026. The most common: violent crime, anti social behaviour, criminal damage arson. Source: data.police.uk, street-level crime inside the ONS built-up area outline; people from Census 2021. A town centre with shops and pubs records more crime per resident than a suburb.
Flood zone 1FloodAt the town centre, the area is in flood zone 1 for rivers and the sea on the Environment Agency's Flood Map for Planning (not in zone 2 or 3, the lowest of the three). Surface-water risk: we don't hold that map, so it is unknown here. One point says little about a whole town, and the zones describe the area, not a building: check the address on the Environment Agency's long-term flood risk service.Source: Environment Agency, Flood Map for Planning (Rivers and Sea), read from its open download. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. Open Government Licence v3.0.
NO₂ 7.7AirAt the town centre, an annual mean on DEFRA's 1 km map: nitrogen dioxide 7.7 µg/m³ (2024); PM2.5 6.2 µg/m³ (2024); PM10 9.4 µg/m³ (2024). A background figure, not the air beside a busy road. Source: DEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps.

Childcare

Ofsted early years register; published prices

We don't hold registered nurseries for Whitworth.

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Key dates, Lancashire

The next dates for families applying
Secondary applications close31 Oct 2026
Primary applications close15 Jan 2027
Secondary offer day1 Mar 2027

Application deadlines and offer days: Lancashire.

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Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Sources are named beside each figure. How we know · All sources.