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Pendle Borough Council
Local authority area: Pendle
Pendle is a district council in Lancashire, in the North West England region of England. It covers 169.4 km² and had 96,110 residents in 2022 — about 567 people per km². The authority dates from 1974. The council is based in Nelson.
Town hall in the administrative centreNelson Town Hall
Photo: RailwayJG · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
People
Population
Estimates recorded for Pendle, 2012–2022.
Residents, 202296,110+7.3% since 2012
Land area169.4km²65.4 sq mi
Density567/ km²people per square kilometre
Rank by population#319of 382 UK councils · #272 in England
Population estimates4 data points
89.6K90.1K91.4K96.1K
2012201520182022
History
How the council came to be
- 1974Created
Pendle became a local authority area.
Elections
12 electoral wards
Census 2021: 95,757 residents in 38,068 households across the wards; 18.0% aged 65+, 65.0% of homes owned, 23.3% of households without a car.
1Whitefield & Walverden3,426 households · 9.9% aged 65+11,3002Marsden & Southfield3,621 households · 13.3% aged 65+9,7233Bradley3,248 households · 11.8% aged 65+9,4664Earby & Coates4,045 households · 22.3% aged 65+9,0955Brierfield East & Clover Hill3,098 households · 19.1% aged 65+8,6046Barnoldswick3,642 households · 21.0% aged 65+8,266
Westminster
Constituencies
Source: Wikidata Q1693090 (CC0)Figures as recorded with their reference year; boundaries may have changed since.