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North West

Blackburn

1st decile deprivation (IMD 2025) MEDIUM funding gap
60
Blocked

What the data shows

1 GP for every 3,166 patients. The NHS England average is around 2,200.
NHS Digital General Practice Workforce (Feb 2026) and Patients Registered at a GP Practice (Mar 2026)
Income deprivation: bottom 1.7%. Number of income-focused charities: 103.
English Indices of Deprivation / Charity Commission
Blocked score: 60/100. High need, low resources.
Blocked Britain composite index

Your councillors

No councillor records have been loaded for Blackburn yet. Full data arrives after the May 2026 elections.

Index of Multiple Deprivation by domain

Rank out of 543 English constituencies. Lower rank = more deprived.

crime
116/543
health
46/543
Bottom 10%
income
11/543
Bottom 10%
housing
166/543
education
14/543
Bottom 10%
employment
37/543
Bottom 10%
environment
105/543
Bottom 20%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG), published October 2025. See methodology.

Identified resource gaps

income HIGH
Rank 11/543 for income deprivation (IMD 2025)
103 income-focused charities, 656 employees
employment HIGH
Rank 37/543 for employment deprivation (IMD 2025)
61 employment-focused charities, 1212 employees
health HIGH
Rank 46/543 for health deprivation (IMD 2025)
165 health-focused charities, 1281 employees
GP ratio: 1:3166 (above 1:2000 threshold)
education HIGH
Rank 14/543 for education deprivation (IMD 2025)
198 education-focused charities, 1803 employees
crime MODERATE
Rank 116/543 for crime deprivation (IMD 2025)
No crime-focused charities in constituency
environment MODERATE
Rank 105/543 for environment deprivation (IMD 2025)
76 environment-focused charities, 601 employees
housing LOW
Rank 166/543 for housing deprivation (IMD 2025)
39 housing-focused charities, 702 employees

Gap severity is computed from IMD 2025 domain ranks and Charity Commission data. See methodology.

373 registered charities

373
Charities
£5,054,554
Grants to HQ'd charities
2,290
Employees
6,522
Volunteers
24.4%
Govt funded
MEDIUM
Funding gap

Grant funding is above the national median. Grant totals reflect money received by charities whose registered office is in this constituency. National charities headquartered here will inflate the total even if most of their work happens elsewhere; charities that serve this constituency but are registered elsewhere will not appear. Source: 360Giving GrantNav and the Charity Commission Register. See methodology for definitions and known limitations.

Largest charities by income

THE JAMES CROSS FUND
CRAWSHAWBOOTH MEETING HOUSE AND BURIAL GROUND
DERWENT HALL, GEORGE STREET, DARWEN
THE ELMSLIE FUND

10 staff
QUEEN ELIZABETH'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL

29 staff
COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS FOR LANCASHIRE AND MERSEYSIDE TRUST

14 staff
JUBILEE COTTAGE TRUST

336 staff
THE QUEEN'S LANCASHIRE REGIMENT COTTAGE HOMES CHARITY
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR LANCASHIRE TRUST
HARWOOD HOPE FOUNDATION LTD

GP and primary care

18
GP practices
48
FQ FTE GPs
1:3,166
Patients per FQ FTE GP

The NHS England average is approximately 2,200 patients per fully-qualified full-time equivalent GP (NHS Digital General Practice Workforce, February 2026; trainees, grant-paid and locum GPs excluded from the denominator). This constituency is 966 patients above that. See methodology.

People working in Blackburn, by sector

Sector Employees
NHS / Healthcare 12,000
Education 5,000
Social Care 3,050
Construction 2,700
Transport 1,500
Environment / Green 120

Employee jobs in each sector within this constituency. Workforce exists; the question is whether central government chooses to fund the posts. Source: NOMIS Business Register and Employment Survey (2024). Figures are rounded by ONS for disclosure control. See methodology.

Data sources & provenance
360Giving GrantNav [source]
Accessed 2026-04-08
NHS Digital / Commons Library GP Data [source]
Accessed 2026-04-08
Charity Commission Register [source]
Accessed 2026-03-31
English Indices of Deprivation [source]
Accessed 2026-04-10
ONS NOMIS Labour Market Statistics [source]
Accessed 2026-04-04
Charity Commission Annual Return Data [source]
Accessed 2026-04-10
Charity Commission Classification Extract [source]
Accessed 2026-04-08

All data on this page is drawn from official public sources. Blocked Britain has no political affiliation. It is funded by no organisation.