Borrowing estimates for Rossendale, built from published survey rates and population figures.
An estimated 47,500 adults in Rossendale held at least one credit or loan product in 2024.
Source: Estimate from FCA Financial Lives 2024 and ONS mid-2024 population estimates, Borrowing Data, 2024
Estimate: 83% of adults in the North West held at least one credit or loan product (FCA Financial Lives 2024, adults aged 18 and over) applied to 57,281 adults aged 18 and over in Rossendale (ONS mid-2024 population estimates, single-year ages summed).
An estimated 36,100 adults in Rossendale held a credit card in 2024.
Source: Estimate from FCA Financial Lives 2024 and ONS mid-2024 population estimates, Borrowing Data, 2024
Estimate: 63% of adults in the North West held a credit card (FCA Financial Lives 2024, adults aged 18 and over) applied to 57,281 adults aged 18 and over in Rossendale (ONS mid-2024 population estimates, single-year ages summed).
An estimated 13,700 adults in Rossendale were overdrawn on a current account in 2024.
Source: Estimate from FCA Financial Lives 2024 and ONS mid-2024 population estimates, Borrowing Data, 2024
Estimate: 24% of adults in the North West were overdrawn on a current account (FCA Financial Lives 2024, adults aged 18 and over) applied to 57,281 adults aged 18 and over in Rossendale (ONS mid-2024 population estimates, single-year ages summed).
An estimated 14,900 adults in Rossendale had a residential mortgage in 2024.
Source: Estimate from FCA Financial Lives 2024 and ONS mid-2024 population estimates, Borrowing Data, 2024
Estimate: 26% of adults in the North West had a residential mortgage (FCA Financial Lives 2024, adults aged 18 and over) applied to 57,281 adults aged 18 and over in Rossendale (ONS mid-2024 population estimates, single-year ages summed).
An estimated 13,200 adults in Rossendale used buy now, pay later credit in 2024.
Source: Estimate from FCA Financial Lives 2024 and ONS mid-2024 population estimates, Borrowing Data, 2024
Estimate: 23% of adults in the North West used buy now, pay later credit (FCA Financial Lives 2024, adults aged 18 and over) applied to 57,281 adults aged 18 and over in Rossendale (ONS mid-2024 population estimates, single-year ages summed).
An estimated 4,470 adults in Rossendale held high-cost credit in 2024.
Source: Estimate from FCA Financial Lives 2024 and ONS mid-2024 population estimates, Borrowing Data, 2024
Estimate: 7.8% of adults in the North West held high-cost credit (FCA Financial Lives 2024, adults aged 18 and over) applied to 57,281 adults aged 18 and over in Rossendale (ONS mid-2024 population estimates, single-year ages summed).
An estimated 16,000 adults in Rossendale had low financial resilience in 2024.
Source: Estimate from FCA Financial Lives 2024 and ONS mid-2024 population estimates, Borrowing Data, 2024
Estimate: 28% of adults in the North West had low financial resilience (FCA Financial Lives 2024, adults aged 18 and over) applied to 57,281 adults aged 18 and over in Rossendale (ONS mid-2024 population estimates, single-year ages summed).
An estimated 5,730 adults in Rossendale were in financial difficulty in 2024.
Source: Estimate from FCA Financial Lives 2024 and ONS mid-2024 population estimates, Borrowing Data, 2024
Estimate: 10% of adults in the North West were in financial difficulty (FCA Financial Lives 2024, adults aged 18 and over) applied to 57,281 adults aged 18 and over in Rossendale (ONS mid-2024 population estimates, single-year ages summed).
The estimated population aged 16 and over in Rossendale was 60,089 at mid-2025.
Source: Population estimates - local authority based by single year of age (Nomis NM_2002_1), mid-year estimates, Office for National Statistics, 30 June 2025
ONS mid-2025 population estimates (published 29 July 2026 for England and Wales; Scotland and Northern Ireland as carried in the same Nomis table), local authority boundaries as of April 2023, usual residents, as returned by the Nomis 'Aged 16+' category.
An estimated 47,500 adults in Rossendale held at least one credit or loan product in 2024. An estimated 36,100 adults in Rossendale held a credit card in 2024. An estimated 13,700 adults in Rossendale were overdrawn on a current account in 2024.
An estimated 47,500 adults in Rossendale held at least one credit or loan product in 2024.
An estimated 36,100 adults in Rossendale held a credit card in 2024.
An estimated 13,700 adults in Rossendale were overdrawn on a current account in 2024.