Editing Accrington (section)

==Demography==
The 2001 census gave the population of Accrington town as 35,200. The figure for the urban area was 71,220,<ref name=pop>[http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/office_of_the_chief_executive/lancashireprofile/monitors/populationurban.asp Lancashire Profile] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070808011955/http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/office_of_the_chief_executive/lancashireprofile/monitors/populationurban.asp |date=8 August 2007 }} lancashire.gov.uk</ref> increased from 70,442 in 1991. This total includes Accrington, [[Church, Lancashire|Church]], [[Clayton-le-Moors]], [[Great Harwood]] and [[Oswaldtwistle]].

The [[2011 United Kingdom census|2011 census]] gave a population of 35,456 for the Accrington built-up area subdivision (which includes [[Huncoat]], [[Baxenden]] and Rising Bridge in [[Borough of Rossendale|Rossendale]]) and a population of 125,000 for the wider [[Accrington/Rossendale Built-up area]].<ref name="AccringtonBUA">{{NOMIS2011|id=E34004905|title=Accrington/Rossendale Built-up Area|access-date=28 February 2021}}</ref> The area in 2001 was listed as {{convert|696|ha|mi2|2}}, whereas in 2011 it was {{convert|742.25|ha|mi2|2}}.<ref name=pop2011/><ref name=pop/>

The borough of [[Hyndburn]] as a whole has a population of 80,734.<ref>{{NOMIS2011|id=1946157094|title=Hyndburn Local Authority|access-date=10 February 2018}}</ref> This includes Accrington Urban Area and other outlying towns and villages such as; [[Altham, Lancashire|Altham]], [[Rishton]], part of [[Belthorn]], and Knuzden and [[Whitebirk]] (considered suburbs of [[Blackburn]]).