Aiming at the unsatisfactory low-frequency sound absorption effect of Helmholtz resonator, a novel broadband low-frequency ventilation absorber with rough neck is proposed. The roughness is introduced into the neck of Helmholtz resonator to change the shape of the neck and achieve the structure of rough neck Helmholtz resonator. The proposed absorber can effectively provide the acoustic impedance required for low-frequency sound absorption without changing the overall size, thereby reducing the resonant frequency. The finite element method is used to simulate the structure, and the impedance tube sound absorption test is carried out to verify it. The experimental and simulation results show high consistency with each other. The results also indicate that the rough neck Helmholtz resonator absorber with roughness introduced in the neck achieves an absorption peak at 58 Hz, with an absorption coefficient of about 0.63. Comparing with the absorber without roughness introduced, the resonant peak frequency becomes low, from 70 Hz to 58 Hz, reducing 17.1%. Therefore, adjusting the neck roughness can serve as a method of tuning the acoustic performance, and the absorption peak frequency can be adjusted by appropriately increasing the neck roughness so as to move it in the low frequency direction. Based on the verification that the roughness of the neck can effectively reduce the absorption peak frequency of Helmholtz resonator, a broadband low-frequency ventilation absorber with a rough neck, which is composed of eight absorption units, is designed. Through simulation calculation and experimental exploration, the absorption coefficient can achieve more than 0.8 in a target working frequency band of 500－1100 Hz. On this basis, the acoustic impedance of the structure can be adjusted by introducing roughness into the neck of Helmholtz resonator, so as to obtain the optimized broadband low-frequency ventilation absorber with a rough neck, which achieves a broadband sound absorption coefficient higher than 0.8 in a frequency range of 400–1200 Hz. The optimized structure also has 8 consecutive absorption peaks with amplitudes above 0.95. The proposed low-frequency broadband ventilation absorber provides a reference for designing and optimizing efficient low-frequency subwavelength acoustic absorbers. It has a wide range of applications in pipeline noise control.