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Tameside

Tameside is a town or village in Greater Manchester, England. It has 83 bus stops and Stalybridge railway station is 0.4 km away. The area offers 2 GPs & clinics, 4 pharmacies, 1 supermarket, and 12 restaurants & cafés. Covers 5 towns with local open-data for the whole authority.

On deprivation, Tameside is among the most deprived areas in England (IoD2025). It is home to around 231,071 residents at roughly 2,240 people per km².

27/ 100

My Area Score

Challenged

Ranked 283rd of 294 English council areas — better than 4% of them.

Low crime19
Home affordability71
Affordable rents49
Good schools16
Life expectancy4
Low deprivation14
Employment16
Low council tax47

A percentile blend of eight open measures (100 = best in England); bars show this area’s England-wide percentile on each. See the rankings · methodology

Weather

11°CPatchy rain nearby

  • Today: 11° / 7° · 45% rain
  • Tomorrow: 10° / 7° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 07:13Sunset 16:30

9h 17m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

24US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Manchester Piccadilly, United Kingdom

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 7.6 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
  • 5.7% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

Crime

No street-level crime recorded here.

Road safety

201 reported road collisions (2025)

67 killed or seriously injured · 238 casualties · 8.7 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

  • 419 rated 4–5 ★ (342 top)
  • 15 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Stalybridge (0.4 km)
  • 83 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Stalybridge (0.4 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£213,026 average▲ 1.4% YoY

Across Tameside · to 2026-08

Detached£370,564
Semi-detached£243,619
Terraced£186,896
Flat£125,225

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£931 average monthly rent▲ 5.2% YoY

  • 1 bed £685
  • 2 bed £885
  • 3 bed £1,063

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

Affordability

6.9× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 6.9 times median annual pay (6.6× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Property sales

2,577 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 156.9p · Esso (9.8 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 189.9p · Esso (9.8 km)

17 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

53 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 24 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 350 kW
  • Nearest: Rassbottom Street Car Park (0.5 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres3
  • Sports pitches34
  • Golf courses1
  • Playgrounds6

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

231,071 residents in Tameside · 2,240/km²

  • Under 16: 20%
  • 16–64: 63%
  • 65+: 18%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • Moves in from elsewhere in the UK12,721
  • Moves out to elsewhere in the UK11,947
  • Net moves+774

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

Deprivation

Among the most deprived areas in England

Ranked 41 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

18% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,447 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (50% of 105,660)

A £1,631
B £1,903
C £2,175
D £2,447
E £2,991
F £3,535
G £4,079
H £4,894

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

Schools

111 schools · 35,802 pupils

75 primary · 16 secondary · 20 other

Ofsted: 34 of 43 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (79%)

96 inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Secondary schools:

  • Laurus RyecroftOutstanding
  • Audenshaw SchoolGood
  • Dixons Pennine AcademyGood
  • Fairfield High School for GirlsGood
  • Mossley Hollins High SchoolGood
  • Alder Community High SchoolRequires improvement
  • Hyde High SchoolRequires improvement
  • Rayner Stephens High SchoolRequires improvement
  • Denton Community AcademyInadequate
  • All Saints Catholic College
  • Dixons Ashton Academy
  • Droylsden Academy
  • Longdendale High School
  • St Damian's RC Science College
  • St Thomas More RC College
  • West Hill School

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Tameside

Care & health services

167 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes43
  • GP practices35
  • Dentists34
  • Homecare agencies30
  • Hospitals & hospices3

CQC ratings: 89% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 1 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Tameside

Heritage & planning

  • Not in the Green Belt
  • 30 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

Planning decisions

146 applications decided

87% granted · 127 granted, 19 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Your MP

Jonathan Reynolds

Labour (Co-op)

Stalybridge and Hyde

Recent votes:

  • AyeBudget Resolution No. 86: High value council tax surcharge
  • AyeBudget Resolution No. 76: Rates of alcohol duty
  • AyeBudget Resolution No. 55: Value added tax (electric vehicle charging)
  • AyeBudget Resolution No. 15: Charges in connection with employment visas

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Labour (minority)

  • Lab 25
  • Con 5
  • Ref 19
  • Oth 8

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

Amenities nearby

  • Schools14
  • GPs & clinics4
  • Pharmacies4
  • Supermarkets3
  • Parks & greens13
  • Restaurants & cafés16

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

7,610 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Local economy

£695 median full-time weekly pay

4.9% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£20,268 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

Energy efficiency

45% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 115,218 certificates

12% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

Grid electricity

72% low-carbon electricity

Nuclear 40% · Wind 27% · Gas 19% · Imports 9%

76 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for North West England · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 80.9 yrs women · 77.5 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 56 women · 55.2 men

69% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.3
  • Feeling worthwhile7.7
  • Happiness yesterday7.4
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.2

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Health services

6 GP surgeries · 6 pharmacies in SK15

  • Lockside Medical Centre
  • Staveleigh Medical Centre
  • St. Andrew'S House Surgery

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Stalybridge and Hyde:

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

Notable places nearby

  • Stalybridge Mill, Stalybridge · 0.2 km

    Stalybridge Mill, Stalybridge is a cotton spinning mill in Stalybridge, Tameside, Greater Manchester, England. It was built in 1868, and the engine reconfigured in around 1925. It was taken over by the Lancashire Cott…

  • Stalybridge railway station · 0.4 km

    Stalybridge railway station serves the town of Stalybridge, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies on the Huddersfield Line, 7+1⁄2 miles (12.1 km) east of Manchester Piccadilly and 8+1⁄4 miles (13.3 km) east of Manch…

  • Stalybridge railway station (Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway) · 0.5 km

    Stalybridge railway station was one of two that served the town of Stalybridge, in Cheshire, England. Owned by Ashton, Stalybridge and Liverpool Junction Railway (AS&LJR), the station was in use from 1846 to 1917; it…

  • Stalybridge War Memorial · 0.6 km

    Stalybridge War Memorial is a Grade II* listed monument at the northern end of Trinity Street in Stalybridge, a town within Tameside, Greater Manchester, England. It commemorates the men of Stalybridge who lost their…

  • Dukinfield / Stalybridge · 0.6 km

    Dukinfield / Stalybridge is an electoral ward of Tameside, England. It is represented in Westminster by Jonathan Reynolds Labour Co-operative MP for Stalybridge and Hyde.

  • Stalybridge Town Hall · 0.6 km

    Stalybridge Town Hall was a municipal building in Stamford Street, Stalybridge, Greater Manchester, England. The building, which was the meeting place of Stalybridge Borough Council, was a Grade II listed building.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)