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Cheadle (Stockport)

Cheadle (Stockport) is a town in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of around 1,000. It has 3 schools, 1 supermarket, and 13 restaurants and cafés, with 35 bus stops and the nearest railway station at Gatley, 1.8 km away. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Cheadle (Stockport) area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Stockport area is around the average in England (IoD2019). The wider council area has around 294,773 residents at roughly 2,338 people per km².

Council
Stockport
County
Greater Manchester
Constituency
Cheadle
Police force
Greater Manchester
36/ 100

My Area Score

Challenged

Ranked 255th of 294 English council areas — better than 13% of them.

Low crime37
Home affordability46
Affordable rents44
Good schools6
Life expectancy48
Low deprivation48
Employment57
Low council tax8

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

14°CFog

  • Today: 19° / 14° · 72% rain
  • Tomorrow: 22° / 14° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:37Sunset 19:31

12h 55m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

8US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: coarse particles (PM10)

Source: WAQI · Stockport Hazel Grove, United Kingdom

Crime

No street-level crime recorded here.

Road safety

221 reported road collisions (2024)

71 killed or seriously injured · 268 casualties · 7.5 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

  • 402 rated 4–5 ★ (349 top)
  • 5 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Gatley (1.8 km)
  • 35 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Gatley (1.8 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£314,495 average 3.5% YoY

Across Stockport · to 2026-06

Detached£548,759
Semi-detached£344,461
Terraced£251,311
Flat£173,714

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£1,111 average monthly rent 5.1% YoY

  • 1 bed £807
  • 2 bed £1,029
  • 3 bed £1,257

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

Affordability

8.6× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 8.6 times median annual pay (8.5× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 156.9p · Esso (3.7 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 183.9p · Morrisons (9.2 km)

54 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

72 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 20 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 300 kW
  • Nearest: BizSpace Cheadle Place (0.5 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres6
  • Gyms2
  • Sports pitches82
  • Golf courses2
  • Playgrounds15

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

294,773 residents in Stockport · 2,338/km²

  • Under 16: 19%
  • 16–64: 61%
  • 65+: 20%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Deprivation

Around the average in England

Ranked 154 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

9% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

Council tax

£2,619 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (24% of 133,540)

A £1,746
B £2,037
C £2,328
D £2,619
E £3,201
F £3,783
G £4,365
H £5,238

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

Schools

138 schools · 47,342 pupils

87 primary · 14 secondary · 37 other

Ofsted: 43 of 58 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (74%)

117inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Secondary schools:

  • Laurus Cheadle HulmeOutstanding
  • Bramhall High SchoolGood
  • Hazel Grove High SchoolGood
  • St Anne's RC Voluntary AcademyGood
  • Stockport SchoolGood
  • Priestnall SchoolRequires improvement
  • The Kingsway SchoolRequires improvement
  • Reddish Vale High SchoolInadequate
  • Werneth SchoolInadequate
  • Cheadle Hulme High School
  • Harrytown Catholic High School
  • Marple Hall School
  • St James' Catholic High School
  • Stockport Academy

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Stockport

Care & health services

307 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes67
  • GP practices49
  • Dentists78
  • Homecare agencies73
  • Hospitals & hospices9

CQC ratings: 89% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 2 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Stockport

Heritage & planning

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

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

Planning decisions

332 applications decided

94.3% granted · 313 granted, 19 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Your MP

Tom Morrison

Liberal Democrat

Cheadle

Recent votes:

  • NoTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading
  • NoSocial Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading
  • AyeDraft Plant Health, Seeds, Seed Potatoes and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2026
  • AyeHealth Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 145

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Liberal Democrat majority

  • Lab 14
  • Con 1
  • LD 34
  • Grn 4
  • Ref 2
  • Oth 8

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools15
  • Pharmacies1
  • Supermarkets3
  • Parks & greens1114
  • Restaurants & cafés16

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

13,810 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

Local economy

£782 median full-time weekly pay

3% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£26,236 disposable income per head (2024)

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

Energy efficiency

37% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 129,334 certificates

10.2% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Grid electricity

72% low-carbon electricity

Nuclear 58% · Imports 18% · Gas 10% · Biomass 7%

46 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for North West England · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 84.2 yrs women · 79.6 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 63.1 women · 61.8 men

62% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.5
  • Feeling worthwhile7.8
  • Happiness yesterday7.3
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.6

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

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Cheadle:

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

Notable places nearby

  • Park Road Stadium · 0.1 km

    The Ground Up Solutions Stadium is an association football stadium in Cheadle, Stockport, England. It is the home ground of North West Counties Football League club Cheadle Town F.C. and FA Women's National League clu…

  • Cheadle Town F.C. · 0.1 km

    Cheadle Town Football Club are a semi-professional football club based in Cheadle, a suburb of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. They were established in 1961 and joined the North West Counties Football League i…

  • Cheadle (constituency) · 0.4 km

    Cheadle is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom since 2024 by Tom Morrison of the Liberal Democrats. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-p…

  • Moseley Old Hall, Cheadle · 0.5 km

    Moseley Old Hall is a small 17th-century country house on Cuthbert Road in Cheadle, a suburban village within the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England.

  • Cheadle Bulkeley · 0.5 km

    Cheadle Bulkeley was a township in the ancient parish of Cheadle and later a separate civil parish, now in Greater Manchester, England. It lay in the historic county of Cheshire. In 1851 it had a population of 5489.

  • Cheadle, Greater Manchester · 0.5 km

    Cheadle is a suburban village in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, in Greater Manchester, England. Within the boundaries of the historic county of Cheshire, it borders Cheadle Hulme, Gatley, Heald Green and Chead…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Cheadle (Stockport)?
Cheadle (Stockport) is a town in Greater Manchester, England, in the Stockport local authority.
How deprived is Cheadle (Stockport)?
The Stockport local authority, which includes Cheadle (Stockport), is around the average in England on the IoD2019.