Failsworth

14°CLight rain shower

• Today: 18° / 13° · 79% rain
• Tomorrow: 20° / 13° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:37Sunset 19:31

12h 55m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

17US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Manchester Piccadilly, United Kingdom

720 reported road collisions (2024)

251 killed or seriously injured · 892 casualties · 13 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

• 375 rated 4–5 ★ (297 top)
• 27 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

• Nearest station: Moston (2.1 km)
• 83 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£251,250 average▲ 2.9% YoY

Across Manchester · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,365 average monthly rent▲ 3.8% YoY

• 1 bed £998
• 2 bed £1,227
• 3 bed £1,425

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

6.1× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 6.1 times median annual pay (6.2× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 156.9p · Esso (9.4 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 179.7p · Asda (5.2 km)

66 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

150 charging locations within ~8 km

• 39 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 320 kW
• Nearest: Morrisons Failsworth Poplar Street (0.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres2
• Sports pitches53
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds8

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

551,937 residents in Manchester · 4,773/km²

• Under 16: 21%
• 16–64: 70%
• 65+: 9%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Among the most deprived areas in England

Ranked 2 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

43% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,312 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (55% of 252,780)

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

219 schools · 96,844 pupils

137 primary · 30 secondary · 52 other

Ofsted: 55 of 73 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (75%)

184inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Manchester

585 CQC-registered services

• Care homes86
• GP practices139
• Dentists140
• Homecare agencies127
• Hospitals & hospices19

CQC ratings: 93% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 3 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Manchester

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

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

457 applications decided

88.8% granted · 406 granted, 51 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Lucy Powell

Labour (Co-op)

Manchester Central

Source: UK Parliament

Labour majority

• Lab 63
• LD 4
• Grn 21
• Ref 7

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

• Schools16
• GPs & clinics3
• Pharmacies2
• Supermarkets6
• Parks & greens278
• Restaurants & cafés21

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

28,950 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

86 jobs advertised · £32,826 avg

e.g. Amazon Flex Delivery Driver - Earn £14 - £18 per hour*, Sous Chef, Amazon Now E-Bike Delivery Partner - Earn £13 - £15 per hour*

Source: Adzuna

£716 median full-time weekly pay

6% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£19,885 disposable income per head (2024)

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

54% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: C · 339,861 certificates

14% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

98% low-carbon electricity

Nuclear 58% · Wind 27% · Biomass 14% · Gas 2%

23 gCO₂/kWh · very low intensity

Latest estimate for North West England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 81.1 yrs women · 77.2 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 57.7 women · 56.7 men

61% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.0
• Feeling worthwhile7.3
• Happiness yesterday6.8
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.7

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Manchester Central:

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership820 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s409 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office321 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth230 local signatures · 112,809 nationwide
• Sever UK-Iran ties, withdraw recognition of Iran’s regime & expel all diplomats204 local signatures · 26,542 nationwide

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

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  St Wilfrid and St Ann's Church, Newton Heath · 0.4 km

  St Wilfrid and St Ann's Church is in Oldham Road, Newton Heath, Greater Manchester, England. It is a redundant Anglican parish church, which is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade…

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  Regent Mill, Failsworth · 0.6 km

  Regent Mill, Failsworth is a Grade II listed former cotton spinning mill in Failsworth, Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. It was built by the Regent Mill Co Ltd. in 1905, and purchased by the Lancashire Cotton Corp…

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  Failsworth tram stop · 0.7 km

  Failsworth tram stop is a Manchester Metrolink tram stop on the Oldham and Rochdale Line serving the town of Failsworth, Greater Manchester, England. It was formerly a railway station before its conversion to Metrolin…

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  Failsworth Town Hall · 0.8 km

  Failsworth Town Hall, also known as Failsworth and Hollinwood District Town Hall, is a former municipal building on Oldham Road, Failsworth, a town in Greater Manchester in England. The building, which served as the o…

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  Failsworth · 0.8 km

  Failsworth is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, 4 miles (6.4 km) north-east of Manchester and 3 miles (4.8 km) south-west of Oldham. The M60 ring-road motorway skirts it to the…

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  Moston Brook · 1.0 km

  Moston Brook is a stream in Greater Manchester in north-west England and a tributary of the River Irk. The brook is formed at the confluence of Bower Brook and Hole Bottom Brook. This occurs near the Rochdale Canal in…

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