Heywood

17°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 18° / 10° · 84% rain
• Tomorrow: 20° / 14° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:35Sunset 19:34

12h 59m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

21US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Manchester Piccadilly, United Kingdom

1 reported · July 2026

• Violence & sexual offences1

Neighbourhood team: North Heywood · Greater Manchester

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

165 reported road collisions (2024)

46 killed or seriously injured · 212 casualties · 8.5 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

343 food businesses within 2 miles

• 243 rated 4–5 ★ (203 top)
• 24 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Heywood (0.9 km)
• 51 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£238,446 average▲ 3.3% YoY

Across Bury · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£969 average monthly rent▲ 1.6% YoY

• 1 bed £686
• 2 bed £888
• 3 bed £1,064

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

7.1× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 7.1 times median annual pay (7.1× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 154.9p · Esso (7 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 183.7p · Asda (7.4 km)

38 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

53 charging locations within ~8 km

• 12 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 350 kW
• Nearest: Heywood Civic Centre (0.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres2
• Sports pitches29
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds11

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

193,851 residents in Bury · 1,949/km²

• Under 16: 20%
• 16–64: 62%
• 65+: 18%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 110 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

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

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,555 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (36% of 85,370)

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

91 schools · 28,108 pupils

64 primary · 14 secondary · 13 other

Ofsted: 32 of 43 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (74%)

80inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Bury

206 CQC-registered services

• Care homes53
• GP practices36
• Dentists46
• Homecare agencies54
• Hospitals & hospices9

CQC ratings: 93% of rated services Good or Outstanding

Source: Care Quality Commission · Bury

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

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

168 applications decided

80.4% granted · 135 granted, 33 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Mrs Elsie Blundell

Labour

Heywood and Middleton North

Source: UK Parliament

Labour majority

• Lab 31
• Con 3
• Ref 6
• Oth 11

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

• Schools10
• GPs & clinics2
• Pharmacies2
• Supermarkets2
• Parks & greens8
• Restaurants & cafés22

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

8,750 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

65 jobs advertised · £36,078 avg

e.g. Sales Executive/Business Development Manager, Refuse Truck Driver, Deputy Manager

Source: Adzuna

£725 median full-time weekly pay

4.3% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£23,068 disposable income per head (2024)

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

38% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 90,853 certificates

11.2% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

99% low-carbon electricity

Wind 65% · Nuclear 29% · Solar 3% · Biomass 1%

5 gCO₂/kWh · very low intensity

Latest estimate for North West England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 82.3 yrs women · 78.7 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 58.2 women · 57.4 men

65% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.5
• Feeling worthwhile7.9
• Happiness yesterday7.5
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.4

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Heywood and Middleton North:

• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office483 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s354 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership308 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Legislate to ban FPNs and prosecutions related to school attendance260 local signatures · 94,447 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth253 local signatures · 112,809 nationwide

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

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  Church of St Luke, Heywood · 0.1 km

  The Church of St Luke is an Anglican parish church on York Street in Heywood, a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active church in the Diocese of Manchester and is…

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  Heywood, Greater Manchester · 0.3 km

  Heywood is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, on the south bank of the River Roch, 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Bury, 4 miles (6.4 km) southwest of Rochdale, and 8 miles (12.9 km)…

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  Municipal Borough of Heywood · 0.3 km

  The Municipal Borough of Heywood was, from 1881 to 1974, a local government district in the administrative county of Lancashire, England, with borough status and coterminate with the town of Heywood.

• Holy Family Roman Catholic and Church of England College · 0.7 km

  Holy Family RC & CE College is a coeducational secondary school located in Heywood in the English county of Greater Manchester.

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  Heywood railway station · 0.9 km

  Heywood railway station serves the town of Heywood, in Greater Manchester, England. Formerly a stop on the national railway network, it is now the southern terminus of heritage East Lancashire Railway services.

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  Broadfield railway station · 1.0 km

  Broadfield railway station served the district of Broadfield in Heywood in Greater Manchester, England from 1869 until October 1970, when the station was closed and passenger services between Bolton & Rochdale were wi…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)