Heywood

9°COvercast

• Today: 12° / 8° · 28% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 7° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:14Sunset 16:30

9h 17m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

14US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Manchester Piccadilly, United Kingdom

• 7.1 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 5.3% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

1 reported · August 2026

• Violence & sexual offences1

Neighbourhood team: North Heywood · Greater Manchester

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

161 reported road collisions (2025)

57 killed or seriously injured · 196 casualties · 8.3 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

343 food businesses within 2 miles

• 246 rated 4–5 ★ (207 top)
• 27 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

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

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£243,107 average▲ 2.8% YoY

Across Bury · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£969 average monthly rent▲ 0.8% YoY

• 1 bed £686
• 2 bed £888
• 3 bed £1,065

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

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

2,283 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

• Cheapest petrol: 154.9p · Esso (7 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 186.9p · Esso (7 km)

19 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)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK10,802
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK10,496
• Net moves+306

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

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 107 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

11% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£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

92 schools · 28,108 pupils

64 primary · 14 secondary · 14 other

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

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Bury

208 CQC-registered services

• Care homes55
• 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)

207 applications decided

87.9% granted · 182 granted, 25 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

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)

8,820 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

118 jobs advertised · £35,896 avg

e.g. Market Research Field Interviewer Car Required Part-time, HGV Class 1 Driver, Yard Shunter Driver - HGV Class 1 - Nights

Source: Adzuna

£725 median full-time weekly pay

4.4% 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

71% low-carbon electricity

Nuclear 39% · Wind 30% · Gas 21% · Imports 9%

82 gCO₂/kWh · 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

9 GP surgeries · 6 pharmacies in OL10

• Longford Street Medical Centre
• Heywood Health
• Hopwood Medical Centre

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

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

• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth255 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Launch a public inquiry into illegal migration in the UK162 local signatures · 78,478 nationwide
• Raise Human Rights Issues in Azad Kashmir with the Government of Pakistan 158 local signatures · 20,508 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND131 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Provide lifelong vet care and financial support for retired service animals108 local signatures · 55,079 nationwide

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

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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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  Grapes Inn, Heywood · 0.8 km

  The Grapes Inn is a former public house on Peel Lane in Heywood, a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. Built in 1926 as part of the Back o'th' Moss housing estate, it is note…

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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.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)