Newhey

15°CLight rain shower

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

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:36Sunset 19:31

12h 55m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

28US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Manchester Piccadilly, United Kingdom

216 reported road collisions (2024)

67 killed or seriously injured · 290 casualties · 8.9 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

197 food businesses within 2 miles

• 156 rated 4–5 ★ (126 top)
• 8 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Smithy Bridge (4.2 km)
• 17 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£214,850 average▲ 5.1% YoY

Across Oldham · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£931 average monthly rent▲ 11% YoY

• 1 bed £694
• 2 bed £868
• 3 bed £1,054

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 (6.0× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 155.9p · Esso (8 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 183.7p · Asda (7 km)

18 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

34 charging locations within ~8 km

• 4 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 50 kW
• Nearest: Westway Car Park (2.6 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches10
• Golf courses2
• Playgrounds4

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

• Toughest half marathon in the UK returns· 3 Sept 2026
• Historic chippy Levers makes a splash in new home as Spindles welcomes wave of new investment· 2 Sept 2026
• Nostalgic Oldham to bring free family fun and retro entertainment to town centre· 2 Sept 2026
• The Spindles celebrates five major retail investments as town centre momentum continues· 25 Aug 2026
• Council secures court order following unauthorised encampment at Oldham Edge· 24 Aug 2026

Source: Oldham Council

242,088 residents in Oldham · 1,700/km²

• Under 16: 23%
• 16–64: 61%
• 65+: 16%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Among the most deprived areas in England

Ranked 29 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

30% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,602 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (52% of 99,060)

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

128 schools · 45,967 pupils

86 primary · 14 secondary · 28 other

Ofsted: 36 of 47 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (77%)

105inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Oldham

226 CQC-registered services

• Care homes46
• GP practices42
• Dentists55
• Homecare agencies65
• Hospitals & hospices7

CQC ratings: 93% of rated services Good or Outstanding

Source: Care Quality Commission · Oldham

• Within the Green Belt
• 18 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

132 applications decided

91.7% granted · 121 granted, 11 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

TBC majority

• Lab 18
• Con 4
• LD 6
• Ref 16
• Oth 16

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

• Schools3
• GPs & clinics2
• Parks & greens3
• Restaurants & cafés6

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

8,570 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

2 jobs advertised · £34,569 avg

e.g. Hotel Kitchen - Team Member, Supporting Families Key Worker – Short Breaks Service

Source: Adzuna

£681 median full-time weekly pay

6.6% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£18,775 disposable income per head (2024)

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

40% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 111,873 certificates

12.8% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Life expectancy: 81.5 yrs women · 78.4 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 56.7 women · 56.1 men

68% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.2
• Feeling worthwhile7.6
• Happiness yesterday7.3
• 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 Rochdale:

• Raise Human Rights Issues in Azad Kashmir with the Government of Pakistan 641 local signatures · 19,618 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s329 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office301 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership232 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test210 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide

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

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  Newhey tram stop · 0.8 km

  Newhey is a tram stop on the Oldham and Rochdale Line (ORL) of Greater Manchester's light-rail Metrolink system. It opened to passengers on 28 February 2013 and is located in Newhey, a suburban village the Metropolita…

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  Piethorne Brook · 0.8 km

  Piethorne Brook is a watercourse in Greater Manchester. It is a tributary of the River Beal.

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  Rough Bank Farmhouse · 0.8 km

  Rough Bank Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in Newhey, a village in the town of Milnrow within the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. It is an early 17th-century farmhouse notable f…

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  Newhey · 1.0 km

  Newhey is a village in the town of Milnrow in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies at the foot of the South Pennines, by Junction 21 of the M62 motorway and on the River Beal,…

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  Royton Urban District · 1.1 km

  Royton was a local government district from 1863 to 1974 in Lancashire, England, which covered the modern-day town of Royton, and its suburbs and districts.

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  Oldham East and Saddleworth · 1.1 km

  Oldham East and Saddleworth is a constituency in outer Greater Manchester represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since January 2011 by Debbie Abrahams of the Labour Party.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)