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Partington

Partington is a town in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of around 7,895. It has 1 supermarket and 19 restaurants and cafés, 39 bus stops, and the nearest railway station is Irlam, 1.8 km away. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Partington area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Trafford area is less deprived than the average in England (IoD2019). The wider council area has around 235,052 residents at roughly 2,217 people per km².

Council
Trafford
County
Greater Manchester
Constituency
Stretford and Urmston
Police force
Greater Manchester
53/ 100

My Area Score

Good

Ranked 132nd of 294 English council areas — better than 55% of them.

Low crime48
Home affordability32
Affordable rents27
Good schools49
Life expectancy62
Low deprivation66
Employment57
Low council tax84

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

10°COvercast

  • Today: 19° / 10° · 74% rain
  • Tomorrow: 19° / 14° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:36Sunset 19:35

12h 59m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

38US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Glazebury, United Kingdom

Crime

No street-level crime recorded here.

Road safety

190 reported road collisions (2024)

56 killed or seriously injured · 241 casualties · 8.1 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

128 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 103 rated 4–5 ★ (81 top)
  • 2 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

Flood data temporarily unavailable.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Irlam (1.8 km)
  • 39 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Irlam (1.8 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£396,811 average 9.7% YoY

Across Trafford · to 2026-06

Detached£800,316
Semi-detached£448,945
Terraced£347,155
Flat£218,367

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£1,367 average monthly rent 2.5% YoY

  • 1 bed £943
  • 2 bed £1,200
  • 3 bed £1,480

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

Affordability

9.6× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 9.6 times median annual pay (10.0× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 151.9p · BP (8.3 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 175.7p · Asda (11.4 km)

38 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

36 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 4 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 250 kW
  • Nearest: Tesco Extra - Irlam (2.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres1
  • Sports pitches30
  • Playgrounds13

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

235,052 residents in Trafford · 2,217/km²

  • Under 16: 21%
  • 16–64: 62%
  • 65+: 18%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Deprivation

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 209 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

5% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

Council tax

£2,292 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (27% of 104,310)

A £1,528
B £1,782
C £2,037
D £2,292
E £2,801
F £3,310
G £3,820
H £4,583

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

Schools

102 schools · 44,496 pupils

62 primary · 19 secondary · 21 other

Ofsted: 38 of 43 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (88%)

90inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Secondary schools:

  • Altrincham Grammar School for BoysOutstanding
  • Altrincham Grammar School for GirlsOutstanding
  • Loreto Grammar SchoolOutstanding
  • Sale Grammar SchoolOutstanding
  • Altrincham CollegeGood
  • Flixton Girls SchoolGood
  • Saint Ambrose CollegeGood
  • Stretford High SchoolGood
  • Urmston Grammar AcademyGood
  • Broadoak SchoolRequires improvement
  • St Antony's Roman Catholic School, a Voluntary AcademyRequires improvement
  • Wellacre Technology AcademyRequires improvement
  • Ashton-on-Mersey School
  • Blessed Thomas Holford Catholic College
  • Lostock High School
  • North Cestrian School
  • Sale High School
  • Stretford Grammar School
  • Wellington School

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Trafford

Care & health services

260 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes56
  • GP practices49
  • Dentists71
  • Homecare agencies63
  • Hospitals & hospices3

CQC ratings: 92% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 5 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Trafford

Heritage & planning

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

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

Planning decisions

324 applications decided

86.1% granted · 279 granted, 45 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Your MP

Andrew Western

Labour

Stretford and Urmston

Recent votes:

  • AyeTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading
  • AyeClosure motion
  • NoSocial Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading
  • AyeDraft Plant Health, Seeds, Seed Potatoes and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2026

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Labour majority

  • Lab 35
  • Con 12
  • LD 7
  • Grn 7
  • Ref 1
  • Oth 1

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools6
  • Supermarkets1
  • Parks & greens9
  • Restaurants & cafés20

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

13,275 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

Jobs

20 jobs advertised · £47,378 avg

e.g. Catering Assistant, Online Italian Tutor - Part Time, Registered Nursing Home Manager

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£869 median full-time weekly pay

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

£29,384 disposable income per head (2024)

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

Energy efficiency

40% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 104,226 certificates

9.8% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Grid electricity

93% low-carbon electricity

Wind 57% · Nuclear 34% · Imports 4% · Gas 3%

16 gCO₂/kWh · very low intensity

Latest estimate for North West England · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 84.4 yrs women · 80.7 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 65.2 women · 63.8 men

63% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.5
  • Feeling worthwhile7.7
  • Happiness yesterday7.3
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.5

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

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Stretford and Urmston:

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

Notable places nearby

  • Partington · 0.3 km

    Partington is a town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. It is sited ten miles (16 km) south-west of Manchester city centre. Within the boundaries of the historic cou…

  • Partington railway station · 0.7 km

    Partington railway station was situated on the Cheshire Lines Committee route between Warrington and Stockport. It served the locality between 1874 and 1964.

  • Cadishead Viaduct · 0.7 km

    Cadishead Viaduct is a disused railway viaduct of multi-lattice girder construction. It was built in 1892 by the Cheshire Lines Committee to clear the newly built Manchester Ship Canal to carry the new deviation of th…

  • Broadoak School · 0.8 km

    Broadoak School is a coeducational secondary school with academy status located in Partington in the English county of Greater Manchester.

  • Cadishead · 1.1 km

    Cadishead is a village in the City of Salford in Greater Manchester, England, with a 2014 population of 10,739, situated within the historic county of Lancashire.

  • Cadishead railway station · 1.2 km

    Cadishead railway station was a railway station on the Cheshire Lines Committees Glazebrook East Junction to Skelton Junction Line serving the village of Cadishead, near Irlam, Greater Manchester.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

Frequently asked questions

Where is Partington?
Partington is a town in Greater Manchester, England, in the Trafford local authority.
What is the population of Partington?
Partington has an approximate settlement population of 7,895.
How deprived is Partington?
The Trafford local authority, which includes Partington, is less deprived than the average in England on the IoD2019.