Walkden

8°CPartly Cloudy

• Today: 11° / 6° · 14% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 8° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:10Sunset 16:35

9h 25m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

18US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Salford Eccles, United Kingdom

• 7.5 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 5.6% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

282 reported road collisions (2025)

111 killed or seriously injured · 371 casualties · 10.4 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

434 food businesses within 2 miles

• 320 rated 4–5 ★ (241 top)
• 23 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Walkden (0.2 km)
• 60 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£223,323 average▼ 1.7% YoY

Across Salford · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,170 average monthly rent▲ 3.3% YoY

• 1 bed £888
• 2 bed £1,084
• 3 bed £1,287

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

6.0× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 6.0 times median annual pay (5.9× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

2,996 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: 151.9p · BP (8 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 183.9p · BP (8 km)

29 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

73 charging locations within ~8 km

• 24 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 250 kW
• Nearest: Limes Service Station (0.6 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres3
• Gyms1
• Sports pitches46
• Golf courses2
• Playgrounds10

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

269,923 residents in Salford · 2,777/km²

• Under 16: 20%
• 16–64: 67%
• 65+: 13%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK29,734
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK28,991
• Net moves+743

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

Among the most deprived areas in England

Ranked 34 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

25% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,594 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (47% of 135,720)

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

138 schools · 43,808 pupils

76 primary · 16 secondary · 46 other

Ofsted: 34 of 42 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (81%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Salford

253 CQC-registered services

• Care homes46
• GP practices51
• Dentists59
• Homecare agencies57
• Hospitals & hospices11

CQC ratings: 93% of rated services Good or Outstanding

Source: Care Quality Commission · Salford

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

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

194 applications decided

82% granted · 159 granted, 35 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Yasmin Qureshi

Labour

Bolton South and Walkden

Source: UK Parliament

Labour majority · directly-elected mayor

• Lab 34
• Con 6
• LD 1
• Grn 3
• Ref 14
• Oth 2

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

• Schools12
• GPs & clinics8
• Pharmacies2
• Supermarkets5
• Parks & greens12
• Restaurants & cafés31

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

12,170 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

£692 median full-time weekly pay

5.1% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£22,434 disposable income per head (2024)

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

62% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: C · 174,864 certificates

11.2% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

70% low-carbon electricity

Nuclear 45% · Wind 22% · Gas 18% · Imports 11%

76 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for North West England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 81.2 yrs women · 77.4 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 58.2 women · 57.2 men

68% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.4
• Feeling worthwhile7.7
• Happiness yesterday7.2
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.5

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

15 GP surgeries · 6 pharmacies in M28

• Walkden Medical Centre
• The Limes Medical Practice
• The Gill Medical Practice

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Bolton South and Walkden:

• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth289 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Raise Human Rights Issues in Azad Kashmir with the Government of Pakistan 251 local signatures · 20,508 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases142 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND124 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Launch a public inquiry into illegal migration in the UK124 local signatures · 78,478 nationwide

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

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  The Ellesmere · 0.0 km

  The Ellesmere is a Grade II listed former public house on Walkden Road in Walkden, a town in the City of Salford, Greater Manchester, England. Built in the 1860s or 1870s in a High Victorian Gothic style, it stood bes…

• Walkden Low Level railway station · 0.1 km

  Walkden Low Level railway station served the town of Walkden, City of Salford, Greater Manchester, England.

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  Walkden railway station · 0.2 km

  Walkden railway station serves the town of Walkden in City of Salford, Greater Manchester, England on the Manchester to Southport Line. The station is located 8+1⁄4 miles (13.3 km) north-west of Manchester with regula…

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  Walkden South · 0.2 km

  Walkden South is an area and electoral ward of Salford, England. It is represented in Westminster by Yasmin Quereshi MP for Bolton South and Walkden. The 2021 Census recorded a ward population of 11,715.

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  Walkden · 0.7 km

  Walkden is a town in the City of Salford in Greater Manchester, England, six miles northwest of central Salford, and seven miles of Manchester.

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  Ellesmere Colliery · 0.7 km

  Ellesmere Colliery was a coal mine in Walkden, Manchester, England. The pit was located on Manchester Road, a short distance south of Walkden town centre.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)