Besses
Middle areaSouth Bury. 8,807 people in 1.7 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by middle area
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 77% of people in Besses live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
Recorded crime in Besses
Greater Manchester Police has supplied almost no data to police.uk since July 2019, so there is no figure for Greater Manchester.
How Besses compares
Each dot is a middle area. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Besses?
Besses had 8,602 usual residents at the census.
Besses is the joint 2,607th most populated of 9,448 in the UK.
Figures for the whole of Bury
These figures are published for the whole of Bury, not for each middle area, so they describe all of Bury and not Besses alone. See Bury
Besses in brief
The median price paid for a home in Besses was £265,000 in 2025.
Besses had 8,602 usual residents at the census.
About 77% of people in Besses live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Besses, 99.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.