Failsworth West
Middle areaSouth west Oldham. 7,162 people in 1.6 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by middle area
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 81% of people in Failsworth West live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
Recorded crime in Failsworth West
Greater Manchester Police has supplied almost no data to police.uk since July 2019, so there is no figure for Greater Manchester.
How Failsworth West compares
Each dot is a middle area. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Failsworth West?
Failsworth West had 6,787 usual residents at the census.
Failsworth West is the joint 3,949th least populated of 9,448 in the UK.
Figures for the whole of Oldham
These figures are published for the whole of Oldham, not for each middle area, so they describe all of Oldham and not Failsworth West alone. See Oldham
Failsworth West in brief
The median price paid for a home in Failsworth West was £189,950 in 2025.
Failsworth West had 6,787 usual residents at the census.
About 81% of people in Failsworth West live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Failsworth West, 97.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.