Waterhead
Middle areaSouth west Oldham. 8,238 people in 1.6 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by middle area
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 100% of people in Waterhead live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
Recorded crime in Waterhead
Greater Manchester Police has supplied almost no data to police.uk since July 2019, so there is no figure for Greater Manchester.
How Waterhead compares
Each dot is a middle area. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Waterhead?
Waterhead had 7,750 usual residents at the census.
Waterhead is the joint 3,966th most 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 Waterhead alone. See Oldham
Waterhead in brief
The median price paid for a home in Waterhead was £187,000 in 2025.
Waterhead had 7,750 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Waterhead live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Waterhead, 99.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.