Higher Irlam
Middle areaSouth west Salford. 9,725 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 8.7 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by middle area
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Higher Irlam live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
Recorded crime in Higher Irlam
Greater Manchester Police has supplied almost no data to police.uk since July 2019, so there is no figure for Greater Manchester.
How Higher Irlam compares
Each dot is a middle area. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Higher Irlam?
Higher Irlam had 9,698 usual residents at the census.
Higher Irlam is the joint 1,416th most populated of 9,448 in the UK.
Figures for the whole of Salford
These figures are published for the whole of Salford, not for each middle area, so they describe all of Salford and not Higher Irlam alone. See Salford
Higher Irlam in brief
The median price paid for a home in Higher Irlam was £230,000 in 2025.
Higher Irlam had 9,698 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Higher Irlam live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Higher Irlam, 98.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.