# Altrincham

Town in Trafford, North West.

Altrincham is a town in Trafford, North West. Median sale price £411,250 in 2025. About 50,611 people.

Town. Code E63001395. In: [Towns](https://openindex.co.uk/places/towns) › [Trafford](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford)

Altrincham is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Altrincham add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.

## Key figures

- **Median sale price: £411,250** (2025). The median price paid for a home in Altrincham was £411,250 in 2025. 176th most expensive of 1,092. Source: Worked out by Open Index from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. Published 28 September 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/altrincham#f-house-sales-median-price
- **Population: 49,672** (2021). Altrincham had 49,672 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 221st most populated of 1,209. Source: Census 2021, England and Wales and Scotland's Census 2022 and Census 2021, Northern Ireland, 2021. Published 21 July 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/altrincham#f-population
- **People in radon Affected Area squares: 0%** (2022). About 0% of people in Altrincham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area. UK 44%. Source: Worked out by Open Index from the UKHSA and BGS radon atlas and census output areas. Published 1 December 2022. https://openindex.co.uk/town/altrincham#f-radon-affected-share
- **Gigabit broadband coverage: 93.9%** (January 2026). In Altrincham, 93.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026 (Ofcom). UK 87.8%. Source: Connected Nations (Ofcom), January 2026. Published 13 May 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/altrincham#f-gigabit-coverage

## On the map

- [Radon Affected Area by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas?place=E63001395) (Worked out by Open Index · 2022): About 0% of people in Altrincham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
- [Sales per year by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/house-sales-per-year?place=E63001395) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 832 homes were sold in Altrincham in 2025.
- [Population by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population?place=E63001395) (Census 2021, England and Wales): Altrincham had 49,672 usual residents at the census.
- [Deprivation score by council](https://openindex.co.uk/map/deprivation-score-england?place=E63001395) (English Indices of Deprivation 2025): Published for whole councils, so the map colours all of Trafford, where most of this town lies. The outline is Altrincham.

## How Altrincham compares

Each town against every other town the measure covers.

| Measure | Altrincham | Rank | Compared with |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Median sale price | £411,250 | 8th most expensive | 161 towns, North West · 2025 |
| Population | 49,672 | 34th most populated | 161 towns, North West · 2021 |
| People in radon Affected Area squares | 0% | joint fewest people in radon Affected Areas | 161 towns, North West · 2022 |
| Gigabit broadband coverage | 93.9% | 46th lowest | 161 towns, North West · Jan 2026 |

## What is the population of Altrincham?

Altrincham had 49,672 usual residents at the census.
Altrincham is the 221st most populated of 1,209 in the UK.

## Deprivation in Altrincham, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Altrincham has no single figure. Of its 27 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 11 neighbourhoods

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.

## Neighbourhoods in Altrincham

| Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Trafford 019A](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/neighbourhood/e01006091) | 2,970 | – | 9 | 95.2% |
| [Trafford 019B](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/neighbourhood/e01006092) | 1,331 | – | 3 | 84.7% |
| [Trafford 020A](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/neighbourhood/e01006090) | 2,300 | – | 9 | 97.5% |
| [Trafford 020C](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/neighbourhood/e01006096) | 1,610 | – | 10 | 93.8% |
| [Trafford 021B](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/neighbourhood/e01006190) | 1,687 | – | 10 | 96.7% |
| [Trafford 021C](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/neighbourhood/e01006195) | 1,795 | – | 10 | 100.0% |
| [Trafford 021D](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/neighbourhood/e01006196) | 1,700 | – | 10 | 100.0% |
| [Trafford 022A](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/neighbourhood/e01006204) | 1,620 | – | 9 | 96.9% |
| [Trafford 022B](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/neighbourhood/e01006206) | 1,869 | – | 5 | 91.0% |
| [Trafford 022C](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/neighbourhood/e01006207) | 1,750 | – | 2 | 94.1% |
| [Trafford 022D](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/neighbourhood/e01006208) | 1,551 | – | 6 | 99.7% |
| [Trafford 022E](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/neighbourhood/e01006211) | 1,612 | – | 5 | 100.0% |
| [Trafford 023A](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/neighbourhood/e01006093) | 1,527 | – | 10 | 93.9% |
| [Trafford 023B](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/neighbourhood/e01006191) | 1,708 | – | 10 | 100.0% |
| [Trafford 023C](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/neighbourhood/e01006192) | 1,517 | – | 9 | 99.3% |
| [Trafford 023D](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/neighbourhood/e01006205) | 1,342 | – | 10 | 99.8% |
| [Trafford 023E](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/neighbourhood/e01006209) | 1,643 | – | 10 | 96.8% |
| [Trafford 024A](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/neighbourhood/e01006078) | 2,122 | – | 8 | 90.2% |
| [Trafford 024B](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/neighbourhood/e01006080) | 1,968 | – | 9 | 98.5% |
| [Trafford 024C](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/neighbourhood/e01006089) | 2,014 | – | 8 | 92.8% |
| [Trafford 024D](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/neighbourhood/e01006193) | 1,570 | – | 10 | 95.7% |
| [Trafford 024E](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/neighbourhood/e01006194) | 2,431 | – | 8 | 96.3% |
| [Trafford 025A](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/neighbourhood/e01006074) | 1,643 | – | 5 | 94.1% |
| [Trafford 025B](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/neighbourhood/e01006075) | 2,146 | – | 9 | 79.6% |
| [Trafford 025C](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/neighbourhood/e01006076) | 1,675 | – | 10 | 80.9% |
| [Trafford 025D](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/neighbourhood/e01006079) | 2,598 | – | 10 | 97.0% |
| [Trafford 027A](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/neighbourhood/e01006077) | 1,643 | – | 7 | 95.1% |

## Your MP

- [Altrincham and Sale West](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/altrincham-and-sale-west): Mr Connor Rand (Labour), MP since July 2024.

As of 18 October 2026. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.

## Council

[Trafford](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford)

## Postcode districts covering Altrincham

[WA14](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/wa14), [WA15](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/wa15)

## Middle areas in Altrincham

[Altrincham East](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/altrincham-east), [Altrincham West, Dunham & Warburton](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/altrincham-west-dunham-and-warburton), [Timperley East](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/timperley-east), [Timperley North](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/timperley-north), [Timperley South](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/timperley-south)

## Towns near Altrincham

[Sale](https://openindex.co.uk/town/sale), [Wythenshawe](https://openindex.co.uk/town/wythenshawe), [Hale](https://openindex.co.uk/town/hale), [Partington](https://openindex.co.uk/town/partington), [Urmston](https://openindex.co.uk/town/urmston), [Stretford](https://openindex.co.uk/town/stretford)

## Altrincham in brief

Altrincham is a town in Trafford, North West.
About 50,611 people lived in Altrincham in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £411,250 in 2025 across 832 sales (HM Land Registry).
The median price paid for a home in Altrincham was £411,250 in 2025.
Altrincham had 49,672 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Altrincham live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Altrincham, 93.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.

## About

- Type: Town
- Code: E63001395
- Constituency: [Altrincham and Sale West †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/altrincham-and-sale-west)
- Council: [Trafford †](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford)
- Region: [North West](https://openindex.co.uk/north-west)
- Nation: [England](https://openindex.co.uk/england)
- Area: 10.74 km²
- People, mid-2024: 50,611*
- Neighbourhoods: 27
- Output areas: 156

* People: worked out by Open Index from neighbourhood estimates, shared out by where people lived at the census (by area in Northern Ireland). This area's edges do not follow neighbourhood edges, so the figure is close but not exact.
† Best fit: the constituency and council this town mostly lies in. Its edges do not follow theirs.

## Next door

[Hale](https://openindex.co.uk/town/hale), [Sale](https://openindex.co.uk/town/sale), [Wythenshawe](https://openindex.co.uk/town/wythenshawe), [Partington](https://openindex.co.uk/town/partington), [Urmston](https://openindex.co.uk/town/urmston), [Stretford](https://openindex.co.uk/town/stretford)

## Latest updates for Altrincham

- August 2026 house prices published: HM Land Registry and partners · Oct 2026.
- September 2026 rent published: ONS private rents · Oct 2026.
- Dental practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026.
- Schools updated: Ofsted · Oct 2026.

The same figures as JSON: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/places/E63001395

## How to cite

Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/town/altrincham, or to one figure with its anchor, https://openindex.co.uk/town/altrincham#f-house-sales-median-price.

Open Index's own text and the figures it works out are licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Source data keeps its publishers' licences, named with each figure. Give each figure's period and source with it.

Snapshot 2026.10.9, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23508848. The HTML page: https://openindex.co.uk/town/altrincham