Ashton-under-Lyne
TownTown in Tameside, North West.
Ashton-under-Lyne is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Ashton-under-Lyne 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.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 95% of people in Ashton-under-Lyne live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Ashton-under-Lyne compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Ashton-under-Lyne?
Ashton-under-Lyne had 48,595 usual residents at the census.
Ashton-under-Lyne is the 226th most populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Deprivation in Ashton-under-Lyne, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Ashton-under-Lyne has no single figure. Of its 29 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 10 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Ashton-under-Lyne
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tameside 002A | 1,567 | No figure | 2 | 78.8% |
| Tameside 002B | 1,271 | No figure | 5 | 96.9% |
| Tameside 002C | 1,400 | No figure | 5 | 98.1% |
| Tameside 002D | 1,633 | No figure | 9 | 99.8% |
| Tameside 004A | 1,516 | No figure | 7 | 99.7% |
| Tameside 004B | 1,707 | No figure | 3 | 99.1% |
| Tameside 004C | 2,043 | No figure | 1 | 98.6% |
| Tameside 004D | 1,587 | No figure | 2 | 99.1% |
| Tameside 004E | 1,839 | No figure | 1 | 99.8% |
| Tameside 005A | 1,496 | No figure | 2 | 97.8% |
| Tameside 005B | 1,376 | No figure | 5 | 97.9% |
| Tameside 005C | 1,561 | No figure | 3 | 99.2% |
| Tameside 005D | 1,607 | No figure | 2 | 100.0% |
| Tameside 005E | 1,952 | No figure | 2 | 98.3% |
| Tameside 006A | 1,574 | No figure | 1 | 100.0% |
| Tameside 006B | 1,507 | No figure | 3 | 99.7% |
| Tameside 006C | 1,465 | No figure | 1 | 99.2% |
| Tameside 006D | 1,652 | No figure | 2 | 99.6% |
| Tameside 006E | 1,746 | No figure | 2 | 98.2% |
| Tameside 007A | 1,884 | No figure | 1 | 98.7% |
| Tameside 007B | 1,661 | No figure | 5 | 97.4% |
| Tameside 007C | 1,817 | No figure | 3 | 95.9% |
| Tameside 007D | 1,853 | No figure | 6 | 97.2% |
| Tameside 013A | 2,314 | No figure | 1 | 85.1% |
| Tameside 013B | 2,175 | No figure | 1 | 90.0% |
| Tameside 013C | 1,857 | No figure | 2 | 96.3% |
| Tameside 013E | 2,297 | No figure | 1 | 99.6% |
| Tameside 013F | 1,190 | No figure | 1 | 95.1% |
| Tameside 013G | 1,371 | No figure | 1 | 93.7% |
Your MP
- Angela RaynerLabourMP for Ashton-under-Lyne
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Ashton-under-Lyne2
Middle areas in Ashton-under-Lyne6
Towns near Ashton-under-Lyne6
Ashton-under-Lyne in brief
Ashton-under-Lyne is a town in Tameside, North West.
About 50,616 people lived in Ashton-under-Lyne in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £200,000 in 2025 across 452 sales (HM Land Registry).
The median price paid for a home in Ashton-under-Lyne was £200,000 in 2025.
Ashton-under-Lyne had 48,595 usual residents at the census.
About 95% of people in Ashton-under-Lyne live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Ashton-under-Lyne, 96.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.