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Audenshaw

Town

Town in Tameside, North West.

Audenshaw is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Audenshaw 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.

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Radon Affected Area by town

Worked out by Open Index · 2022

Under 1%90% or more

About 13% of people in Audenshaw live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Median sale price
£250,000
Joint 469th cheapest of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
13,397
431st least populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
13%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
96.4%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026

How Audenshaw compares

Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.

AudenshawMiddle
Median sale price161 towns, North West · 2025
Median sale price: every town in North West161 areas from £95,000 to £700,000. The middle area is £222,000. Audenshaw is £250,000.
£250,00050th most expensive
Population161 towns, North West · 2021
Population: every town in North West161 areas from 7,551 to 506,564. The middle area is 22,886. Audenshaw is 13,397.
13,39743rd least populated
People in radon Affected Area squares161 towns, North West · 2022
People in radon Affected Area squares: every town in North West161 areas from 0.0% to 100.0%. The middle area is 29.0%. Audenshaw is 13.0%.
13%68th fewest people in radon Affected Areas
Gigabit broadband coverage161 towns, North West · Jan 2026
Gigabit broadband coverage: every town in North West161 areas from 35.0% to 99.6%. The middle area is 95.7%. Audenshaw is 96.4%.
96.4%joint 59th highest

What is the population of Audenshaw?

Audenshaw had 13,397 usual residents at the census.

Audenshaw is the 431st least populated of 1,209 in the UK.

Deprivation in Audenshaw, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Audenshaw has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
  • 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 Audenshaw

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Tameside 014A2,962No figure995.2%
Tameside 014B1,419No figure691.9%
Tameside 014C1,376No figure699.5%
Tameside 014D1,299No figure798.9%
Tameside 019A1,161No figure698.9%
Tameside 019B1,522No figure599.7%
Tameside 019C1,733No figure292.8%
Tameside 019E1,424No figure194.9%

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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 Audenshaw1

Middle areas in Audenshaw2

Towns near Audenshaw6

Audenshaw in brief

Audenshaw is a town in Tameside, North West.

About 14,490 people lived in Audenshaw in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £250,000 in 2025 across 186 sales (HM Land Registry).

The median price paid for a home in Audenshaw was £250,000 in 2025.

Audenshaw had 13,397 usual residents at the census.

About 13% of people in Audenshaw live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Audenshaw, 96.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.