# Bredbury and Woodley

Town in Stockport, North West.

Bredbury and Woodley is a town in Stockport, North West. Median sale price £260,000 in 2025. About 17,558 people.

Town. Code E63001360. In: [Towns](https://openindex.co.uk/places/towns) › [Stockport](https://openindex.co.uk/stockport)

Bredbury and Woodley is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Bredbury and Woodley 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: £260,000** (2025). The median price paid for a home in Bredbury and Woodley was £260,000 in 2025. Joint 512th cheapest 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/bredbury-and-woodley#f-house-sales-median-price
- **Population: 17,044** (2021). Bredbury and Woodley had 17,044 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 591st least 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/bredbury-and-woodley#f-population
- **People in radon Affected Area squares: 61%** (2022). About 61% of people in Bredbury and Woodley 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/bredbury-and-woodley#f-radon-affected-share
- **Gigabit broadband coverage: 95.0%** (January 2026). In Bredbury and Woodley, 95.0% 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/bredbury-and-woodley#f-gigabit-coverage

## On the map

- [Radon Affected Area by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas?place=E63001360) (Worked out by Open Index · 2022): About 61% of people in Bredbury and Woodley 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=E63001360) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 271 homes were sold in Bredbury and Woodley in 2025.
- [Population by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population?place=E63001360) (Census 2021, England and Wales): Bredbury and Woodley had 17,044 usual residents at the census.
- [Deprivation score by council](https://openindex.co.uk/map/deprivation-score-england?place=E63001360) (English Indices of Deprivation 2025): Published for whole councils, so the map colours all of Stockport, where most of this town lies. The outline is Bredbury and Woodley.

## How Bredbury and Woodley compares

Each town against every other town the measure covers.

| Measure | Bredbury and Woodley | Rank | Compared with |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Median sale price | £260,000 | joint 42nd most expensive | 161 towns, North West · 2025 |
| Population | 17,044 | 57th least populated | 161 towns, North West · 2021 |
| People in radon Affected Area squares | 61% | 70th most people in radon Affected Areas | 161 towns, North West · 2022 |
| Gigabit broadband coverage | 95.0% | joint 61st lowest | 161 towns, North West · Jan 2026 |

## What is the population of Bredbury and Woodley?

Bredbury and Woodley had 17,044 usual residents at the census.
Bredbury and Woodley is the 591st least populated of 1,209 in the UK.

## Deprivation in Bredbury and Woodley, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Bredbury and Woodley has no single figure. Of its 12 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood

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

## Neighbourhoods in Bredbury and Woodley

| Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Stockport 005A](https://openindex.co.uk/stockport/neighbourhood/e01005745) | 1,375 | – | 6 | 98.6% |
| [Stockport 005B](https://openindex.co.uk/stockport/neighbourhood/e01005746) | 1,451 | – | 1 | 98.7% |
| [Stockport 005C](https://openindex.co.uk/stockport/neighbourhood/e01005747) | 1,403 | – | 9 | 95.2% |
| [Stockport 005D](https://openindex.co.uk/stockport/neighbourhood/e01005748) | 1,512 | – | 10 | 95.7% |
| [Stockport 009A](https://openindex.co.uk/stockport/neighbourhood/e01005743) | 1,274 | – | 7 | 99.8% |
| [Stockport 009B](https://openindex.co.uk/stockport/neighbourhood/e01005744) | 1,554 | – | 3 | 73.1% |
| [Stockport 009C](https://openindex.co.uk/stockport/neighbourhood/e01005749) | 1,656 | – | 7 | 96.3% |
| [Stockport 009D](https://openindex.co.uk/stockport/neighbourhood/e01005750) | 1,669 | – | 6 | 95.2% |
| [Stockport 009E](https://openindex.co.uk/stockport/neighbourhood/e01005751) | 1,400 | – | 5 | 99.7% |
| [Stockport 012A](https://openindex.co.uk/stockport/neighbourhood/e01005752) | 1,405 | – | 3 | 100.0% |
| [Stockport 012D](https://openindex.co.uk/stockport/neighbourhood/e01005902) | 1,620 | – | 2 | 99.9% |
| [Stockport 012E](https://openindex.co.uk/stockport/neighbourhood/e01005905) | 1,511 | – | 1 | 100.0% |

## Your MP

- [Hazel Grove](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/hazel-grove): Lisa Smart (Liberal Democrat), 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

[Stockport](https://openindex.co.uk/stockport)

## Postcode districts covering Bredbury and Woodley

[SK6](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/sk6)

## Middle areas in Bredbury and Woodley

[Bredbury](https://openindex.co.uk/stockport/bredbury), [Bredbury Green](https://openindex.co.uk/stockport/bredbury-green), [Woodley](https://openindex.co.uk/stockport/woodley)

## Towns near Bredbury and Woodley

[Romiley](https://openindex.co.uk/town/romiley), [Stockport](https://openindex.co.uk/town/stockport), [Hyde](https://openindex.co.uk/town/hyde), [Denton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/denton), [Reddish](https://openindex.co.uk/town/reddish), [Marple](https://openindex.co.uk/town/marple)

## Bredbury and Woodley in brief

Bredbury and Woodley is a town in Stockport, North West.
About 17,558 people lived in Bredbury and Woodley in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £260,000 in 2025 across 271 sales (HM Land Registry).
The median price paid for a home in Bredbury and Woodley was £260,000 in 2025.
Bredbury and Woodley had 17,044 usual residents at the census.
About 61% of people in Bredbury and Woodley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Bredbury and Woodley, 95.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.

## About

- Type: Town
- Code: E63001360
- Constituency: [Hazel Grove †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/hazel-grove)
- Council: [Stockport †](https://openindex.co.uk/stockport)
- Region: [North West](https://openindex.co.uk/north-west)
- Nation: [England](https://openindex.co.uk/england)
- Area: 4.69 km²
- People, mid-2024: 17,558*
- Neighbourhoods: 12
- Output areas: 59

* 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

[Romiley](https://openindex.co.uk/town/romiley), [Stockport](https://openindex.co.uk/town/stockport), [Hyde](https://openindex.co.uk/town/hyde), [Denton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/denton), [Reddish](https://openindex.co.uk/town/reddish), [Marple](https://openindex.co.uk/town/marple)

## Latest updates for Bredbury and Woodley

- 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/E63001360

## How to cite

Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/town/bredbury-and-woodley, or to one figure with its anchor, https://openindex.co.uk/town/bredbury-and-woodley#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. The HTML page: https://openindex.co.uk/town/bredbury-and-woodley