Denton
TownTown in Tameside, North West.
Denton is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Denton 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 49% of people in Denton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Denton compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Denton?
Denton had 36,005 usual residents at the census.
Denton is the 305th most populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Deprivation in Denton, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Denton has no single figure. Of its 25 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Denton
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manchester 021D | 1,733 | No figure | 1 | 92.5% |
| Tameside 019D | 1,578 | No figure | 3 | 97.8% |
| Tameside 021A | 1,413 | No figure | 8 | 88.3% |
| Tameside 021B | 1,720 | No figure | 2 | 98.5% |
| Tameside 021C | 1,692 | No figure | 2 | 96.0% |
| Tameside 021D | 1,546 | No figure | 3 | 95.9% |
| Tameside 024A | 1,554 | No figure | 8 | 99.7% |
| Tameside 024B | 1,518 | No figure | 8 | 100.0% |
| Tameside 024C | 1,599 | No figure | 9 | 96.6% |
| Tameside 024D | 1,373 | No figure | 7 | 95.4% |
| Tameside 024E | 1,496 | No figure | 5 | 97.9% |
| Tameside 025A | 1,354 | No figure | 4 | 96.4% |
| Tameside 025B | 1,245 | No figure | 4 | 99.8% |
| Tameside 025C | 1,206 | No figure | 8 | 99.6% |
| Tameside 025D | 1,210 | No figure | 2 | 96.1% |
| Tameside 026A | 1,367 | No figure | 7 | 92.9% |
| Tameside 026B | 1,482 | No figure | 2 | 98.9% |
| Tameside 026C | 1,450 | No figure | 6 | 99.7% |
| Tameside 026D | 1,335 | No figure | 2 | 100.0% |
| Tameside 029A | 1,584 | No figure | 3 | 98.2% |
| Tameside 029B | 1,449 | No figure | 2 | 99.1% |
| Tameside 029C | 1,647 | No figure | 2 | 93.3% |
| Tameside 029D | 1,326 | No figure | 3 | 97.2% |
| Tameside 029E | 1,507 | No figure | 7 | 96.9% |
| Tameside 029F | 1,604 | No figure | 2 | 98.3% |
Your MP
- Hannah SpencerGreen PartyMP for Gorton and Denton
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 Denton2
Middle areas in Denton5
Towns near Denton6
Denton in brief
Denton is a town in Tameside, North West.
About 37,721 people lived in Denton in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £225,000 in 2025 across 498 sales (HM Land Registry).
The median price paid for a home in Denton was £225,000 in 2025.
Denton had 36,005 usual residents at the census.
About 49% of people in Denton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Denton, 97.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.