Droylsden
TownTown in Tameside, North West.
Droylsden is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Droylsden 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 26% of people in Droylsden live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Droylsden compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Droylsden?
Droylsden had 23,916 usual residents at the census.
Droylsden is the 461st most populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Deprivation in Droylsden, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Droylsden has no single figure. Of its 15 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Droylsden
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tameside 010A | 1,350 | No figure | 5 | 88.7% |
| Tameside 010B | 1,372 | No figure | 9 | 87.3% |
| Tameside 010C | 1,948 | No figure | 4 | 95.4% |
| Tameside 010D | 1,536 | No figure | 4 | 93.4% |
| Tameside 010E | 1,787 | No figure | 2 | 93.2% |
| Tameside 011A | 1,507 | No figure | 4 | 99.8% |
| Tameside 011B | 2,190 | No figure | 3 | 92.3% |
| Tameside 011C | 1,370 | No figure | 4 | 99.5% |
| Tameside 011D | 1,524 | No figure | 6 | 98.9% |
| Tameside 011E | 1,395 | No figure | 1 | 95.4% |
| Tameside 011F | 1,551 | No figure | 4 | 99.1% |
| Tameside 012A | 1,882 | No figure | 3 | 96.5% |
| Tameside 012B | 1,546 | No figure | 3 | 94.5% |
| Tameside 012C | 1,530 | No figure | 4 | 99.4% |
| Tameside 012D | 1,426 | No figure | 5 | 99.2% |
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 Droylsden1
Middle areas in Droylsden3
Towns near Droylsden6
Droylsden in brief
Droylsden is a town in Tameside, North West.
About 25,080 people lived in Droylsden in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £222,000 in 2025 across 249 sales (HM Land Registry).
The median price paid for a home in Droylsden was £222,000 in 2025.
Droylsden had 23,916 usual residents at the census.
About 26% of people in Droylsden live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Droylsden, 95.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.