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Dukinfield

Town

Town in Tameside, North West.

Dukinfield is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Dukinfield 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 100% of people in Dukinfield live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Median sale price
£210,000
Joint 275th cheapest of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
21,151
519th most populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
100%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
97.4%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026

How Dukinfield compares

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

DukinfieldMiddle
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. Dukinfield is £210,000.
£210,000joint 67th cheapest
Population161 towns, North West · 2021
Population: every town in North West161 areas from 7,551 to 506,564. The middle area is 22,886. Dukinfield is 21,151.
21,15175th 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%. Dukinfield is 100.0%.
100%joint most 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%. Dukinfield is 97.4%.
97.4%joint 39th highest

What is the population of Dukinfield?

Dukinfield had 21,151 usual residents at the census.

Dukinfield is the 519th most populated of 1,209 in the UK.

Deprivation in Dukinfield, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Dukinfield has no single figure. Of its 14 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood

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

Neighbourhoods in Dukinfield

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Tameside 016A1,329No figure399.6%
Tameside 016B1,398No figure1096.9%
Tameside 016C1,316No figure999.8%
Tameside 016D1,366No figure599.7%
Tameside 017A1,386No figure491.9%
Tameside 017B1,403No figure191.3%
Tameside 017C1,961No figure496.8%
Tameside 017D1,347No figure999.8%
Tameside 017E1,947No figure196.0%
Tameside 018A1,708No figure199.9%
Tameside 018B1,307No figure599.8%
Tameside 018C1,282No figure399.4%
Tameside 018D1,503No figure197.2%
Tameside 018E1,637No figure399.9%

Your MP

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 Dukinfield2

Middle areas in Dukinfield3

Towns near Dukinfield6

Dukinfield in brief

Dukinfield is a town in Tameside, North West.

About 21,389 people lived in Dukinfield in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £210,000 in 2025 across 238 sales (HM Land Registry).

The median price paid for a home in Dukinfield was £210,000 in 2025.

Dukinfield had 21,151 usual residents at the census.

About 100% of people in Dukinfield live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Dukinfield, 97.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.