# Dukinfield

Town in Tameside, North West.

Dukinfield is a town in Tameside, North West. Median sale price £210,000 in 2025. About 21,389 people.

Town. Code E63001297. In: [Towns](https://openindex.co.uk/places/towns) › [Tameside](https://openindex.co.uk/tameside)

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.

## Key figures

- **Median sale price: £210,000** (2025). The median price paid for a home in Dukinfield was £210,000 in 2025. Joint 275th 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/dukinfield#f-house-sales-median-price
- **Population: 21,151** (2021). Dukinfield had 21,151 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 519th most 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/dukinfield#f-population
- **People in radon Affected Area squares: 100%** (2022). About 100% of people in Dukinfield 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/dukinfield#f-radon-affected-share
- **Gigabit broadband coverage: 97.4%** (January 2026). In Dukinfield, 97.4% 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/dukinfield#f-gigabit-coverage

## On the map

- [Radon Affected Area by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas#place=E63001297) (Worked out by Open Index · 2022): About 100% of people in Dukinfield 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=E63001297) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 238 homes were sold in Dukinfield in 2025.
- [Population by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population#place=E63001297) (Census 2021, England and Wales): Dukinfield had 21,151 usual residents at the census.
- [Deprivation score by council](https://openindex.co.uk/map/deprivation-score-england#place=E63001297) (English Indices of Deprivation 2025): Published for whole councils, so the map colours all of Tameside, where most of this town lies. The outline is Dukinfield.

## How Dukinfield compares

Each town against every other town the measure covers.

| Measure | Dukinfield | Rank | Compared with |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Median sale price | £210,000 | joint 67th cheapest | 161 towns, North West · 2025 |
| Population | 21,151 | 75th least populated | 161 towns, North West · 2021 |
| People in radon Affected Area squares | 100% | joint most people in radon Affected Areas | 161 towns, North West · 2022 |
| Gigabit broadband coverage | 97.4% | joint 39th highest | 161 towns, North West · Jan 2026 |

## 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

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

## Neighbourhoods in Dukinfield

| Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Tameside 016A](https://openindex.co.uk/tameside/neighbourhood/e01006009) | 1,329 | – | 3 | 99.6% |
| [Tameside 016B](https://openindex.co.uk/tameside/neighbourhood/e01006017) | 1,398 | – | 10 | 96.9% |
| [Tameside 016C](https://openindex.co.uk/tameside/neighbourhood/e01006018) | 1,316 | – | 9 | 99.8% |
| [Tameside 016D](https://openindex.co.uk/tameside/neighbourhood/e01006021) | 1,366 | – | 5 | 99.7% |
| [Tameside 017A](https://openindex.co.uk/tameside/neighbourhood/e01006008) | 1,386 | – | 4 | 91.9% |
| [Tameside 017B](https://openindex.co.uk/tameside/neighbourhood/e01006010) | 1,403 | – | 1 | 91.3% |
| [Tameside 017C](https://openindex.co.uk/tameside/neighbourhood/e01006012) | 1,961 | – | 4 | 96.8% |
| [Tameside 017D](https://openindex.co.uk/tameside/neighbourhood/e01006015) | 1,347 | – | 9 | 99.8% |
| [Tameside 017E](https://openindex.co.uk/tameside/neighbourhood/e01006016) | 1,947 | – | 1 | 96.0% |
| [Tameside 018A](https://openindex.co.uk/tameside/neighbourhood/e01006011) | 1,708 | – | 1 | 99.9% |
| [Tameside 018B](https://openindex.co.uk/tameside/neighbourhood/e01006013) | 1,307 | – | 5 | 99.8% |
| [Tameside 018C](https://openindex.co.uk/tameside/neighbourhood/e01006014) | 1,282 | – | 3 | 99.4% |
| [Tameside 018D](https://openindex.co.uk/tameside/neighbourhood/e01006019) | 1,503 | – | 1 | 97.2% |
| [Tameside 018E](https://openindex.co.uk/tameside/neighbourhood/e01006020) | 1,637 | – | 3 | 99.9% |

## Your MP

- [Ashton-under-Lyne](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/ashton-under-lyne): Angela Rayner (Labour), 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

[Tameside](https://openindex.co.uk/tameside)

## Postcode districts covering Dukinfield

[SK15](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/sk15), [SK16](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/sk16)

## Middle areas in Dukinfield

[Dukinfield East & Hough Hill](https://openindex.co.uk/tameside/dukinfield-east-and-hough-hill), [Dukinfield West](https://openindex.co.uk/tameside/dukinfield-west), [Newtonmoor](https://openindex.co.uk/tameside/newtonmoor)

## Towns near Dukinfield

[Ashton-under-Lyne](https://openindex.co.uk/town/ashton-under-lyne), [Stalybridge](https://openindex.co.uk/town/stalybridge), [Hyde](https://openindex.co.uk/town/hyde), [Audenshaw](https://openindex.co.uk/town/audenshaw), [Denton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/denton), [Droylsden](https://openindex.co.uk/town/droylsden)

## 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.

## About

- Type: Town
- Code: E63001297
- Constituency: [Ashton-under-Lyne †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/ashton-under-lyne)
- Council: [Tameside †](https://openindex.co.uk/tameside)
- Region: [North West](https://openindex.co.uk/north-west)
- Nation: [England](https://openindex.co.uk/england)
- Area: 5.30 km²
- People, mid-2024: 21,389*
- Neighbourhoods: 14
- Output areas: 71

* 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

[Hyde](https://openindex.co.uk/town/hyde), [Stalybridge](https://openindex.co.uk/town/stalybridge), [Ashton-under-Lyne](https://openindex.co.uk/town/ashton-under-lyne), [Audenshaw](https://openindex.co.uk/town/audenshaw), [Denton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/denton), [Droylsden](https://openindex.co.uk/town/droylsden)

## Latest updates for Dukinfield

- 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/E63001297

## How to cite

Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/town/dukinfield, or to one figure with its anchor, https://openindex.co.uk/town/dukinfield#f-house-sales-median-price.

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