Eccles
TownTown in Salford, North West.
Eccles is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Eccles 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.
Gigabit coverage by town
Connected Nations (Ofcom) · January 2026
In Eccles, 96.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How Eccles compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Eccles?
Eccles had 41,116 usual residents at the census.
Eccles is the 270th most populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Deprivation in Eccles, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Eccles has no single figure. Of its 24 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- 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 Eccles
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salford 019A | 1,460 | No figure | 1 | 100.0% |
| Salford 019B | 1,433 | No figure | 3 | 99.7% |
| Salford 019C | 1,349 | No figure | 3 | 98.0% |
| Salford 019D | 1,791 | No figure | 7 | 99.9% |
| Salford 019E | 1,469 | No figure | 1 | 99.4% |
| Salford 020A | 1,577 | No figure | 1 | 91.9% |
| Salford 020B | 2,452 | No figure | 4 | 89.3% |
| Salford 020C | 1,532 | No figure | 3 | 99.8% |
| Salford 020D | 1,589 | No figure | 10 | 99.0% |
| Salford 020E | 1,552 | No figure | 4 | 98.1% |
| Salford 020F | 1,598 | No figure | 8 | 97.5% |
| Salford 020G | 1,453 | No figure | 5 | 99.0% |
| Salford 025A | 1,535 | No figure | 1 | 97.1% |
| Salford 025B | 1,668 | No figure | 4 | 99.3% |
| Salford 025C | 1,567 | No figure | 1 | 99.8% |
| Salford 025D | 1,207 | No figure | 2 | 99.7% |
| Salford 026A | 1,903 | No figure | 1 | 92.4% |
| Salford 026B | 2,036 | No figure | 4 | 99.5% |
| Salford 026C | 1,740 | No figure | 1 | 99.7% |
| Salford 026D | 1,674 | No figure | 1 | 99.0% |
| Salford 027A | 1,809 | No figure | 2 | 97.7% |
| Salford 027B | 1,651 | No figure | 3 | 99.7% |
| Salford 027C | 1,658 | No figure | 2 | 99.9% |
| Salford 027D | 2,211 | No figure | 2 | 91.1% |
Your MP
- Michael WheelerLabourMP for Worsley and Eccles
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 Eccles1
Middle areas in Eccles5
Towns near Eccles6
Eccles in brief
Eccles is a town in Salford, North West.
About 42,949 people lived in Eccles in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £243,750 in 2025 across 488 sales (HM Land Registry).
The median price paid for a home in Eccles was £243,750 in 2025.
Eccles had 41,116 usual residents at the census.
In Eccles, 96.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Eccles, 5.9% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.