Failsworth
TownTown in Oldham, North West.
Failsworth is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Failsworth 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 70% of people in Failsworth live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Failsworth compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Failsworth?
Failsworth had 19,962 usual residents at the census.
Failsworth is the 546th most populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Deprivation in Failsworth, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Failsworth has no single figure. Of its 14 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Failsworth
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oldham 031A | 1,357 | No figure | 4 | 99.8% |
| Oldham 031B | 1,584 | No figure | 7 | 99.7% |
| Oldham 031C | 1,516 | No figure | 1 | 99.5% |
| Oldham 032A | 1,772 | No figure | 3 | 96.4% |
| Oldham 032B | 1,965 | No figure | 2 | 97.9% |
| Oldham 032C | 1,578 | No figure | 1 | 97.0% |
| Oldham 032D | 1,472 | No figure | 2 | 96.9% |
| Oldham 033A | 1,377 | No figure | 6 | 98.7% |
| Oldham 033B | 1,556 | No figure | 2 | 99.2% |
| Oldham 033C | 1,420 | No figure | 8 | 94.8% |
| Oldham 034A | 1,277 | No figure | 3 | 99.8% |
| Oldham 034B | 1,193 | No figure | 7 | 100.0% |
| Oldham 034C | 1,486 | No figure | 4 | 100.0% |
| Oldham 034D | 1,502 | No figure | 8 | 99.3% |
Your MP
- Lucy PowellLabour (Co-op)MP for Manchester Central
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 Failsworth1
Middle areas in Failsworth4
Towns near Failsworth6
Failsworth in brief
Failsworth is a town in Oldham, North West.
About 20,474 people lived in Failsworth in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £215,000 in 2025 across 249 sales (HM Land Registry).
The median price paid for a home in Failsworth was £215,000 in 2025.
Failsworth had 19,962 usual residents at the census.
About 70% of people in Failsworth live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Failsworth, 98.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.