# Failsworth

Town in Oldham, North West.

Failsworth is a town in Oldham, North West. Median sale price £215,000 in 2025. About 20,474 people.

Town. Code E63001254. In: [Towns](https://openindex.co.uk/places/towns) › [Oldham](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham)

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.

## Key figures

- **Median sale price: £215,000** (2025). The median price paid for a home in Failsworth was £215,000 in 2025. Joint 293rd 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/failsworth#f-house-sales-median-price
- **Population: 19,962** (2021). Failsworth had 19,962 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 546th 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/failsworth#f-population
- **People in radon Affected Area squares: 70%** (2022). About 70% of people in Failsworth 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/failsworth#f-radon-affected-share
- **Gigabit broadband coverage: 98.8%** (January 2026). In Failsworth, 98.8% 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/failsworth#f-gigabit-coverage

## On the map

- [Radon Affected Area by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas#place=E63001254) (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.
- [Sales per year by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/house-sales-per-year#place=E63001254) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 249 homes were sold in Failsworth in 2025.
- [Population by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population#place=E63001254) (Census 2021, England and Wales): Failsworth had 19,962 usual residents at the census.
- [Deprivation score by council](https://openindex.co.uk/map/deprivation-score-england#place=E63001254) (English Indices of Deprivation 2025): Published for whole councils, so the map colours all of Oldham, where most of this town lies. The outline is Failsworth.

## How Failsworth compares

Each town against every other town the measure covers.

| Measure | Failsworth | Rank | Compared with |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Median sale price | £215,000 | 73rd cheapest | 161 towns, North West · 2025 |
| Population | 19,962 | 70th least populated | 161 towns, North West · 2021 |
| People in radon Affected Area squares | 70% | joint 64th most people in radon Affected Areas | 161 towns, North West · 2022 |
| Gigabit broadband coverage | 98.8% | joint 5th highest | 161 towns, North West · Jan 2026 |

## 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

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

## Neighbourhoods in Failsworth

| Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Oldham 031A](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham/neighbourhood/e01005362) | 1,357 | – | 4 | 99.8% |
| [Oldham 031B](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham/neighbourhood/e01005364) | 1,584 | – | 7 | 99.7% |
| [Oldham 031C](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham/neighbourhood/e01005368) | 1,516 | – | 1 | 99.5% |
| [Oldham 032A](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham/neighbourhood/e01005363) | 1,772 | – | 3 | 96.4% |
| [Oldham 032B](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham/neighbourhood/e01005369) | 1,965 | – | 2 | 97.9% |
| [Oldham 032C](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham/neighbourhood/e01005370) | 1,578 | – | 1 | 97.0% |
| [Oldham 032D](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham/neighbourhood/e01005371) | 1,472 | – | 2 | 96.9% |
| [Oldham 033A](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham/neighbourhood/e01005365) | 1,377 | – | 6 | 98.7% |
| [Oldham 033B](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham/neighbourhood/e01005366) | 1,556 | – | 2 | 99.2% |
| [Oldham 033C](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham/neighbourhood/e01005367) | 1,420 | – | 8 | 94.8% |
| [Oldham 034A](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham/neighbourhood/e01005372) | 1,277 | – | 3 | 99.8% |
| [Oldham 034B](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham/neighbourhood/e01005373) | 1,193 | – | 7 | 100.0% |
| [Oldham 034C](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham/neighbourhood/e01005374) | 1,486 | – | 4 | 100.0% |
| [Oldham 034D](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham/neighbourhood/e01005375) | 1,502 | – | 8 | 99.3% |

## Your MP

- [Manchester Central](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/manchester-central): Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op)), 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

[Oldham](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham)

## Postcode districts covering Failsworth

[M35](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/m35)

## Middle areas in Failsworth

[Failsworth East](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham/failsworth-east), [Failsworth South](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham/failsworth-south), [Failsworth West](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham/failsworth-west), [Holt Lane End & Bardsley](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham/holt-lane-end-and-bardsley)

## Towns near Failsworth

[Oldham](https://openindex.co.uk/town/oldham), [Chadderton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/chadderton), [Manchester](https://openindex.co.uk/manchester), [Droylsden](https://openindex.co.uk/town/droylsden), [Ashton-under-Lyne](https://openindex.co.uk/town/ashton-under-lyne), [Audenshaw](https://openindex.co.uk/town/audenshaw)

## 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.

## About

- Type: Town
- Code: E63001254
- Constituency: [Manchester Central †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/manchester-central)
- Council: [Oldham †](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham)
- Region: [North West](https://openindex.co.uk/north-west)
- Nation: [England](https://openindex.co.uk/england)
- Area: 3.71 km²
- People, mid-2024: 20,474*
- Neighbourhoods: 14
- Output areas: 67

* 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

[Manchester](https://openindex.co.uk/manchester), [Chadderton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/chadderton), [Oldham](https://openindex.co.uk/town/oldham), [Droylsden](https://openindex.co.uk/town/droylsden), [Ashton-under-Lyne](https://openindex.co.uk/town/ashton-under-lyne), [Audenshaw](https://openindex.co.uk/town/audenshaw)

## Latest updates for Failsworth

- 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/E63001254

## How to cite

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

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Snapshot 2026.10.10. The HTML page: https://openindex.co.uk/town/failsworth