# Hadfield

Town in High Peak and Tameside, East Midlands.

Hadfield is a town in High Peak and Tameside, East Midlands. Median sale price £216,250 in 2025. About 16,615 people.

Town. Code E63001313. In: [Towns](https://openindex.co.uk/places/towns) › [High Peak](https://openindex.co.uk/high-peak)

Hadfield is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Hadfield 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: £216,250** (2025). The median price paid for a home in Hadfield was £216,250 in 2025. Joint 300th 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/hadfield#f-house-sales-median-price
- **Population: 16,271** (2021). Hadfield had 16,271 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 563rd least 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/hadfield#f-population
- **People in radon Affected Area squares: 59%** (2022). About 59% of people in Hadfield 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/hadfield#f-radon-affected-share
- **Gigabit broadband coverage: 96.2%** (January 2026). In Hadfield, 96.2% 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/hadfield#f-gigabit-coverage

## On the map

- [Radon Affected Area by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas?place=E63001313) (Worked out by Open Index · 2022): About 59% of people in Hadfield 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=E63001313) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 232 homes were sold in Hadfield in 2025.
- [Population by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population?place=E63001313) (Census 2021, England and Wales): Hadfield had 16,271 usual residents at the census.
- [Deprivation score by council](https://openindex.co.uk/map/deprivation-score-england?place=E63001313) (English Indices of Deprivation 2025): Published for whole councils, so the map colours all of High Peak, where most of this town lies. The outline is Hadfield.

## How Hadfield compares

Each town against every other town the measure covers.

| Measure | Hadfield | Rank | Compared with |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Median sale price | £216,250 | 37th cheapest | 105 towns, East Midlands · 2025 |
| Population | 16,271 | 53rd most populated | 105 towns, East Midlands · 2021 |
| People in radon Affected Area squares | 59% | 52nd fewest people in radon Affected Areas | 105 towns, East Midlands · 2022 |
| Gigabit broadband coverage | 96.2% | joint 51st highest | 105 towns, East Midlands · Jan 2026 |

## What is the population of Hadfield?

Hadfield had 16,271 usual residents at the census.
Hadfield is the 563rd least populated of 1,209 in the UK.

## Deprivation in Hadfield, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Hadfield has no single figure. Of its 10 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood

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

## Neighbourhoods in Hadfield

| Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [High Peak 001A](https://openindex.co.uk/high-peak/neighbourhood/e01019733) | 1,475 | 68.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 95.9% |
| [High Peak 001B](https://openindex.co.uk/high-peak/neighbourhood/e01019752) | 1,340 | 82.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| [High Peak 001D](https://openindex.co.uk/high-peak/neighbourhood/e01019763) | 2,223 | 60.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 94.4% |
| [High Peak 002C](https://openindex.co.uk/high-peak/neighbourhood/e01019730) | 1,896 | 82.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.0% |
| [High Peak 002D](https://openindex.co.uk/high-peak/neighbourhood/e01019731) | 1,242 | 43.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| [High Peak 002E](https://openindex.co.uk/high-peak/neighbourhood/e01019732) | 1,482 | 54.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.4% |
| [Tameside 023A](https://openindex.co.uk/tameside/neighbourhood/e01006047) | 1,326 | – | 4 | 99.6% |
| [Tameside 023B](https://openindex.co.uk/tameside/neighbourhood/e01006048) | 1,595 | – | 6 | 89.9% |
| [Tameside 023C](https://openindex.co.uk/tameside/neighbourhood/e01006049) | 1,545 | – | 4 | 91.9% |
| [Tameside 027D](https://openindex.co.uk/tameside/neighbourhood/e01006052) | 1,580 | – | 1 | 97.7% |

## Your MP

- [High Peak](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/high-peak): Jon Pearce (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.

## Councils Hadfield sits in

[High Peak](https://openindex.co.uk/high-peak), [Tameside](https://openindex.co.uk/tameside)

## Postcode districts covering Hadfield

[SK13](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/sk13), [SK14](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/sk14)

## Middle areas in Hadfield

[Hadfield East & Tintwistle](https://openindex.co.uk/high-peak/hadfield-east-and-tintwistle), [Hadfield West & Gamesley](https://openindex.co.uk/high-peak/hadfield-west-and-gamesley), [Mottram, Hollingworth & Broadbottom](https://openindex.co.uk/tameside/mottram-hollingworth-and-broadbottom)

## Towns near Hadfield

[Glossop](https://openindex.co.uk/town/glossop), [Stalybridge](https://openindex.co.uk/town/stalybridge), [Hyde](https://openindex.co.uk/town/hyde), [Dukinfield](https://openindex.co.uk/town/dukinfield), [Romiley](https://openindex.co.uk/town/romiley), [Ashton-under-Lyne](https://openindex.co.uk/town/ashton-under-lyne)

## Hadfield in brief

Hadfield is a town in High Peak and Tameside, East Midlands.
About 16,615 people lived in Hadfield in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £216,250 in 2025 across 232 sales (HM Land Registry).
The median price paid for a home in Hadfield was £216,250 in 2025.
Hadfield had 16,271 usual residents at the census.
About 59% of people in Hadfield live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Hadfield, 96.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.

## About

- Type: Town
- Code: E63001313
- Constituency: [High Peak †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/high-peak)
- Council: [High Peak †](https://openindex.co.uk/high-peak)
- Region: [East Midlands](https://openindex.co.uk/east-midlands)
- Nation: [England](https://openindex.co.uk/england)
- Area: 4.60 km²
- People, mid-2024: 16,615*
- Neighbourhoods: 10
- Output areas: 56

* 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

[Glossop](https://openindex.co.uk/town/glossop), [Stalybridge](https://openindex.co.uk/town/stalybridge), [Hyde](https://openindex.co.uk/town/hyde), [Dukinfield](https://openindex.co.uk/town/dukinfield), [Romiley](https://openindex.co.uk/town/romiley), [Ashton-under-Lyne](https://openindex.co.uk/town/ashton-under-lyne)

## Latest updates for Hadfield

- Dental practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026.
- Schools updated: Ofsted · Oct 2026.
- GP practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026.
- Schools updated: Department for Education · Oct 2026.

The same figures as JSON: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/places/E63001313

## How to cite

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

Open Index's own text and the figures it works out are licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Source data keeps its publishers' licences, named with each figure. Give each figure's period and source with it.

Snapshot 2026.10.8, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23508850. The HTML page: https://openindex.co.uk/town/hadfield