Hale
TownTown in Trafford, North West.
Hale is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Hale 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 0% of people in Hale live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Hale compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Hale?
Hale had 16,716 usual residents at the census.
Hale is the 580th least populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Deprivation in Hale, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Hale has no single figure. Of its 10 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 8 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Hale
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trafford 026A | 1,279 | No figure | 10 | 96.9% |
| Trafford 026B | 1,742 | No figure | 10 | 96.3% |
| Trafford 026C | 1,630 | No figure | 9 | 100.0% |
| Trafford 026D | 1,805 | No figure | 10 | 79.7% |
| Trafford 026E | 1,697 | No figure | 10 | 99.5% |
| Trafford 028A | 1,493 | No figure | 10 | 83.8% |
| Trafford 028B | 1,767 | No figure | 10 | 75.7% |
| Trafford 028C | 1,703 | No figure | 10 | 77.5% |
| Trafford 028D | 1,421 | No figure | 10 | 69.7% |
| Trafford 028E | 1,893 | No figure | 7 | 91.3% |
Your MP
- Mr Connor RandLabourMP for Altrincham and Sale West
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 Hale1
Middle areas in Hale2
Towns near Hale6
Hale in brief
Hale is a town in Trafford, North West.
About 16,615 people lived in Hale in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £700,000 in 2025 across 268 sales (HM Land Registry).
The median price paid for a home in Hale was £700,000 in 2025.
Hale had 16,716 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Hale live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Hale, 87.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.