Heywood
TownTown in Rochdale, North West.
Heywood is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Heywood 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 100% of people in Heywood live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Heywood compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Heywood?
Heywood had 29,724 usual residents at the census.
Heywood is the 372nd most populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Deprivation in Heywood, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Heywood has no single figure. Of its 19 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Heywood
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rochdale 006C | 1,512 | No figure | 4 | 73.8% |
| Rochdale 018A | 1,891 | No figure | 1 | 99.8% |
| Rochdale 018B | 1,783 | No figure | 1 | 90.4% |
| Rochdale 018C | 1,378 | No figure | 2 | 92.2% |
| Rochdale 018D | 1,642 | No figure | 2 | 93.8% |
| Rochdale 018E | 2,182 | No figure | 4 | 96.3% |
| Rochdale 018F | 1,445 | No figure | 1 | 89.3% |
| Rochdale 019A | 1,094 | No figure | 8 | 100.0% |
| Rochdale 019B | 1,251 | No figure | 5 | 99.2% |
| Rochdale 019C | 1,440 | No figure | 3 | 93.2% |
| Rochdale 019D | 1,554 | No figure | 1 | 100.0% |
| Rochdale 019E | 1,844 | No figure | 2 | 95.0% |
| Rochdale 019F | 1,798 | No figure | 1 | 93.2% |
| Rochdale 020A | 1,372 | No figure | 3 | 99.5% |
| Rochdale 020B | 1,592 | No figure | 4 | 94.6% |
| Rochdale 020C | 1,318 | No figure | 9 | 90.8% |
| Rochdale 020D | 1,546 | No figure | 3 | 95.8% |
| Rochdale 020E | 2,261 | No figure | 5 | 87.9% |
| Rochdale 020F | 2,015 | No figure | 8 | 88.0% |
Your MP
- Mrs Elsie BlundellLabourMP for Heywood and Middleton North
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 Heywood1
Middle areas in Heywood3
Towns near Heywood6
Heywood in brief
Heywood is a town in Rochdale, North West.
About 31,049 people lived in Heywood in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £185,000 in 2025 across 373 sales (HM Land Registry).
The median price paid for a home in Heywood was £185,000 in 2025.
Heywood had 29,724 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Heywood live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Heywood, 94.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.