Irlam
TownTown in Salford, North West.
Irlam is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Irlam 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 Irlam live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Irlam compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Irlam?
Irlam had 19,714 usual residents at the census.
Irlam is the 553rd most populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Deprivation in Irlam, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Irlam has no single figure. Of its 13 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Irlam
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salford 029A | 1,516 | No figure | 1 | 100.0% |
| Salford 029B | 1,360 | No figure | 1 | 94.3% |
| Salford 029C | 1,365 | No figure | 2 | 100.0% |
| Salford 029D | 1,208 | No figure | 6 | 98.2% |
| Salford 029E | 1,369 | No figure | 5 | 98.2% |
| Salford 029F | 1,517 | No figure | 7 | 99.8% |
| Salford 029G | 1,363 | No figure | 8 | 100.0% |
| Salford 030A | 1,446 | No figure | 2 | 100.0% |
| Salford 030B | 1,480 | No figure | 5 | 97.1% |
| Salford 030C | 2,080 | No figure | 4 | 95.8% |
| Salford 030D | 1,231 | No figure | 2 | 97.7% |
| Salford 030E | 2,550 | No figure | 6 | 96.4% |
| Salford 030F | 1,770 | No figure | 2 | 94.2% |
Your MP
- Michael WheelerLabourMP for Worsley and Eccles
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 Irlam1
Middle areas in Irlam2
Towns near Irlam6
Irlam in brief
Irlam is a town in Salford, North West.
About 19,873 people lived in Irlam in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £230,000 in 2025 across 293 sales (HM Land Registry).
The median price paid for a home in Irlam was £230,000 in 2025.
Irlam had 19,714 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Irlam live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Irlam, 98.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.