Lees
TownTown in Oldham, North West.
Lees is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Lees 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 Lees live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Lees compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Lees?
Lees had 12,641 usual residents at the census.
Lees is the 388th least populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Deprivation in Lees, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Lees has no single figure. Of its 9 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Lees
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oldham 013D | 1,554 | No figure | 7 | 87.7% |
| Oldham 018A | 1,473 | No figure | 4 | 99.7% |
| Oldham 018B | 1,339 | No figure | 4 | 99.7% |
| Oldham 018C | 1,767 | No figure | 1 | 96.4% |
| Oldham 018D | 1,411 | No figure | 9 | 100.0% |
| Oldham 021B | 1,591 | No figure | 9 | 79.7% |
| Oldham 021C | 1,451 | No figure | 6 | 88.3% |
| Oldham 021D | 1,615 | No figure | 4 | 91.6% |
| Oldham 026E | 1,502 | No figure | 4 | 99.5% |
Your MP
- Debbie AbrahamsLabourMP for Oldham East and Saddleworth
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 Lees1
Middle areas in Lees2
Towns near Lees6
Lees in brief
Lees is a town in Oldham, North West.
About 12,689 people lived in Lees in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £217,500 in 2025 across 201 sales (HM Land Registry).
The median price paid for a home in Lees was £217,500 in 2025.
Lees had 12,641 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Lees live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Lees, 94.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.