# Lees

Town in Oldham, North West.

Lees is a town in Oldham, North West. Median sale price £217,500 in 2025. About 12,689 people.

Town. Code E63001194. In: [Towns](https://openindex.co.uk/places/towns) › [Oldham](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham)

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.

## Key figures

- **Median sale price: £217,500** (2025). The median price paid for a home in Lees was £217,500 in 2025. Joint 303rd 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/lees#f-house-sales-median-price
- **Population: 12,641** (2021). Lees had 12,641 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 388th 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/lees#f-population
- **People in radon Affected Area squares: 100%** (2022). About 100% of people in Lees 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/lees#f-radon-affected-share
- **Gigabit broadband coverage: 94.5%** (January 2026). In Lees, 94.5% 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/lees#f-gigabit-coverage

## On the map

- [Radon Affected Area by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas?place=E63001194) (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.
- [Sales per year by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/house-sales-per-year?place=E63001194) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 201 homes were sold in Lees in 2025.
- [Population by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population?place=E63001194) (Census 2021, England and Wales): Lees had 12,641 usual residents at the census.
- [Deprivation score by council](https://openindex.co.uk/map/deprivation-score-england?place=E63001194) (English Indices of Deprivation 2025): Published for whole councils, so the map colours all of Oldham, where most of this town lies. The outline is Lees.

## How Lees compares

Each town against every other town the measure covers.

| Measure | Lees | Rank | Compared with |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Median sale price | £217,500 | 75th cheapest | 161 towns, North West · 2025 |
| Population | 12,641 | 36th least populated | 161 towns, North West · 2021 |
| People in radon Affected Area squares | 100% | joint most people in radon Affected Areas | 161 towns, North West · 2022 |
| Gigabit broadband coverage | 94.5% | joint 52nd lowest | 161 towns, North West · Jan 2026 |

## 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

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

## Neighbourhoods in Lees

| Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Oldham 013D](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham/neighbourhood/e01005417) | 1,554 | – | 7 | 87.7% |
| [Oldham 018A](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham/neighbourhood/e01005387) | 1,473 | – | 4 | 99.7% |
| [Oldham 018B](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham/neighbourhood/e01005388) | 1,339 | – | 4 | 99.7% |
| [Oldham 018C](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham/neighbourhood/e01005389) | 1,767 | – | 1 | 96.4% |
| [Oldham 018D](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham/neighbourhood/e01005418) | 1,411 | – | 9 | 100.0% |
| [Oldham 021B](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham/neighbourhood/e01005413) | 1,591 | – | 9 | 79.7% |
| [Oldham 021C](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham/neighbourhood/e01005419) | 1,451 | – | 6 | 88.3% |
| [Oldham 021D](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham/neighbourhood/e01005420) | 1,615 | – | 4 | 91.6% |
| [Oldham 026E](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham/neighbourhood/e01032556) | 1,502 | – | 4 | 99.5% |

## Your MP

- [Oldham East and Saddleworth](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/oldham-east-and-saddleworth): Debbie Abrahams (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.

## Council

[Oldham](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham)

## Postcode districts covering Lees

[OL4](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ol4)

## Middle areas in Lees

[Lees & Hey](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham/lees-and-hey), [Springhead & Grasscroft](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham/springhead-and-grasscroft)

## Towns near Lees

[Oldham](https://openindex.co.uk/town/oldham), [Uppermill](https://openindex.co.uk/town/uppermill), [Mossley](https://openindex.co.uk/town/mossley), [Royton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/royton), [Ashton-under-Lyne](https://openindex.co.uk/town/ashton-under-lyne), [Shaw](https://openindex.co.uk/town/shaw)

## 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.

## About

- Type: Town
- Code: E63001194
- Constituency: [Oldham East and Saddleworth †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/oldham-east-and-saddleworth)
- Council: [Oldham †](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham)
- Region: [North West](https://openindex.co.uk/north-west)
- Nation: [England](https://openindex.co.uk/england)
- Area: 2.69 km²
- People, mid-2024: 12,689*
- Neighbourhoods: 9
- Output areas: 43

* 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

[Oldham](https://openindex.co.uk/town/oldham), [Uppermill](https://openindex.co.uk/town/uppermill), [Mossley](https://openindex.co.uk/town/mossley), [Royton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/royton), [Ashton-under-Lyne](https://openindex.co.uk/town/ashton-under-lyne), [Shaw](https://openindex.co.uk/town/shaw)

## Latest updates for Lees

- 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/E63001194

## How to cite

Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/town/lees, or to one figure with its anchor, https://openindex.co.uk/town/lees#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/lees