Marple
TownTown in Stockport, North West.
Marple is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Marple 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 42% of people in Marple live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Marple compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Marple?
Marple had 12,963 usual residents at the census.
Marple is the 406th least populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Deprivation in Marple, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Marple has no single figure. Of its 9 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Marple
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stockport 017C | 1,519 | No figure | 10 | 91.1% |
| Stockport 020A | 1,749 | No figure | 3 | 94.3% |
| Stockport 020B | 1,318 | No figure | 5 | 98.8% |
| Stockport 020C | 1,276 | No figure | 10 | 96.8% |
| Stockport 020D | 1,435 | No figure | 10 | 95.1% |
| Stockport 020E | 1,491 | No figure | 7 | 85.0% |
| Stockport 029B | 1,614 | No figure | 4 | 95.0% |
| Stockport 029C | 1,330 | No figure | 9 | 94.9% |
| Stockport 029D | 1,495 | No figure | 8 | 86.1% |
Your MP
- Lisa SmartLiberal DemocratMP for Hazel Grove
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 Marple1
Middle areas in Marple2
Towns near Marple6
Marple in brief
Marple is a town in Stockport, North West.
About 13,258 people lived in Marple in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £337,500 in 2025 across 215 sales (HM Land Registry).
The median price paid for a home in Marple was £337,500 in 2025.
Marple had 12,963 usual residents at the census.
About 42% of people in Marple live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Marple, 93.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.