Middleton
TownTown in Rochdale, North West.
Middleton is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Middleton 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 90% of people in Middleton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Middleton compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Middleton?
Middleton had 46,617 usual residents at the census.
Middleton is the 238th most populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Deprivation in Middleton, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Middleton has no single figure. Of its 29 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Middleton
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rochdale 021A | 1,470 | No figure | 4 | 99.9% |
| Rochdale 021B | 1,886 | No figure | 1 | 100.0% |
| Rochdale 021C | 1,907 | No figure | 3 | 98.8% |
| Rochdale 021D | 1,548 | No figure | 3 | 96.7% |
| Rochdale 021E | 1,713 | No figure | 2 | 94.3% |
| Rochdale 021F | 1,251 | No figure | 5 | 79.5% |
| Rochdale 022A | 2,059 | No figure | 2 | 99.7% |
| Rochdale 022B | 1,660 | No figure | 1 | 100.0% |
| Rochdale 022C | 2,026 | No figure | 1 | 94.8% |
| Rochdale 022D | 2,342 | No figure | 1 | 95.9% |
| Rochdale 022E | 2,037 | No figure | 2 | 96.5% |
| Rochdale 022F | 2,157 | No figure | 5 | 97.2% |
| Rochdale 023A | 1,417 | No figure | 4 | 88.3% |
| Rochdale 023B | 1,469 | No figure | 2 | 91.3% |
| Rochdale 023C | 1,270 | No figure | 7 | 100.0% |
| Rochdale 023D | 1,482 | No figure | 2 | 94.3% |
| Rochdale 023E | 1,345 | No figure | 5 | 96.7% |
| Rochdale 023F | 1,534 | No figure | 3 | 96.3% |
| Rochdale 023G | 1,619 | No figure | 2 | 87.8% |
| Rochdale 024A | 1,623 | No figure | 4 | 90.0% |
| Rochdale 024B | 1,311 | No figure | 1 | 68.9% |
| Rochdale 024E | 1,275 | No figure | 2 | 62.0% |
| Rochdale 025A | 1,458 | No figure | 8 | 100.0% |
| Rochdale 025B | 1,158 | No figure | 4 | 94.9% |
| Rochdale 025C | 1,548 | No figure | 2 | 99.2% |
| Rochdale 025D | 1,475 | No figure | 9 | 98.6% |
| Rochdale 025E | 1,250 | No figure | 9 | 92.9% |
| Rochdale 025F | 1,548 | No figure | 10 | 99.8% |
| Rochdale 025G | 1,465 | No figure | 10 | 99.5% |
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 Middleton1
Middle areas in Middleton5
Towns near Middleton6
Middleton in brief
Middleton is a town in Rochdale, North West.
About 50,160 people lived in Middleton in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £240,000 in 2025 across 641 sales (HM Land Registry).
The median price paid for a home in Middleton was £240,000 in 2025.
Middleton had 46,617 usual residents at the census.
About 90% of people in Middleton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Middleton, 93.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.