Mossley
TownTown in Tameside, North West.
Mossley is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Mossley 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 Mossley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Mossley compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Mossley?
Mossley had 11,416 usual residents at the census.
Mossley is the 318th least populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Deprivation in Mossley, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Mossley has no single figure. Of its 7 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Mossley
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tameside 001A | 1,947 | No figure | 7 | 68.7% |
| Tameside 001B | 1,807 | No figure | 3 | 85.5% |
| Tameside 001C | 1,505 | No figure | 6 | 97.4% |
| Tameside 001D | 1,529 | No figure | 6 | 90.8% |
| Tameside 001E | 2,078 | No figure | 4 | 81.9% |
| Tameside 001F | 1,447 | No figure | 5 | 94.4% |
| Tameside 003A | 1,250 | No figure | 1 | 97.1% |
Your MP
- Jonathan ReynoldsLabour (Co-op)MP for Stalybridge and Hyde
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 Mossley1
Middle areas in Mossley1
Towns near Mossley6
Mossley in brief
Mossley is a town in Tameside, North West.
About 11,462 people lived in Mossley in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £200,000 in 2025 across 209 sales (HM Land Registry).
The median price paid for a home in Mossley was £200,000 in 2025.
Mossley had 11,416 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Mossley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Mossley, 86.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.