# Old Trafford

Town in Trafford, North West.

Old Trafford is a town in Trafford, North West. Median sale price £333,500 in 2025. About 23,197 people.

Town. Code E63001305. In: [Towns](https://openindex.co.uk/places/towns) › [Trafford](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford)

Old Trafford is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Old Trafford 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: £333,500** (2025). The median price paid for a home in Old Trafford was £333,500 in 2025. Joint 321st most expensive 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/old-trafford#f-house-sales-median-price
- **Population: 21,442** (2021). Old Trafford had 21,442 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 507th most 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/old-trafford#f-population
- **People in radon Affected Area squares: 0%** (2022). About 0% of people in Old Trafford 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/old-trafford#f-radon-affected-share
- **Gigabit broadband coverage: 86.7%** (January 2026). In Old Trafford, 86.7% 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/old-trafford#f-gigabit-coverage

## On the map

- [Radon Affected Area by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas?place=E63001305) (Worked out by Open Index · 2022): About 0% of people in Old Trafford 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=E63001305) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 132 homes were sold in Old Trafford in 2025.
- [Population by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population?place=E63001305) (Census 2021, England and Wales): Old Trafford had 21,442 usual residents at the census.
- [Deprivation score by council](https://openindex.co.uk/map/deprivation-score-england?place=E63001305) (English Indices of Deprivation 2025): Published for whole councils, so the map colours all of Trafford, where most of this town lies. The outline is Old Trafford.

## How Old Trafford compares

Each town against every other town the measure covers.

| Measure | Old Trafford | Rank | Compared with |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Median sale price | £333,500 | 17th most expensive | 161 towns, North West · 2025 |
| Population | 21,442 | 77th least populated | 161 towns, North West · 2021 |
| People in radon Affected Area squares | 0% | joint fewest people in radon Affected Areas | 161 towns, North West · 2022 |
| Gigabit broadband coverage | 86.7% | joint 8th lowest | 161 towns, North West · Jan 2026 |

## What is the population of Old Trafford?

Old Trafford had 21,442 usual residents at the census.
Old Trafford is the 507th most populated of 1,209 in the UK.

## Deprivation in Old Trafford, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Old Trafford has no single figure. Of its 13 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood

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

## Neighbourhoods in Old Trafford

| Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Trafford 001A](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/neighbourhood/e01006109) | 1,147 | – | 1 | 94.4% |
| [Trafford 001B](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/neighbourhood/e01006110) | 1,876 | – | 3 | 100.0% |
| [Trafford 001C](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/neighbourhood/e01006111) | 1,775 | – | 2 | 97.4% |
| [Trafford 001D](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/neighbourhood/e01006112) | 2,049 | – | 2 | 84.6% |
| [Trafford 001F](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/neighbourhood/e01006188) | 1,990 | – | 4 | 82.9% |
| [Trafford 001G](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/neighbourhood/e01034000) | 1,235 | – | 4 | 46.6% |
| [Trafford 001H](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/neighbourhood/e01034001) | 1,647 | – | 2 | 84.5% |
| [Trafford 003B](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/neighbourhood/e01006186) | 2,160 | – | 4 | 76.3% |
| [Trafford 004A](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/neighbourhood/e01006113) | 1,619 | – | 6 | 100.0% |
| [Trafford 004B](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/neighbourhood/e01006114) | 1,693 | – | 4 | 92.6% |
| [Trafford 004C](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/neighbourhood/e01006115) | 1,518 | – | 3 | 83.7% |
| [Trafford 004D](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/neighbourhood/e01006145) | 2,051 | – | 3 | 91.7% |
| [Trafford 004E](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/neighbourhood/e01006146) | 1,791 | – | 7 | 100.0% |

## Your MP

- [Stretford and Urmston](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/stretford-and-urmston): Andrew Western (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

[Trafford](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford)

## Postcode districts covering Old Trafford

[M15](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/m15), [M16](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/m16), [M32](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/m32)

## Middle areas in Old Trafford

[Firswood](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/firswood), [Old Trafford](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford/old-trafford)

## Towns near Old Trafford

[Salford](https://openindex.co.uk/town/salford), [Eccles](https://openindex.co.uk/town/eccles), [Manchester](https://openindex.co.uk/manchester), [Urmston](https://openindex.co.uk/town/urmston), [Stretford](https://openindex.co.uk/town/stretford), [Sale](https://openindex.co.uk/town/sale)

## Old Trafford in brief

Old Trafford is a town in Trafford, North West.
About 23,197 people lived in Old Trafford in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £333,500 in 2025 across 132 sales (HM Land Registry).
The median price paid for a home in Old Trafford was £333,500 in 2025.
Old Trafford had 21,442 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Old Trafford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Old Trafford, 86.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.

## About

- Type: Town
- Code: E63001305
- Constituency: [Stretford and Urmston †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/stretford-and-urmston)
- Council: [Trafford †](https://openindex.co.uk/trafford)
- Region: [North West](https://openindex.co.uk/north-west)
- Nation: [England](https://openindex.co.uk/england)
- Area: 11.40 km²
- People, mid-2024: 23,197*
- Neighbourhoods: 13
- Output areas: 59

* 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

[Manchester](https://openindex.co.uk/manchester), [Stretford](https://openindex.co.uk/town/stretford), [Urmston](https://openindex.co.uk/town/urmston), [Salford](https://openindex.co.uk/town/salford), [Eccles](https://openindex.co.uk/town/eccles), [Sale](https://openindex.co.uk/town/sale)

## Latest updates for Old Trafford

- 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/E63001305

## How to cite

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