Prestwich
TownTown in Bury, North West.
Prestwich is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Prestwich 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 59% of people in Prestwich live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Prestwich compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Prestwich?
Prestwich had 31,509 usual residents at the census.
Prestwich is the 359th most populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Deprivation in Prestwich, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Prestwich has no single figure. Of its 19 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Prestwich
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bury 022D | 1,790 | No figure | 5 | 95.2% |
| Bury 023A | 1,494 | No figure | 3 | 97.4% |
| Bury 023B | 1,544 | No figure | 8 | 99.6% |
| Bury 023C | 1,498 | No figure | 5 | 84.8% |
| Bury 023D | 1,576 | No figure | 3 | 92.1% |
| Bury 023E | 1,619 | No figure | 5 | 97.8% |
| Bury 024A | 1,411 | No figure | 7 | 100.0% |
| Bury 024B | 1,675 | No figure | 6 | 96.8% |
| Bury 024C | 1,982 | No figure | 3 | 66.8% |
| Bury 024D | 1,494 | No figure | 8 | 85.9% |
| Bury 025A | 1,533 | No figure | 3 | 96.4% |
| Bury 025B | 1,341 | No figure | 2 | 95.3% |
| Bury 025C | 1,455 | No figure | 7 | 98.0% |
| Bury 025D | 1,357 | No figure | 9 | 100.0% |
| Bury 026A | 1,845 | No figure | 4 | 96.5% |
| Bury 026B | 1,857 | No figure | 6 | 98.1% |
| Bury 026C | 1,952 | No figure | 5 | 99.5% |
| Bury 026D | 1,947 | No figure | 6 | 94.5% |
| Bury 026E | 1,964 | No figure | 2 | 99.1% |
Your MP
- Christian WakefordLabourMP for Bury South
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 Prestwich1
Middle areas in Prestwich4
Towns near Prestwich6
Prestwich in brief
Prestwich is a town in Bury, North West.
About 32,541 people lived in Prestwich in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £304,011 in 2025 across 389 sales (HM Land Registry).
The median price paid for a home in Prestwich was £304,011 in 2025.
Prestwich had 31,509 usual residents at the census.
About 59% of people in Prestwich live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Prestwich, 92.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.