Royton
TownTown in Oldham, North West.
Royton is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Royton 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 93% of people in Royton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Royton compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Royton?
Royton had 22,997 usual residents at the census.
Royton is the 479th most populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Deprivation in Royton, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Royton has no single figure. Of its 15 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Royton
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oldham 004A | 1,361 | No figure | 7 | 99.0% |
| Oldham 004B | 1,450 | No figure | 6 | 99.9% |
| Oldham 004C | 1,430 | No figure | 6 | 99.8% |
| Oldham 004D | 1,433 | No figure | 5 | 99.7% |
| Oldham 005B | 1,252 | No figure | 7 | 100.0% |
| Oldham 005C | 1,585 | No figure | 5 | 99.3% |
| Oldham 005D | 1,734 | No figure | 7 | 99.1% |
| Oldham 008A | 1,559 | No figure | 5 | 94.3% |
| Oldham 008B | 1,588 | No figure | 1 | 90.6% |
| Oldham 008C | 1,221 | No figure | 5 | 98.0% |
| Oldham 008D | 1,585 | No figure | 8 | 97.9% |
| Oldham 009A | 1,328 | No figure | 4 | 97.2% |
| Oldham 009B | 1,529 | No figure | 5 | 97.5% |
| Oldham 009C | 1,526 | No figure | 2 | 87.1% |
| Oldham 009D | 1,644 | No figure | 4 | 93.4% |
Your MP
- Jim McMahonLabour (Co-op)MP for Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton
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 Royton1
Middle areas in Royton4
Towns near Royton6
Royton in brief
Royton is a town in Oldham, North West.
About 23,845 people lived in Royton in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £230,000 in 2025 across 373 sales (HM Land Registry).
The median price paid for a home in Royton was £230,000 in 2025.
Royton had 22,997 usual residents at the census.
About 93% of people in Royton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Royton, 96.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.