Shaw
TownTown in Oldham, North West.
Shaw is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Shaw 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.
Gigabit coverage by town
Connected Nations (Ofcom) · January 2026
In Shaw, 97.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How Shaw compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Shaw?
Shaw had 18,249 usual residents at the census.
Shaw is the 589th most populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Deprivation in Shaw, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Shaw 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: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Shaw
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oldham 001A | 1,428 | No figure | 9 | 98.9% |
| Oldham 001B | 1,568 | No figure | 3 | 99.9% |
| Oldham 001C | 1,564 | No figure | 7 | 95.1% |
| Oldham 001D | 1,380 | No figure | 3 | 99.2% |
| Oldham 002A | 1,527 | No figure | 2 | 96.0% |
| Oldham 002B | 1,329 | No figure | 9 | 99.8% |
| Oldham 002C | 1,397 | No figure | 3 | 99.4% |
| Oldham 002D | 1,425 | No figure | 2 | 97.9% |
| Oldham 003A | 1,671 | No figure | 8 | 99.9% |
| Oldham 003B | 1,314 | No figure | 8 | 96.0% |
| Oldham 003C | 1,406 | No figure | 4 | 99.2% |
| Oldham 003D | 1,647 | No figure | 1 | 90.9% |
| Oldham 005A | 1,459 | No figure | 2 | 98.9% |
Your MP
- Debbie AbrahamsLabourMP for Oldham East and Saddleworth
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 Shaw1
Middle areas in Shaw3
Towns near Shaw6
Shaw in brief
Shaw is a town in Oldham, North West.
About 18,387 people lived in Shaw in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £210,000 in 2025 across 257 sales (HM Land Registry).
The median price paid for a home in Shaw was £210,000 in 2025.
Shaw had 18,249 usual residents at the census.
In Shaw, 97.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Shaw, 4.4% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.