# Shaw

Town in Oldham, North West.

Shaw is a town in Oldham, North West. Median sale price £210,000 in 2025. About 18,387 people.

Town. Code E63001126. In: [Towns](https://openindex.co.uk/places/towns) › [Oldham](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham)

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.

## Key figures

- **Median sale price: £210,000** (2025). The median price paid for a home in Shaw was £210,000 in 2025. Joint 275th cheapest 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/shaw#f-house-sales-median-price
- **Population: 18,249** (2021). Shaw had 18,249 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 589th 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/shaw#f-population
- **People in radon Affected Area squares: 73%** (2022). About 73% of people in Shaw 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/shaw#f-radon-affected-share
- **Gigabit broadband coverage: 97.8%** (January 2026). In Shaw, 97.8% 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/shaw#f-gigabit-coverage

## On the map

- [Radon Affected Area by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas?place=E63001126) (Worked out by Open Index · 2022): About 73% of people in Shaw 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=E63001126) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 257 homes were sold in Shaw in 2025.
- [Population by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population?place=E63001126) (Census 2021, England and Wales): Shaw had 18,249 usual residents at the census.
- [Deprivation score by council](https://openindex.co.uk/map/deprivation-score-england?place=E63001126) (English Indices of Deprivation 2025): Published for whole councils, so the map colours all of Oldham, where most of this town lies. The outline is Shaw.

## How Shaw compares

Each town against every other town the measure covers.

| Measure | Shaw | Rank | Compared with |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Median sale price | £210,000 | joint 67th cheapest | 161 towns, North West · 2025 |
| Population | 18,249 | 62nd least populated | 161 towns, North West · 2021 |
| People in radon Affected Area squares | 73% | 61st most people in radon Affected Areas | 161 towns, North West · 2022 |
| Gigabit broadband coverage | 97.8% | joint 32nd highest | 161 towns, North West · Jan 2026 |

## 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

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

## Neighbourhoods in Shaw

| Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Oldham 001A](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham/neighbourhood/e01005357) | 1,428 | – | 9 | 98.9% |
| [Oldham 001B](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham/neighbourhood/e01005358) | 1,568 | – | 3 | 99.9% |
| [Oldham 001C](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham/neighbourhood/e01005359) | 1,564 | – | 7 | 95.1% |
| [Oldham 001D](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham/neighbourhood/e01005360) | 1,380 | – | 3 | 99.2% |
| [Oldham 002A](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham/neighbourhood/e01005441) | 1,527 | – | 2 | 96.0% |
| [Oldham 002B](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham/neighbourhood/e01005442) | 1,329 | – | 9 | 99.8% |
| [Oldham 002C](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham/neighbourhood/e01005444) | 1,397 | – | 3 | 99.4% |
| [Oldham 002D](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham/neighbourhood/e01005445) | 1,425 | – | 2 | 97.9% |
| [Oldham 003A](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham/neighbourhood/e01005361) | 1,671 | – | 8 | 99.9% |
| [Oldham 003B](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham/neighbourhood/e01005443) | 1,314 | – | 8 | 96.0% |
| [Oldham 003C](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham/neighbourhood/e01005446) | 1,406 | – | 4 | 99.2% |
| [Oldham 003D](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham/neighbourhood/e01005447) | 1,647 | – | 1 | 90.9% |
| [Oldham 005A](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham/neighbourhood/e01005355) | 1,459 | – | 2 | 98.9% |

## Your MP

- [Oldham East and Saddleworth](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/oldham-east-and-saddleworth): Debbie Abrahams (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

[Oldham](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham)

## Postcode districts covering Shaw

[OL2](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/ol2)

## Middle areas in Shaw

[Clough & Shaw Side](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham/clough-and-shaw-side), [Shaw & Crompton](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham/shaw-and-crompton), [Wood End](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham/wood-end)

## Towns near Shaw

[Royton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/royton), [Oldham](https://openindex.co.uk/town/oldham), [Rochdale](https://openindex.co.uk/town/rochdale), [Milnrow](https://openindex.co.uk/town/milnrow), [Lees](https://openindex.co.uk/town/lees), [Chadderton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/chadderton)

## 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.
About 73% of people in Shaw live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Shaw, 97.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.

## About

- Type: Town
- Code: E63001126
- Constituency: [Oldham East and Saddleworth †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/oldham-east-and-saddleworth)
- Council: [Oldham †](https://openindex.co.uk/oldham)
- Region: [North West](https://openindex.co.uk/north-west)
- Nation: [England](https://openindex.co.uk/england)
- Area: 4.02 km²
- People, mid-2024: 18,387*
- Neighbourhoods: 13
- Output areas: 65

* 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

[Royton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/royton), [Oldham](https://openindex.co.uk/town/oldham), [Rochdale](https://openindex.co.uk/town/rochdale), [Milnrow](https://openindex.co.uk/town/milnrow), [Lees](https://openindex.co.uk/town/lees), [Chadderton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/chadderton)

## Latest updates for Shaw

- August 2026 house prices published: HM Land Registry and partners · Oct 2026.
- September 2026 rent published: ONS private rents · Oct 2026.
- Dental practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026.
- Schools updated: Ofsted · Oct 2026.

The same figures as JSON: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/places/E63001126

## How to cite

Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/town/shaw, or to one figure with its anchor, https://openindex.co.uk/town/shaw#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 2026.10.9. The HTML page: https://openindex.co.uk/town/shaw