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Stalybridge

Town

Town in Tameside, North West.

Stalybridge is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Stalybridge 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.

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Radon Affected Area by town

Worked out by Open Index · 2022

Under 1%90% or more

About 97% of people in Stalybridge live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Median sale price
£212,250
Joint 288th cheapest of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
26,850
416th most populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
97%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
93.1%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026

How Stalybridge compares

Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.

StalybridgeMiddle
Median sale price161 towns, North West · 2025
Median sale price: every town in North West161 areas from £95,000 to £700,000. The middle area is £222,000. Stalybridge is £212,250.
£212,25072nd cheapest
Population161 towns, North West · 2021
Population: every town in North West161 areas from 7,551 to 506,564. The middle area is 22,886. Stalybridge is 26,850.
26,85066th most populated
People in radon Affected Area squares161 towns, North West · 2022
People in radon Affected Area squares: every town in North West161 areas from 0.0% to 100.0%. The middle area is 29.0%. Stalybridge is 97.0%.
97%joint 26th most people in radon Affected Areas
Gigabit broadband coverage161 towns, North West · Jan 2026
Gigabit broadband coverage: every town in North West161 areas from 35.0% to 99.6%. The middle area is 95.7%. Stalybridge is 93.1%.
93.1%joint 35th lowest

What is the population of Stalybridge?

Stalybridge had 26,850 usual residents at the census.

Stalybridge is the 416th most populated of 1,209 in the UK.

Deprivation in Stalybridge, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Stalybridge has no single figure. Of its 16 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 2: 3 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood

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

Neighbourhoods in Stalybridge

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Tameside 003B2,479No figure397.2%
Tameside 003C1,989No figure996.7%
Tameside 003D1,383No figure874.7%
Tameside 008A1,510No figure183.0%
Tameside 008B1,728No figure195.7%
Tameside 008C1,460No figure199.8%
Tameside 008D1,415No figure296.9%
Tameside 009A1,875No figure998.8%
Tameside 009B1,559No figure390.1%
Tameside 009C1,740No figure299.2%
Tameside 009D2,045No figure395.5%
Tameside 015A1,936No figure589.3%
Tameside 015B1,577No figure291.6%
Tameside 015C1,398No figure699.4%
Tameside 015D1,710No figure1094.8%
Tameside 015E1,615No figure993.4%

Your MP

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 Stalybridge1

Middle areas in Stalybridge4

Towns near Stalybridge6

Stalybridge in brief

Stalybridge is a town in Tameside, North West.

About 27,398 people lived in Stalybridge in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £212,250 in 2025 across 314 sales (HM Land Registry).

The median price paid for a home in Stalybridge was £212,250 in 2025.

Stalybridge had 26,850 usual residents at the census.

About 97% of people in Stalybridge live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Stalybridge, 93.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.