Swinton
TownTown in Salford, North West.
Swinton is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Swinton 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 83% of people in Swinton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Swinton compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Swinton?
Swinton had 22,886 usual residents at the census.
Swinton is the 483rd most populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Deprivation in Swinton, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Swinton has no single figure. Of its 16 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 2 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 Swinton
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salford 005B | 1,278 | No figure | 3 | 100.0% |
| Salford 006A | 1,463 | No figure | 3 | 97.8% |
| Salford 006B | 1,568 | No figure | 4 | 100.0% |
| Salford 009A | 1,804 | No figure | 4 | 98.4% |
| Salford 009B | 1,366 | No figure | 1 | 99.8% |
| Salford 009C | 1,568 | No figure | 4 | 99.7% |
| Salford 012A | 1,567 | No figure | 2 | 99.8% |
| Salford 012B | 1,573 | No figure | 3 | 100.0% |
| Salford 012C | 1,709 | No figure | 7 | 99.9% |
| Salford 012D | 1,784 | No figure | 6 | 100.0% |
| Salford 012E | 1,745 | No figure | 1 | 95.1% |
| Salford 012F | 1,516 | No figure | 3 | 100.0% |
| Salford 014A | 1,556 | No figure | 10 | 99.7% |
| Salford 014B | 1,531 | No figure | 9 | 99.7% |
| Salford 014E | 1,679 | No figure | 9 | 100.0% |
| Salford 014F | 1,555 | No figure | 8 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Michael WheelerLabourMP for Worsley and Eccles
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 Swinton2
Middle areas in Swinton4
Towns near Swinton6
Swinton in brief
Swinton is a town in Salford, North West.
About 23,906 people lived in Swinton in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £249,000 in 2025 across 339 sales (HM Land Registry).
The median price paid for a home in Swinton was £249,000 in 2025.
Swinton had 22,886 usual residents at the census.
About 83% of people in Swinton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Swinton, 99.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.