Walkden
TownTown in Salford and Wigan, North West.
Walkden is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Walkden 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 53% of people in Walkden live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Walkden compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Walkden?
Walkden had 18,684 usual residents at the census.
Walkden is the 582nd most populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Deprivation in Walkden, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Walkden has no single figure. Of its 11 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 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%): 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Walkden
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salford 003C | 1,751 | No figure | 1 | 96.2% |
| Salford 003D | 1,965 | No figure | 8 | 99.7% |
| Salford 003E | 1,141 | No figure | 3 | 100.0% |
| Salford 007A | 1,394 | No figure | 6 | 99.9% |
| Salford 007B | 1,838 | No figure | 3 | 99.9% |
| Salford 007C | 1,627 | No figure | 9 | 99.9% |
| Salford 007D | 1,712 | No figure | 3 | 100.0% |
| Salford 007E | 1,746 | No figure | 9 | 99.9% |
| Salford 013A | 1,633 | No figure | 10 | 99.6% |
| Salford 013B | 1,555 | No figure | 10 | 100.0% |
| Wigan 029C | 1,581 | No figure | 7 | 99.1% |
Your MP
- Yasmin QureshiLabourMP for Bolton South and Walkden
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Councils Walkden sits in2
Postcode districts covering Walkden1
Middle areas in Walkden2
Towns near Walkden6
Walkden in brief
Walkden is a town in Salford and Wigan, North West.
About 19,822 people lived in Walkden in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £270,000 in 2025 across 296 sales (HM Land Registry).
The median price paid for a home in Walkden was £270,000 in 2025.
Walkden had 18,684 usual residents at the census.
About 53% of people in Walkden live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Walkden, 98.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.