Whitefield
TownTown in Bury, North West.
Whitefield is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Whitefield 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 70% of people in Whitefield live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Whitefield compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Whitefield?
Whitefield had 22,193 usual residents at the census.
Whitefield is the 491st most populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Deprivation in Whitefield, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Whitefield has no single figure. Of its 15 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- 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 Whitefield
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bury 019A | 1,392 | No figure | 9 | 96.9% |
| Bury 019B | 1,462 | No figure | 10 | 95.6% |
| Bury 019C | 1,421 | No figure | 9 | 90.3% |
| Bury 019D | 1,509 | No figure | 6 | 95.0% |
| Bury 020A | 1,355 | No figure | 6 | 99.7% |
| Bury 020B | 1,627 | No figure | 4 | 93.8% |
| Bury 020C | 1,310 | No figure | 1 | 100.0% |
| Bury 020D | 1,387 | No figure | 5 | 96.3% |
| Bury 021A | 1,869 | No figure | 3 | 99.1% |
| Bury 021B | 1,700 | No figure | 1 | 97.6% |
| Bury 021C | 1,837 | No figure | 4 | 100.0% |
| Bury 021D | 1,517 | No figure | 8 | 100.0% |
| Bury 021E | 1,679 | No figure | 1 | 100.0% |
| Bury 022B | 1,626 | No figure | 8 | 99.8% |
| Bury 022C | 1,480 | No figure | 9 | 99.6% |
Your MP
- Christian WakefordLabourMP for Bury South
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 Whitefield2
Middle areas in Whitefield4
Towns near Whitefield6
Whitefield in brief
Whitefield is a town in Bury, North West.
About 22,718 people lived in Whitefield in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £268,000 in 2025 across 263 sales (HM Land Registry).
The median price paid for a home in Whitefield was £268,000 in 2025.
Whitefield had 22,193 usual residents at the census.
About 70% of people in Whitefield live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Whitefield, 97.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.