# Whitefield

Town in Bury, North West.

Whitefield is a town in Bury, North West. Median sale price £268,000 in 2025. About 22,718 people.

Town. Code E63001173. In: [Towns](https://openindex.co.uk/places/towns) › [Bury](https://openindex.co.uk/bury)

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.

## Key figures

- **Median sale price: £268,000** (2025). The median price paid for a home in Whitefield was £268,000 in 2025. Joint 525th most expensive 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/whitefield#f-house-sales-median-price
- **Population: 22,193** (2021). Whitefield had 22,193 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 491st 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/whitefield#f-population
- **People in radon Affected Area squares: 70%** (2022). About 70% of people in Whitefield 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/whitefield#f-radon-affected-share
- **Gigabit broadband coverage: 97.9%** (January 2026). In Whitefield, 97.9% 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/whitefield#f-gigabit-coverage

## On the map

- [Radon Affected Area by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas?place=E63001173) (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.
- [Sales per year by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/house-sales-per-year?place=E63001173) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 263 homes were sold in Whitefield in 2025.
- [Population by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population?place=E63001173) (Census 2021, England and Wales): Whitefield had 22,193 usual residents at the census.
- [Deprivation score by council](https://openindex.co.uk/map/deprivation-score-england?place=E63001173) (English Indices of Deprivation 2025): Published for whole councils, so the map colours all of Bury, where most of this town lies. The outline is Whitefield.

## How Whitefield compares

Each town against every other town the measure covers.

| Measure | Whitefield | Rank | Compared with |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Median sale price | £268,000 | 37th most expensive | 161 towns, North West · 2025 |
| Population | 22,193 | 80th least populated | 161 towns, North West · 2021 |
| People in radon Affected Area squares | 70% | joint 64th most people in radon Affected Areas | 161 towns, North West · 2022 |
| Gigabit broadband coverage | 97.9% | joint 28th highest | 161 towns, North West · Jan 2026 |

## 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

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

## Neighbourhoods in Whitefield

| Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Bury 019A](https://openindex.co.uk/bury/neighbourhood/e01004984) | 1,392 | – | 9 | 96.9% |
| [Bury 019B](https://openindex.co.uk/bury/neighbourhood/e01004985) | 1,462 | – | 10 | 95.6% |
| [Bury 019C](https://openindex.co.uk/bury/neighbourhood/e01004989) | 1,421 | – | 9 | 90.3% |
| [Bury 019D](https://openindex.co.uk/bury/neighbourhood/e01005007) | 1,509 | – | 6 | 95.0% |
| [Bury 020A](https://openindex.co.uk/bury/neighbourhood/e01004983) | 1,355 | – | 6 | 99.7% |
| [Bury 020B](https://openindex.co.uk/bury/neighbourhood/e01004986) | 1,627 | – | 4 | 93.8% |
| [Bury 020C](https://openindex.co.uk/bury/neighbourhood/e01004987) | 1,310 | – | 1 | 100.0% |
| [Bury 020D](https://openindex.co.uk/bury/neighbourhood/e01004988) | 1,387 | – | 5 | 96.3% |
| [Bury 021A](https://openindex.co.uk/bury/neighbourhood/e01004941) | 1,869 | – | 3 | 99.1% |
| [Bury 021B](https://openindex.co.uk/bury/neighbourhood/e01004942) | 1,700 | – | 1 | 97.6% |
| [Bury 021C](https://openindex.co.uk/bury/neighbourhood/e01004943) | 1,837 | – | 4 | 100.0% |
| [Bury 021D](https://openindex.co.uk/bury/neighbourhood/e01004944) | 1,517 | – | 8 | 100.0% |
| [Bury 021E](https://openindex.co.uk/bury/neighbourhood/e01004946) | 1,679 | – | 1 | 100.0% |
| [Bury 022B](https://openindex.co.uk/bury/neighbourhood/e01004970) | 1,626 | – | 8 | 99.8% |
| [Bury 022C](https://openindex.co.uk/bury/neighbourhood/e01004971) | 1,480 | – | 9 | 99.6% |

## Your MP

- [Bury South](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/bury-south): Christian Wakeford (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

[Bury](https://openindex.co.uk/bury)

## Postcode districts covering Whitefield

[M25](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/m25), [M45](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/m45)

## Middle areas in Whitefield

[Besses](https://openindex.co.uk/bury/besses), [Kirkhams & Holyrood](https://openindex.co.uk/bury/kirkhams-and-holyrood), [Whitefield East](https://openindex.co.uk/bury/whitefield-east), [Whitefield West & Park Lane](https://openindex.co.uk/bury/whitefield-west-and-park-lane)

## Towns near Whitefield

[Bury](https://openindex.co.uk/town/bury), [Radcliffe](https://openindex.co.uk/town/radcliffe), [Prestwich](https://openindex.co.uk/town/prestwich), [Clifton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/clifton-salford), [Manchester](https://openindex.co.uk/manchester), [Kearsley](https://openindex.co.uk/town/kearsley)

## 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.

## About

- Type: Town
- Code: E63001173
- Constituency: [Bury South †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/bury-south)
- Council: [Bury †](https://openindex.co.uk/bury)
- Region: [North West](https://openindex.co.uk/north-west)
- Nation: [England](https://openindex.co.uk/england)
- Area: 4.37 km²
- People, mid-2024: 22,718*
- Neighbourhoods: 15
- Output areas: 72

* 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

[Bury](https://openindex.co.uk/town/bury), [Radcliffe](https://openindex.co.uk/town/radcliffe), [Prestwich](https://openindex.co.uk/town/prestwich), [Clifton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/clifton-salford), [Manchester](https://openindex.co.uk/manchester), [Kearsley](https://openindex.co.uk/town/kearsley)

## Latest updates for Whitefield

- 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/E63001173

## How to cite

Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/town/whitefield, or to one figure with its anchor, https://openindex.co.uk/town/whitefield#f-house-sales-median-price.

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Snapshot 2026.10.9. The HTML page: https://openindex.co.uk/town/whitefield