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Langley & Wood Side

Rochdale · North West · population 12,839 · 6 LSOAs

Postcode M24 · OL10

Approximate neighbourhood (MSOA) boundary. © OpenStreetMap contributors; boundary © ONS / Crown copyright.

8Area Score / 100 ?
  • #6,305 of 6,856 in England
  • #768 of 932 in North West
  • #20 of 25 in Rochdale
  • Most deprived 10% in England
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People living here Census 2021

Residents12,278
Median age (est.)35
Density2,583per km²
No qualifications29%
Degree or above22%
No car or van36%

Age

0–14 25%15–24 10%25–44 30%45–64 22%65+ 13%

Tenure

Own outright: 17%Mortgage/shared: 27%Social rent: 43%Private rent: 13%
Own outright 17%Mortgage/shared 27%Social rent 43%Private rent 13%

Households

One person: 30%Couple, no children: 12%Couple with children: 25%Lone parent: 20%Other: 13%
One person 30%Couple, no children 12%Couple with children 25%Lone parent 20%Other 13%

Work (top occupations)

Elementary 17% · Caring & leisure 14% · Professional 12%

All occupation groups
Elementary17%
Caring & leisure14%
Professional12%
Skilled trades11%
Associate professional10%
Sales & customer service10%
Process & plant10%
Administrative9%
Managers & directors8%

Ethnic group

White: 81%Asian: 4%Black: 11%Mixed: 3%Other: 1%
White 81%Asian 4%Black 11%Mixed 3%Other 1%

Religion & identity

Christian 58% · No religion 33% · Muslim 4%

Born outside the UK: 19%

Census 2021 (ONS), Crown copyright, OGL v3.0. Shares are of each question's own respondents (e.g. education is % of residents aged 16+). Figures date from March 2021 and change slowly between censuses.

In summary

Langley & Wood Side is one of the most-deprived 10% of neighbourhoods in England, ranked #6,305 of 6,856 neighbourhoods nationally, and #20 of 25 in Rochdale. It is highly uneven across the seven themes — strong on Living environment (90) but weak on Health (6). Typical homes here sold for about £232,000 over the past year, up 24% across five years (from 113 sales), 12% above the wider Rochdale median of £206,500. Typical household take-home income is around £29,665 a year, among England's lowest.

Themed scores ?

Each 0–100, higher = less deprived on that theme. National rank shown.

Income 6 · #6,421
Employment 6 · #6,449
Education 12 · #6,044
Health 6 · #6,469
Crime 9 · #6,209
Housing & access 57 · #2,953
Living environment 90 · #684

House prices ?

£232,000median (12m) · +10.5% yr · n=113
TypeMedian (12m)Sales1yr5yr
All homes£232,000113+10.5%+24.1%
Detached£303,50019+8.4%+19.5%
Semi-detached£254,00055+12.6%+35.8%
Terraced£172,50036+1.5%+13.3%
FlatToo few sales to report (n=3)
This area£232,000
Rochdale£206,500
North West£225,000
England£300,000
Annual median price, all homes. Small samples can be volatile.

Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Household income

Net household income (a year)£29,665±£4,222 · #6,464 of 6,856
After housing costs (equivalised)£27,832
Price-to-income ?7.8×typical home ÷ net income — similar to the England figure of 7.5×

Model-based ONS estimates (FYE 2023) with 95% confidence intervals — a guide to the typical household, not a measurement. How income estimates work →

Affordability-adjusted Score ?

18Affordability-adjusted Score / 100
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Recorded crime

No recorded-crime data: the police force covering Langley & Wood Side has not published usable street-level data for this period, so no rate or comparison is shown (a zero here would be misleading, not reassuring).

Official sources

Nearby areas

The closest neighbourhoods on the map, whichever authority they fall in.

Middleton Town & Rhodes North Middleton & Stakehill Heywood Hopwood & Siddal Moor Boothroyden & Higher Blackley (Manchester) Middleton East Unsworth (Bury)

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