Cheadle Heath

Stockport · North West · population 8,921 · 6 LSOAs

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

38Area Score / 100 ?
  • #4,248 of 6,856 in England
  • #455 of 932 in North West
  • #32 of 42 in Stockport
  • More deprived (bottom 40%)
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People living here Census 2021

Residents8,924
Median age (est.)39
Density4,477per km²
No qualifications17%
Degree or above34%
No car or van20%

Age

0–14 19%15–24 9%25–44 31%45–64 26%65+ 15%

Tenure

Own outright: 31%Mortgage/shared: 42%Social rent: 11%Private rent: 16%
Own outright 31%Mortgage/shared 42%Social rent 11%Private rent 16%

Households

One person: 29%Couple, no children: 19%Couple with children: 28%Lone parent: 12%Other: 11%
One person 29%Couple, no children 19%Couple with children 28%Lone parent 12%Other 11%

Work (top occupations)

Professional 23% · Associate professional 16% · Administrative 11%

All occupation groups
Professional23%
Associate professional16%
Administrative11%
Managers & directors10%
Caring & leisure10%
Skilled trades9%
Elementary9%
Sales & customer service8%
Process & plant6%

Ethnic group

White: 90%Asian: 5%Black: 1%Mixed: 3%Other: 1%
White 90%Asian 5%Black 1%Mixed 3%Other 1%

Religion & identity

No religion 47% · Christian 43% · Muslim 3%

Born outside the UK: 8%

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

Cheadle Heath is in the more-deprived bottom 40% of England, ranked #4,248 of 6,856 neighbourhoods nationally, and #32 of 42 in Stockport. It is highly uneven across the seven themes — strong on Housing & access (98) but weak on Living environment (4). Typical homes here, about £300,000 over the past year, have climbed steeply — up 50% in five years (from 135 sales), in line with the wider Stockport median of £310,000. Typical household take-home income is around £37,154 a year, around the middle of England.

Themed scores ?

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

Income 43 · #3,899
Employment 42 · #3,974
Education 48 · #3,583
Health 32 · #4,659
Crime 28 · #4,906
Housing & access 98 · #149
Living environment 4 · #6,558

House prices ?

£300,000median (12m) · +20.0% yr · n=135
TypeMedian (12m)Sales1yr5yr
All homes£300,000135+20.0%+50.0%
Detached£350,00013-1.4%+24.1%
Semi-detached£320,00083+24.5%+48.3%
Terraced£253,00036+10.3%+47.1%
FlatToo few sales to report (n=3)
This area£300,000
Stockport£310,000
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)£37,154±£5,265 · #4,318 of 6,856
After housing costs (equivalised)£34,295
Price-to-income ?8.1×typical home ÷ net income — more stretched than 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 ?

53Affordability-adjusted Score / 100
Best-value areas in England →

Recorded crime

No recorded-crime data: the police force covering Cheadle Heath 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).

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