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Guide Bridge

Tameside · North West · population 7,574 · 5 LSOAs

Postcode M34

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

22Area Score / 100 ?
  • #5,318 of 6,856 in England
  • #597 of 932 in North West
  • #19 of 30 in Tameside
  • More deprived (bottom 30%)
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People living here Census 2021

Residents7,418
Median age (est.)40
Density4,317per km²
No qualifications22%
Degree or above24%
No car or van26%

Age

0–14 18%15–24 11%25–44 28%45–64 27%65+ 16%

Tenure

Own outright: 27%Mortgage/shared: 32%Social rent: 27%Private rent: 14%
Own outright 27%Mortgage/shared 32%Social rent 27%Private rent 14%

Households

One person: 34%Couple, no children: 16%Couple with children: 24%Lone parent: 15%Other: 11%
One person 34%Couple, no children 16%Couple with children 24%Lone parent 15%Other 11%

Work (top occupations)

Professional 15% · Administrative 13% · Associate professional 13%

All occupation groups
Professional15%
Administrative13%
Associate professional13%
Skilled trades12%
Elementary10%
Managers & directors9%
Caring & leisure9%
Sales & customer service9%
Process & plant9%

Ethnic group

White: 88%Asian: 5%Black: 3%Mixed: 3%Other: 1%
White 88%Asian 5%Black 3%Mixed 3%Other 1%

Religion & identity

Christian 49% · No religion 40% · Muslim 4%

Born outside the UK: 9%

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

Guide Bridge is in the more-deprived bottom third of England, ranked #5,318 of 6,856 neighbourhoods nationally, and #19 of 30 in Tameside. Across the seven themes it scores highest on Housing & access (51) and lowest on Health (16). Typical homes here sold for about £212,500 over the past year, up 16% across five years (from 87 sales), in line with the wider Tameside median of £215,000. Typical household take-home income is around £30,899 a year, among England's lowest.

Themed scores ?

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

Income 26 · #5,105
Employment 20 · #5,482
Education 29 · #4,879
Health 16 · #5,729
Crime 20 · #5,496
Housing & access 51 · #3,364
Living environment 33 · #4,570

House prices ?

£212,500median (12m) · 0.0% yr · n=87
TypeMedian (12m)Sales1yr5yr
All homes£212,500870.0%+15.5%
Detached£348,7508+16.2%+24.6%
Semi-detached£252,50024+5.2%+21.1%
Terraced£185,00049+0.5%+28.5%
Flat£159,5006——
This area£212,500
Tameside£215,000
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)£30,899±£4,384 · #6,218 of 6,856
After housing costs (equivalised)£30,220
Price-to-income ?6.9×typical home ÷ net income — less 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 ?

48Affordability-adjusted Score / 100
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Recorded crime

No recorded-crime data: the police force covering Guide Bridge 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.

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