What's the median rent in Rochdale 008F?

The median monthly rent across Rochdale 008F is £824.

How safe is Rochdale 008F?

Rochdale 008F has a safety score of — out of 100, where higher is safer.

How well-connected is Rochdale 008F?

Transport score: 97/100. Combines public transit access and walkability.

Which neighbourhood is Rochdale 008F part of?

Rochdale 008F sits inside the Wardleworth & Newbold Brow neighbourhood, in Rochdale, North West.

Sub-area · Wardleworth & Newbold Brow · Rochdale · North West

Living in Rochdale 008F

Part of Wardleworth & Newbold Brow · 1,716 residents

Rochdale 008F is a sub-area in Wardleworth & Newbold Brow, Rochdale that skews under 18 and owner-occupied dominant. Median rent sits at £824 a month, up 9.6% on the year, with council tax in band A adding roughly £217/mo. Safety ranks in the top decile of UK sub-areas (0th percentile nationally). Gigabit broadband reaches 100% of premises.

Median rent

£824+9.6%

vs last year

ONS Rent Index (PIPR) · Mar 2026

Liveability

85/100

Composite score

Safety

—

Higher is safer

Transport

97/100

Transit + walk

Schools

47/100

Ofsted-weighted

Ofsted inspections · Feb 2026

Broadband

100%

gigabit-ready

Ofcom Connected Nations 2025 · 2025

Who lives here

Age structure, tenure mix and dwelling type from Census 2021.

Age structure

Under 1830%

18–3427%

35–4922%

50–6413%

65+8%

Population1,716

Tenure & housing type

Owner-occupied57%

Private rent33%

Social rent10%

Flats1%

Terraced36%

Semi-detached55%

Detached8%

Detailed community breakdownHouseholds · ethnicity · religion · country of birth · health · qualifications

Household composition

One person25%Couple with children27%Lone parent15%Other12%

Ethnic mix

Diversity index 53.20

White29%Asian62%Black4%Mixed2%Other3%

Religion (Census 2021, voluntary question)

Christian19%Muslim65%No religion13%Other1%

Country of birth

Born in UK69%

Born outside UK31%

General health (self-reported)

Good82%Fair12%Bad6%

Disability prevalence14%

Education attainment (residents 16+)

Degree or above24%

Apprenticeship4%

No qualifications26%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (TS001 / TS006 / TS044).

Cost

An all-in monthly cost estimate for Rochdale 008F comes to about £1,097 — combining rent, council tax (band A), and an EPC-based utility estimate.

Affordability score

96/100· 90th percentile nationally

All-in monthly

£1,097

Rent + council tax + utility estimate

Median rent (any size)£824/mo+9.6%

2-bed median rent£769/mo

Council tax (estimated)£1,893/yr

Sale price (median)£150,000+4.8%

Price-to-earnings5.1×

Rent / take-home34%

EPC median bandC

Yield (gross BTL)6.2%

Detailed cost breakdownRent by bedroom & property type · sale prices · affordability

Rent by bedroom count

median monthly

1 bed£599/mo

2 bed£769/mo+9.9%

3 bed£924/mo

4 bed£1,332/mo

Rent by property type

median monthly

Detached£1,227/mo

Semi-detached£911/mo

Terraced£809/mo

Flat£681/mo

Sale price by property type

HPI average price

All properties (HPI avg)£206,592+4.8%

Detached£356,749

Semi-detached£222,483

Terraced£169,478

Flat£114,461+1.4%

Sales (Land Registry, lifetime)15

Lower quartile sale£114,000

Upper quartile sale£155,000

Affordability & running costs

Years to save 10% deposit2.5 yr

Mortgage (25y, 5%)£789/mo

Price / earnings (HPI vs ASHE)7.0×

Council tax — Band D billing£2,162/yr

Council tax — Band D incl. precepts£2,601/yr

Modal council tax bandA

Fuel poverty (LILEE)13.5%

EPC homes rated A/B0%

Source: Rent: ONS PIPR, May 2026. Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.

Property

EPC band distribution, council tax band mix and recent supply per 1,000 residents.

EPC median

C band

Modal council tax bandA

Completions / 1,0005.3

Detailed housing breakdownCouncil tax bands · EPC stock · supply pipeline

Council tax band distribution

570 dwellings · VOA CTSOP

Band A63%Band B25%Band C7%Band D5%

Modal bandA

Total dwellings570

Band D — billing only£2,162/yr

Band D — incl. all precepts£2,601/yr

Estimated for this local area's mix£1,893/yr

EPC stock

Median EPC bandC

% rated A or B0%

EPC certificates lodged28

Housing supply pipeline

MHCLG, FY 2024-25, council-area level fanned to local area

Completions (annual)480

Starts (annual)450

Completions / 1,000 households5.3

Pipeline ratio (starts / completions)0.94

Source: EPC: MHCLG bulk download. Council tax bands: VOA CTSOP 1.1.

Safety

Greater Manchester Police don't publish to data.police.uk, so crime metrics for this local area are intentionally blank. Force-level summaries are still available from the Office for National Statistics.

How crime is measured

What's counted. Incidents recorded by territorial police forces and published to data.police.uk each month. Rates use the latest 12 months of data divided by the area's mid-2024 ONS resident population — so the figure is reported incidents per 1,000 residents per year.

Anti-social behaviour is the largest category in most areas and is worth reading carefully — it's a community-reports bucket (noise, rowdiness, nuisance), not "crime" in the legal sense. ASB and shoplifting are weighted lower than violent offences in the safety score on each page.

Caveats. The denominator is residents, so workday and tourist destinations can look worse than they feel for someone living there. Greater Manchester forces stopped publishing to data.police.uk in 2020, so figures for those areas are intentionally blank rather than misleadingly low.

Safety score

—

Total / 1k / yr—0th percentile nationally

Violent / 1k / yr—

Burglary / 1k / yr—

ASB / 1k / yr—

Source: Crime: data.police.uk monthly counts, normalised by population. National avg = England + Wales population-weighted mean.

Transport

Distance to the nearest rail station, plus modelled commute time to a major employment centre.

Transport score

97/100· 93rd percentile nationally

Nearest rail1.1 km (Rochdale)

Nearest tube/metro576 m

PT to 5,000+ jobs hub—

Drive to 5,000+ jobs—

Detailed transport breakdownCity commutes · job accessibility · how residents travel to work

Commute time to major cities

public transport, off-peak typical

Manchester

28 min

Leeds

66 min

Liverpool

71 min

Sheffield

86 min

Birmingham

125 min

London

157 min

Glasgow

214 min

Edinburgh

216 min

Bristol

222 min

Cardiff

224 min

Job accessibility from this area

Minutes to reach N jobs by car / public transport

Drive — 100 jobs reachable6 min

PT — 100 jobs reachable8 min

Drive — 500 jobs reachable6 min

PT — 500 jobs reachable5 min

Drive — 5,000 jobs reachable9 min

PT — 5,000 jobs reachable20 min

How residents travel to work

Census 2021 mode share

Car61%Public7%Active8%WFH17%

Source: Rail: National Rail / TfL ATCO. Commute: DfT Journey Time Statistics.

Schools

Distribution of Ofsted ratings amongst schools serving this area.

School score

47/100

Outstanding0%

Good0%

Schools in catchment1

Nearest outstanding3.5 km

Detailed school breakdownFull Ofsted distribution · distances · catchment counts

Ofsted rating distribution

schools whose postcode falls in this local area

Requires improvement100%

Outstanding (count)0

Good (count)0

Requires improvement (count)1

Inadequate (count)0

Schools within walking distance

Schools within 2 km21

Good or outstanding within 2 km7

% within 2 km that are good/outstanding33%

Nearest school711 m

Nearest good or outstanding1.2 km

Nearest outstanding3.5 km

Source: Ofsted school inspection ratings, latest inspection per school.

Jobs

Local jobs density and pay levels. Workplace pay reflects what jobs in this area pay; residence pay reflects what residents earn.

Jobs per resident0.39

Median salary£29,535/yr

Workplace salary£29,036/yr

Claimant count6.0%-0.2pp

Detailed jobs & earnings breakdownSector mix · pay percentiles · economic activity · occupations · qualifications

Jobs by sector

% of local jobs (BRES — figure is the same across all neighbourhoods in this council area)

Retail & hospitality

24.2%

Health & social care

16.4%

Manufacturing

10.3%

Education

8.6%

Construction

5.4%

Professional & business svcs

3.8%

Tech & ICT

2.1%

Finance & insurance

0.5%

Total jobs (latest)95,000

Jobs growth — 5 year+8.0%

Jobs growth — year on year+2.1%

Net commute flow86,496

Pay percentiles — what residents earn

ASHE residence analysis, gross earnings

Lower quartile (annual)£20,255/yr

Median (annual)£29,535/yr

Mean (annual)£36,586/yr

Upper quartile (annual)£42,472/yr

Median weekly£601/wk

Median hourly£16.30/hr

Pay percentiles — what local jobs pay

ASHE workplace analysis

Lower quartile (annual)£20,450/yr

Median (annual)£29,036/yr

Mean (annual)£36,429/yr

Upper quartile (annual)£38,456/yr

Median weekly£567/wk

Median hourly£15.90/hr

Economic activity (Census 2021)

ILO unemployment 9.9% · 16+ residents

ILO unemployment rate: 9.9% · 58% economically active — Unemployed as a share of the economically active population (employed + job-seeking), matching the ONS Labour Force Survey definition. Inactive residents are excluded from the denominator.

Employed52%Unemployed6%Inactive42%

Census 2021 TS066: all residents aged 16+ split into three non-overlapping groups. Inactive covers students, retirees, full-time carers and the long-term sick — together these bars always sum to 100%. The ILO unemployment rate above strips out inactive residents, giving a figure comparable to the national headline rate.

Working-age population970

DWP claimants (people)8,780

DWP claimant rate6.0%

Claimant YoY change-0.2pp

DWP claimant count tracks 16-64 residents on Universal Credit while seeking work, or Jobseeker's Allowance. It's narrower than Census "unemployed" (which includes anyone actively job-seeking, claiming or not) but updates monthly so it's the most current local indicator.

Occupation mix

working residents

Professional29%Service21%Manual32%

Qualifications

Census 2021, residents 16+

Degree or above24%

Apprenticeship4%

No qualifications26%

Source: ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings + Business Register and Employment Survey + DWP claimant count.

Connectivity

Share of premises with each broadband tier available, latest Ofcom Connected Nations data.

Gigabit availability

100%

Ultrafast (≥100 Mbit/s)100%

Superfast (≥30 Mbit/s)100%

Below USO (<10 Mbit/s)0.0%

Sub-2 Mbit/s0.0%

Broadband + mobile coverage detailGranular speed tiers · 4G / 5G indoor & outdoor

Fixed-line broadband — coverage by tier

Gigabit-capable100%

≥300 Mbit/s available100%

Ultrafast (≥100 Mbit/s)100%

Superfast (≥30 Mbit/s)100%

Below USO (<10 Mbit/s)0.0%

Sub-2 Mbit/s premises0.0%

Mobile coverage

Ofcom Connected Nations 2025

4G indoor — any operator100%

4G indoor — all operators95%

5G outdoor — any operator100%

Voice indoor — any operator100%

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations 2025, postcode-level coverage aggregated to local area.

Environment

Air quality (annual mean concentrations), flood risk, and walkable greenspace.

PM2.5 annual mean7.2 µg/m³

NO₂ annual mean12.6 µg/m³

Flood risk zone0

Greenspace within 300m15%

Parks within 1km2.1

Detailed environment breakdownGreenspace access · AHAH composite indices

Greenspace access (ONS, April 2020)

Distance to nearest greenspace668 m

Greenspaces within 1 km2.1

Combined greenspace area11.0 ha

Postcodes within 300 m of a park15%

AHAH — Access to Healthy Assets & Hazards

CDRC national percentile, higher = healthier neighbourhood

Overall AHAH

52 pct

Health services

21 pct

Green & blue space

57 pct

Air quality

84 pct

Retail hazards

53 pct

Source: Air: Defra UK-AIR PCM Background. Flood: Environment Agency. Greenspace: ONS access study (April 2020).

Healthcare

Walking distance to the nearest GP, hospital and dentist.

Nearest GP561 m

Nearest hospital1.4 km

Nearest dentist621 m

Fuel poverty13.5%

Detailed healthcare breakdownGP capacity · counts within walking distance · dental supply

GP supply

GP practices within 1 km9

GP practices within 3 km36

Patients per local GP3,212

Catchment concentration (HHI)1,476

Dental & hospital supply

Dentists within 3 km15

Dental UDA / 1k pop (ICB level)1375

Hospitals within 5 km3

Nearest urgent care1.4 km

Population health context

Self-reported good health82%

Self-reported bad health6%

Disability prevalence14%

IMD health sub-domain1.18

Source: NHS ODS / CQC Locations + nearest-feature distance from local area centroid.

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What's it like to rent in Rochdale 008F?

Rochdale 008F sits inside Wardleworth & Newbold Brow, part of the wider Rochdale council area in North West. Editorial copy will replace this scaffold once the team has reviewed the area in person — until then the data tabs above are the authoritative reference.

Strengths and trade-offs

Read the dimensional ranks above for the canonical view of where this sub-area excels and where it lags. Any qualitative spin should follow from those numbers.

Who is Rochdale 008F for?

Renters most likely to thrive here are those whose priorities align with the area's strongest scores. The demographics tab gives the clearest read — age profile, tenure mix and household composition are usually the best predictor of who'll feel at home on which streets.

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Frequently asked

What's the median rent in Rochdale 008F?: The median monthly rent across Rochdale 008F is £824.
How safe is Rochdale 008F?: Rochdale 008F has a safety score of — out of 100, where higher is safer.
How well-connected is Rochdale 008F?: Transport score: 97/100. Combines public transit access and walkability.
Which neighbourhood is Rochdale 008F part of?: Rochdale 008F sits inside the Wardleworth & Newbold Brow neighbourhood, in Rochdale, North West.

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