Living in Ashton-under-Lyne
Ashton-under-Lyne is a town in Tameside, North West, England. This guide describes it as one place — who lives there, what sits inside its boundary and how safe it is — from official UK data. For any single street, the NestScope area report covers every Ashton-under-Lyne postcode.
Ashton-under-Lyne is a town of 48,595 people at 4,029 per km², where 9% of residents live in neighbourhoods in England's better-off half. 17 of its 17 inspected schools are rated Good or Outstanding.
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Best-rated schools in Ashton-under-Lyne
Ranked by Ofsted grade. All 23 schools → Schools in Ashton-under-Lyne
Ashton-under-Lyne crime rate
This police force does not publish street-level crime to the national feed, so a count for the town cannot be shown.
- Is Ashton-under-Lyne a good place to live?
- Ashton-under-Lyne has 48,595 residents, 9% of them in neighbourhoods in England's better-off half, 100% of its inspected schools are rated Good or Outstanding. Whether it is a good place to live depends on the street: the NestScope area report scores any Ashton-under-Lyne postcode.
- How many people live in Ashton-under-Lyne?
- 48,595 people live in Ashton-under-Lyne (Census 2021, ONS built-up area), across 12.1 km² — about 4,029 per km².
- What are the schools like in Ashton-under-Lyne?
- There are 23 schools inside Ashton-under-Lyne; 100% of those inspected are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. The top-rated include St Damian's RC Science College, Ashton West End Primary Academy and Canon Burrows CofE Primary School.
- Where is Ashton-under-Lyne?
- Ashton-under-Lyne is a town in Tameside, North West, England, served by Ashton Moss (Manchester Metrolink), Ashton West (Manchester Metrolink), Ashton-Under-Lyne (Manchester Metrolink), Ashton-under-Lyne and Guide Bridge railway stations.
This page is NestScope's guide to Ashton-under-Lyne as a whole town, built from the same official sources as the area reports: the ONS boundary of the built-up area, Census 2021, the English Indices of Deprivation, police.uk recorded crime and the Department for Education's school register. Counts are of what sits inside the boundary; crime is a three-month average. It is updated as those sources publish.
Sources — ONS built-up areas 2022, Output Area lookups and Census 2021 (OGL v3.0) · English Indices of Deprivation 2019, carried onto 2021 LSOAs · police.uk street-level crime, the town boundary passed as the query polygon · DfE GIAS + Ofsted, NHS ODS, NaPTAN, OS Open Greenspace, Geolytix, Arts Council — every point counted by which 2021 neighbourhood it falls in.