Failsworth South
Middle areaSouth west Oldham. 5,484 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 1.1 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by middle area
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 12% of people in Failsworth South live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
Recorded crime in Failsworth South
Greater Manchester Police has supplied almost no data to police.uk since July 2019, so there is no figure for Greater Manchester.
How Failsworth South compares
Each dot is a middle area. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Failsworth South?
Failsworth South had 5,458 usual residents at the census.
Failsworth South is the 2,170th least populated of 9,448 in the UK.
Figures for the whole of Oldham
These figures are published for the whole of Oldham, not for each middle area, so they describe all of Oldham and not Failsworth South alone. See Oldham
Failsworth South in brief
The median price paid for a home in Failsworth South was £242,500 in 2025.
Failsworth South had 5,458 usual residents at the census.
About 12% of people in Failsworth South live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Failsworth South, 99.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.