Ashton Central
Middle areaWest Tameside. 12,232 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 3.5 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by middle area
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 96% of people in Ashton Central live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
Recorded crime in Ashton Central
Greater Manchester Police has supplied almost no data to police.uk since July 2019, so there is no figure for Greater Manchester.
How Ashton Central compares
Each dot is a middle area. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Ashton Central?
Ashton Central had 11,205 usual residents at the census.
Ashton Central is the 513th most populated of 9,448 in the UK.
Figures for the whole of Tameside
These figures are published for the whole of Tameside, not for each middle area, so they describe all of Tameside and not Ashton Central alone. See Tameside
Ashton Central in brief
The median price paid for a home in Ashton Central was £160,000 in 2025.
Ashton Central had 11,205 usual residents at the census.
About 96% of people in Ashton Central live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Ashton Central, 91.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.