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Ashton East

Middle area

North west Tameside. 7,424 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 1.7 square kilometres.

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Radon Affected Area by middle area

Worked out by Open Index · 2022

Under 1%90% or more

About 100% of people in Ashton East live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Median sale price
£192,730
1,340th cheapest of 7,259
Worked out by Open Index
Population
7,215
Joint 4,569th least populated of 9,448
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
100%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
97.3%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026

Recorded crime in Ashton East

Greater Manchester Police has supplied almost no data to police.uk since July 2019, so there is no figure for Greater Manchester.

How Ashton East compares

Each dot is a middle area. The black line marks the middle one.

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Median sale price30 middle areas, Tameside · 2025
Median sale price: every middle area in Tameside30 areas from £160,000 to £292,500. The middle area is £209,250. Ashton East is £192,730.
£192,7306th cheapest
Population30 middle areas, Tameside · 2021
Population: every middle area in Tameside30 areas from 5,015 to 11,983. The middle area is 7,438. Ashton East is 7,215.
7,21512th least populated
People in radon Affected Area squares30 middle areas, Tameside · 2022
People in radon Affected Area squares: every middle area in Tameside30 areas from 0.0% to 100.0%. The middle area is 96.5%. Ashton East is 100.0%.
100%joint most people in radon Affected Areas
Gigabit broadband coverage30 middle areas, Tameside · Jan 2026
Gigabit broadband coverage: every middle area in Tameside30 areas from 84.6% to 99.3%. The middle area is 96.4%. Ashton East is 97.3%.
97.3%11th highest

What is the population of Ashton East?

Ashton East had 7,215 usual residents at the census.

Ashton East is the joint 4,569th least 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 East alone. See Tameside

Average house price
£213,026
Up 1.4% in a year
HM Land Registry · Aug 2026
Median full-time pay
£33,949
32nd lowest paid of 348
ONS earnings survey · 2025
House price to pay
6.3×
Joint 114th most affordable of 348
Worked out by Open Index
Deprivation score
29.8
Joint 43rd most deprived of 296
MHCLG · England only
Ashton East in brief

The median price paid for a home in Ashton East was £192,730 in 2025.

Ashton East had 7,215 usual residents at the census.

About 100% of people in Ashton East live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Ashton East, 97.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.