Heywood

What is it like to live in Heywood?

Homes sold for a typical £195,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 672 of the 795 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 40 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 11 of its 808 postcodes. It has 10 primary schools and 2 secondary schools at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Castleton (Manchester), 3.1 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in Heywood?

Homes in Heywood sold for a typical £195,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 294 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £179,500 from 357 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £348,750 50 sales
• Semi-detached £223,000 95 sales
• Terraced £162,250 136 sales
• Flat or maisonette £117,500 13 sales

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Across the whole OL10 district, Heywood's main postcode district: a typical £201,500.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Heywood: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

Are new homes being built in Heywood?

13 of the 808 postcodes now in use in Heywood came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 1 of the 357 homes sold in Heywood were newly built (Under 1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the OL10 district, 17%.

The newest postcodes

A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.

New homes among the homes sold

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

What broadband can you get in Heywood?

Ofcom reports on 795 of the 808 postcodes in Heywood. At 672 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is Heywood at risk of flooding?

11 of the 808 postcodes in Heywood have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 40 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026.

Which schools are in Heywood?

The open schools at the postcodes in Heywood (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.

An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).

Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

How far is the station from Heywood?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Heywood is Castleton (Manchester) Rail Station, 3.1 km away in a straight line.

• Castleton (Manchester) Rail Station Railway station 3.1 kmCycle
• Rochdale Rail Station Railway station 5.2 kmDrive
• Mills Hill (Manchester) Rail Station Railway station 5.6 kmDrive
• Heywood (East Lancashire Railway) Underground, metro or tram 1.2 kmWalk

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in Heywood?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Heywood, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

• Birtle View Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 01706 261823 550 mWalk
• Longford Street Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report June 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 01706 621417 550 mWalk
• Hopwood Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report May 2019, over 3 years old · Phone 01706 369886 900 mWalk
• Heywood Health Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report January 2019, over 3 years old · Phone 01706 366135 1.0 kmWalk
• Heady Hill Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report April 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 01706 622600 1.2 kmWalk

Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

Is Heywood safe? Crime recorded around it

Greater Manchester's police force has published no crime figures to Police.uk for any month from September 2024 to August 2026, so we have none to show for Heywood. A count from Police.uk here would take in only the few crimes that neighbouring forces record nearby, so we show none rather than a figure that looks like a quiet area.

Source: police.uk, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Heywood?

Council

Rochdale

Parliamentary constituency

Heywood and Middleton North

Police force area

Greater Manchester

Region

North West

Country

England

MP

Mrs Elsie Blundell (Labour)

All 808 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.