Newhey

What is it like to live in Newhey?

Homes sold for a typical £193,750 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 73 of the 78 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 261 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 34 of its 78 postcodes. It has 2 primary schools at its postcodes. 2 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Smithy Bridge, 3.8 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 Newhey?

Homes in Newhey sold for a typical £193,750 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 32 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £180,500 from 40 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached 2 sales, too few to price
• Semi-detached £217,500 11 sales
• Terraced £180,000 19 sales

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

Across the whole OL16 district, Newhey's main postcode district: a typical £205,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Newhey: 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 Newhey?

None of the 78 postcodes now in use in Newhey came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 40 homes sold in Newhey were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the OL16 district, Under 1%.

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 Newhey?

Ofcom reports on 78 of the 78 postcodes in Newhey. At 73 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 Newhey at risk of flooding?

34 of the 78 postcodes in Newhey 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 261 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 Newhey?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Newhey. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. 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 Newhey?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Newhey is Smithy Bridge Rail Station, 3.8 km away in a straight line.

• Smithy Bridge Rail Station Railway station 3.8 kmCycle
• Rochdale Rail Station Railway station 3.9 kmCycle
• Littleborough Rail Station Railway station 4.7 kmCycle
• Newhey (Manchester Metrolink) Underground, metro or tram 100 mWalk
• Milnrow (Manchester Metrolink) Underground, metro or tram 1.3 kmCycle

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 Newhey?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Newhey. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

• Milnrow Village Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Outstanding CQC report March 2019, over 3 years old · Phone 01706 641409 600 mWalk
• Stonefield Street Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report April 2019, over 3 years old · Phone 01706 646234 600 mWalk

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

Is Newhey 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 Newhey. 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 Newhey?

Council

Rochdale

Parliamentary constituency

Rochdale

Police force area

Greater Manchester

Region

North West

Country

England

MP

Paul Waugh (Labour (Co-op))

All 78 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.