Rochdale

What is it like to live in Rochdale?

Homes sold for a typical £204,500 in the 12 months to September 2026, up 7.6% on the 12 months before. At 2,138 of the 2,534 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 340 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 191 of its 2,628 postcodes. It has 34 primary schools, 7 secondary schools and 1 all-through school at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Rochdale, 900 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

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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 Rochdale?

Homes in Rochdale sold for a typical £204,500 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 876 sales, up 7.6% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

• Detached £345,000 228 sales
• Semi-detached £215,000 279 sales
• Terraced £155,000 317 sales
• Flat or maisonette £127,750 52 sales

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

Across the whole OL11 district, Rochdale's main postcode district: a typical £220,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Rochdale: 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 Rochdale?

94 of the 2,628 postcodes now in use in Rochdale came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 5 of the 1,000 homes sold in Rochdale were newly built (Under 1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the OL11 district, 5%.

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 Rochdale?

Ofcom reports on 2,534 of the 2,628 postcodes in Rochdale. At 2,138 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

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 Rochdale at risk of flooding?

191 of the 2,628 postcodes in Rochdale 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 340 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 Rochdale?

The open schools at the postcodes in Rochdale (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 Rochdale?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Rochdale is Rochdale Rail Station, 900 m away in a straight line.

• Rochdale Rail Station Railway station 900 mWalk
• Castleton (Manchester) Rail Station Railway station 2.9 kmCycle
• Smithy Bridge Rail Station Railway station 3.8 kmCycle
• Rochdale Town Centre (Manchester Metrolink) Underground, metro or tram 500 mWalk
• Rochdale Railway Station (Manchester Metrolink) Underground, metro or tram 800 mWalk

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 Rochdale?

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

• The Dawes Family Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 01706 644040 400 mWalk
• Ashworth Street Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report December 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01706 346767 400 mWalk
• Dr A Hamid Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report February 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 01706 261888 750 mWalk
• Dr Gwd Bhima Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report September 2023, over 3 years old · Phone 01706 261810 750 mWalk
• Dr Mb Ghafoor & Partners Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report March 2019, over 3 years old · Phone 01706 261999 750 mWalk

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

Is Rochdale 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 Rochdale. 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 Rochdale?

Councils

Rochdale (2,624) and Rossendale (4)

Parliamentary constituencies

Rochdale (1,749), Heywood and Middleton North (875) and Rossendale and Darwen (4)

Police force areas

Greater Manchester (2,624) and Lancashire (4)

Region

North West

Country

England

Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?

Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.