Stalybridge
Stalybridge is covered by postcode district SK15. It is in the Tameside council area, England.
Every postcode in Stalybridge, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 33
- At medium risk at worst: 4
- At low risk at worst: 26
- At very low risk only: 0
- Not on the at-risk list: 551
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
Of the 614 postcodes in Stalybridge that ONS places, 33 have a home or business at high risk, 4 are at medium risk at worst, 26 are at low risk at worst and 551 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.
Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 53.4873, longitude -2.0461. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre.
The postcodes at high risk
33 postcodes here have a home or business at high risk. These are the 12 with the most homes and businesses at that risk.
Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.
Where the postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
- 28 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. SK15 3AD, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
What is it like to live in Stalybridge?
Homes sold for a typical £220,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 483 of the 607 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 576 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 63 of its 614 postcodes. It has 11 primary schools, 2 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 Stalybridge, 1.1 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 Stalybridge?
Homes in Stalybridge sold for a typical £220,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 253 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £220,000 from 316 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £417,500 47 sales
- Semi-detached £250,000 76 sales
- Terraced £190,000 107 sales
- Flat or maisonette £138,750 23 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole SK15 district, Stalybridge's main postcode district: a typical £222,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Stalybridge: 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 Stalybridge?
10 of the 614 postcodes now in use in Stalybridge came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 316 homes sold in Stalybridge were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the SK15 district, 0%.
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
| Period | In Stalybridge | Across the SK15 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to September 2026 | 1 of 253 (Under 1%) | 1 of 269 (Under 1%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 0 of 316 (0%) | 0 of 334 (0%) |
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 Stalybridge?
Ofcom reports on 607 of the 614 postcodes in Stalybridge. At 483 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.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.
Is Stalybridge at risk of flooding?
63 of the 614 postcodes in Stalybridge 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 576 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 Stalybridge?
The open schools at the postcodes in Stalybridge (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.
Primary
- St Paul's CofE Primary School, Stalybridge250 m 190 pupils, 255 places
- Wild Bank Primary School650 m 133 pupils, 210 places
- Dixons Silver Springs Primary1.1 km 427 pupils, 472 places
- St. Peter's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy1.1 km 232 pupils, 210 places
- Gorse Hall Primary and Nursery School1.2 km
- Arlies Primary School1.3 km 178 pupils, 266 places
- Trinity School1.4 km 90 pupils, 121 places
- St Raphael's Catholic Primary School1.4 km 212 pupils, 236 places
An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).
Find and compare schools in England, on GOV.UKSource: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.
How far is the station from Stalybridge?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Stalybridge is Stalybridge Rail Station, 1.1 km away in a straight line.
- Stalybridge Rail Station Railway station 1.1 kmWalk
- Mossley (Manchester) Rail Station Railway station 3.1 kmCycle
- Ashton-under-Lyne Rail Station Railway station 3.2 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 Stalybridge?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Stalybridge, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Lockside Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Outstanding CQC report September 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 0161 303 7200 250 mWalk
- Staveleigh Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report May 2026 · Phone 0161 304 8009 850 mWalk
- St. Andrew's House Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report August 2022, over 3 years old · Phone 0161 338 3181 900 mWalk
- Millbrook Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report February 2024 · Phone 0161 304 2470 950 mWalk
- Grosvenor Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report December 2022, over 3 years old · Phone 0161 303 4313 1.1 kmWalk
Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
Is Stalybridge 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 Stalybridge. 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.
Crime around one postcodeSource: police.uk, from its download of 30 September 2026.
Who runs Stalybridge?
- Council
- Tameside
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Stalybridge and Hyde (613) and Ashton-under-Lyne (1)
- Police force area
- Greater Manchester
- 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.
Moving to Stalybridge
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.
- Tell Tameside about council tax Council tax, on tameside.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Stalybridge
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Find your rubbish collection day on GOV.UK
Stalybridge postcodes
614 postcodes in use in Stalybridge, by district:
That district is in the SK postcode area.
Check a Stalybridge postcode
Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.
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Places near Stalybridge
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Stalybridge's £220,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about Stalybridge
- What is the postcode for Stalybridge?
- Postcode district SK15, with 614 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- Which council is Stalybridge in?
- Tameside. Source: ONS.
- How much are houses in Stalybridge?
- A typical £220,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 253 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in Stalybridge?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include St Paul's CofE Primary School, Stalybridge, Wild Bank Primary School and Dixons Silver Springs Primary; secondary schools at its postcodes include Dixons Pennine Academy, West Hill School and Trinity School. Source: Department for Education.
- Does Stalybridge have a railway station?
- Yes: Stalybridge station, 1.1 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- What broadband can you get in Stalybridge?
- Ofcom reports on 607 of the 614 postcodes in Stalybridge. At 483 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
- Is Stalybridge at risk of flooding?
- 63 of the 614 postcodes in Stalybridge 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 576 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Stalybridge?
- 10 of the 614 postcodes now in use in Stalybridge came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 316 homes sold in Stalybridge were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the SK15 district, 0%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.
Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Environment Agency flood risk
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools
- Department for Transport: NaPTAN
- NHS England: NHS GP practices
- Care Quality Commission
- data.police.uk: police.uk
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This uses Care Quality Commission information.
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