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Home to 17,201 people, this town lies in Greater Manchester, North West.
Where it does best is jobs & income — mean household income £67,315; 1.5% of 16 to 64s claim unemployment benefits. Add schools to its strengths — primary results beat 93% of towns in England; secondary results beat 87% of towns in England. Homes are dear: homes sell for a median £499,750, about 9.7 times local household income. Its remaining grades are unremarkable: B− for walkability and B− for hazard risk.
Figures: income, ONS · claimants, DWP · prices, HM Land Registry, the last three years · commuting, Census 2021 · flood risk, Environment Agency. Greater Manchester Police doesn’t publish street-level crime to police.uk, so Bramhall has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. Every other subject still has a grade below.
The 3 things Bramhall does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compared with the 2,160 UK towns with an overall grade (schools within England), ordered by how far Bramhall is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Greater Manchester Police doesn’t publish street-level crime to police.uk, so Bramhall has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. Every other subject still has a grade below.
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Historic England lists 10 buildings inside Bramhall’s built-up area, 1 of them Grade I.
8% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town.
The archive holds 3 old photos and postcards going back to 1841.
Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Bramhall. Best known first.
Historic houseBramall Hallin town
MuseumHat Works2.6 km outside town, to the north
Historic houseAbney Hall3.1 km outside town, to the northwest
MuseumAnson Engine Museum3.9 km outside town, to the east
Historic houseAdlington Hall3.4 km outside town, to the south
MuseumAvro Heritage Museum1.7 km outside town, to the southPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Bramhall.
9% rent privately, below Greater Manchester’s towns (21%) and England’s towns (21%) alike. Council and housing-body homes hold 4% of households. Behind the median of £499,750: 764 standard sales inside Bramhall’s built-up area, September 2023 to August 2026.
| By type | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | £645,500 | 367 |
| Semi-detached | £410,000 | 223 |
| Terraced | £308,000 | 66 |
| Flat or maisonette | £275,000 | 108 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid · ONS private rents · MHCLG / Welsh Government council tax · ONS Census 2021 tenure · OGL
Three of its 5 schools are below, each with the reason it’s listed. Some 2,179 pupils attend Bramhall’s four primaries and one secondary. Attainment 8 at the 8 secondary schools within 3 km averages 53.1, and 58% of pupils get grade 5 or above in English and maths.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pownall Green Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 415 | A− |
| Bramhall High SchoolLargest secondary schoolSecondary | Secondary | 1,295 | B |
| Queensgate Primary SchoolTop results in townPrimary | Primary | – | A |
At the census, 4.2% of residents said their health was bad or very bad, below both Greater Manchester’s towns (5.9%) and England’s towns (5.2%), and a disability affects 16% of people in Bramhall. 3 GP practices serve the town; 83% of patients rate theirs good in the GP Patient Survey. Self-reported good health: 85% of the town’s residents.
| Census 2021 | Bramhall | Greater Manchester | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 85% | 81% | 82% |
| Bad or very bad health | 4.2% | 5.9% | 5.2% |
| Disabled (Equality Act) | 16% | 18% | 17% |
ONS Census 2021, general health and disability · OHID Fingertips, life expectancy 2019–23 · OGL · No age adjustment applies to these census answers, which flatter younger towns; the Health Grade’s measures, life expectancy and early deaths among them, do allow for age.
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
Bramhall’s listed buildings include Bramall Hall, Grade I. Homes from before 1919 make up 8% of the total, below Greater Manchester’s towns (20%) and England’s towns (16%) alike. Scaled to its population, that is 6 listed buildings for every 10,000 people here.
Historic England list, October 2026 · Valuation Office Agency, homes by build period · OGL
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in lockdown, so 47% of workers were mainly at home; shares here are of those who travelled.
For 41% of commuters, work was under 5 km away. 85% of commuters drove, above Greater Manchester’s towns (72%) and England’s towns (70%) alike. There are 1.1 jobs in Bramhall for each resident in work.
ONS Census 2021, method of travel and distance to work · ONS small-area income · DWP claimant count · OGL
People 65 and over make up 27% of the town. 17% are under 15, below Greater Manchester’s towns (19%) and England’s towns (18%) alike. Aged 15 to 24: nearly one in ten residents.
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Bramhall | Greater Manchester | England | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 19% | 18% |
| 15–24 | 9% | 13% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 19% | 28% | 27% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 24% | 25% |
| 65+ | 27% | 16% | 18% |
| No qualifications | 11% | 20% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship | 3.9% | 5.6% | 5.3% |
| A levels or similar | 14% | 17% | 17% |
| Degree level | 49% | 32% | 34% |
ONS Census 2021 · Greater Manchester and England: all residents of their built-up areas · OGL
10 listed buildings in Bramhall, 1 of them Grade I.
Bramall Hall: Photo: David Dixon · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Castle House: Photo: Dave.Dunford · CC BY-SA 4.0 · St Michael and All Angels Church: Photo: David Dixon · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Crocus Cottage, Benja Fold: Photo: Dave.Dunford · CC BY-SA 4.0
7 notable people were born in Bramhall.
Sacha Dhawan: German Comic Con, CC BY 3.0
The nearest built-up areas, from ONS’s 2022 boundaries. See them on the map →
| Town | People | Miles | Overall | Cost | Safety | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bramhall | 17,201 | — | — | D− | — | A |
| Cheadle Hulme | 24,782 | 1.2 | — | D− | — | A |
| Woodford | 2,241 | 1.8 | — | D− | — | A+ |
| Hazel Grove | 20,163 | 1.9 | — | D | — | B |
| Poynton | 13,015 | 2.2 | A | C− | A− | A |
| Cheadle | 14,437 | 2.4 | — | D | — | C |
| Stockport | 117,925 | 2.8 | — | C− | — | D |
| Gatley | 9,149 | 3.3 | — | D− | — | B |
Woodford has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Cheadle Hulme, Woodford, Hazel Grove, Cheadle, Stockport and Gatley have no Safety Grade: Greater Manchester Police doesn’t publish to police.uk. People: Census 2021. Miles: centre to centre.
GCSE results beat 87% of towns in England, and primary results beat 93% (Department for Education, Attainment 8 and Key Stage 2).
Homes cost more than in most UK towns: the median sale over three years was £499,750, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. By type: flats £275,000, terraced houses £308,000, semi-detached houses £410,000 and detached houses £645,500.
We can’t say from police.uk: Greater Manchester Police doesn’t publish street-level crime data there, so Bramhall has no Safety Grade. Greater Manchester Police’s own figures cover whole boroughs, not towns.
Town in Greater Manchester, England
Bramhall is a built-up area of 17,201 people, in the Stockport council area. TownRatings uses ONS’s 2022 built-up areas as towns: the physical town, as people mean the word, rather than a council district, so its figures cover the town itself.
Built from ONS geography and Census 2021
Sources: ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area · HM Land Registry Price Paid (standard sales, September 2023 to August 2026) · ONS Price Index of Private Rents (August 2026, by council) · MHCLG and Welsh Government council tax, Band D 2026–27 (with parish precepts in England) · data.police.uk street-level crime, 36 months to August 2026, points inside the built-up-area boundary · ONS small-area life expectancy and healthy life expectancy, 2019 to 2023 (England and Wales), OHID Fingertips small-area indicators (England) and Census 2021 health, adjusted for age · ONS small-area income estimates (financial year ending 2023) · DWP claimant count via Nomis (January to August 2026) · Historic England, National Heritage List for England (listed buildings, scheduled monuments, registered parks and gardens, battlefields, World Heritage Sites), October 2026, inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary · Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties by build period (31 March 2025) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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