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It is a large town of 35,902 residents in Greater Manchester, North West.
Hyde’s strongest subject is walkability (B+) — nearly a fifth of commuters walk, cycle or take public transport. Prices are high against local incomes (D): the median home sold for £225,000, 5.4 years of area income. It lags on health as well (D): life expectancy 75.9 for men, 80.5 for women. Incomes are on the low side (C−): households earn a mean £42,229 a year, and 4.7% of 16 to 64s claim unemployment benefits.
Figures: commuting, Census 2021 · prices, HM Land Registry, the last three years · life expectancy and income, ONS · claimants, DWP. Greater Manchester Police doesn’t publish street-level crime to police.uk, so Hyde has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. Every other subject still has a grade below.
The 3 things Hyde 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 Hyde is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Greater Manchester Police doesn’t publish street-level crime to police.uk, so Hyde 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 28 buildings inside Hyde’s built-up area, 1 of them Grade II*.
29% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Hyde.
Private renters make up 18% of households. Owners make up 63% of households. The £225,000 median rests on 1,412 standard sales inside the built-up area (September 2023 to August 2026).
| By type | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | £390,000 | 219 |
| Semi-detached | £255,000 | 487 |
| Terraced | £187,250 | 576 |
| Flat or maisonette | £129,500 | 130 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid · ONS private rents · MHCLG / Welsh Government council tax · ONS Census 2021 tenure · OGL
Hyde’s ten primaries and two secondaries have 4,739 pupils between them. Godley Community Primary Academy’s results beat 83% of schools in England like it. Key Stage 2 results at the town’s 10 primary schools: 63% of pupils meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (three-year average). Below are three of its 13 schools, each with why it was picked.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flowery Field Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 646 | B |
| Hyde High SchoolLargest secondary schoolSecondary | Secondary | 1,134 | C− |
| Godley Community Primary AcademyTop results in townPrimary | Primary | 248 | A− |
79% of people in Hyde rate their own health good or very good. 4 GP practices serve the town; 72% of patients rate theirs good in the GP Patient Survey. Poor health, by residents’ own account, affects 6.4% of the town, and on top of that at the census, a fifth of people here had a disability, higher than both Greater Manchester’s towns (18%) and England’s towns (17%).
| Census 2021 | Hyde | Greater Manchester | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 79% | 81% | 82% |
| Bad or very bad health | 6.4% | 5.9% | 5.2% |
| Disabled (Equality Act) | 20% | 18% | 17% |
ONS Census 2021, general health and disability · OHID Fingertips, life expectancy 2019–23 · OGL · A young population flatters these answers, which are not age-adjusted; the Health Grade instead uses measures that allow for age, such as life expectancy and early deaths.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in lockdown, so 26% of workers were mainly at home; shares here are of those who travelled.
78% of commuters drove, above both Greater Manchester’s towns (72%) and England’s towns (70%). There are 0.6 jobs in Hyde for each resident in work. About 16% of its commuters stay in Hyde for work.
ONS Census 2021, method of travel and distance to work · ONS small-area income · DWP claimant count · OGL
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
Historic England’s list names 28 listed buildings in Hyde: 1 Grade II*. This Greater Manchester town has 8 listed buildings for every 10,000 residents, between Greater Manchester’s towns (7) and England’s towns (39).
Historic England list, October 2026 · Valuation Office Agency, homes by build period · OGL
Young adults of 15 to 24 are just over one in ten residents, below Greater Manchester’s towns (13%) and England’s towns (12%) alike. Hyde has a median age of 39.3. Under-15s account for 19% of the population.
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
| Hyde | Greater Manchester | England | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 19% | 18% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 13% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 27% | 28% | 27% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 24% | 25% |
| 65+ | 17% | 16% | 18% |
| No qualifications | 21% | 20% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship | 6.4% | 5.6% | 5.3% |
| A levels or similar | 18% | 17% | 17% |
| Degree level | 25% | 32% | 34% |
ONS Census 2021 · Greater Manchester and England: all residents of their built-up areas · OGL
Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Hyde. Best known first.
MuseumChadkirk Chapel2.7 km outside town, to the southMuseumMuseumAstley Cheetham Art Gallery1.7 km outside town, to the northMuseumMuseumPortland Basin Museum2 km outside town, to the northwestMuseumMuseumMuseum of the Manchester Regiment2.6 km outside town, to the northZooZooThe Garden House3.9 km outside town, to the southPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
28 listed buildings in Hyde.
Hyde Town Hall: Photo: Mikey · CC BY 2.0 · Former Theatre Royal: Photo: Izzak · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Church of St Stephen: Photo: Rept0n1x · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Peak Forest Canal, Manchester Road Canal Bridge: Photo: Gerald England · CC BY-SA 2.0
29 notable people were born in Hyde.
Lee Martin: Stew jones, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Luke Baines: Super Festivals, CC BY 4.0 · John Bramwell: Man Alive!, CC BY 2.0
The nearest built-up areas, from ONS’s 2022 boundaries. See them on the map →
| Town | People | Miles | Overall | Cost | Safety | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hyde | 35,902 | — | — | D | — | D |
| Dukinfield | 21,151 | 1.5 | — | D | — | D |
| Hattersley | 6,959 | 1.7 | — | D | — | D− |
| Denton | 36,005 | 1.9 | — | D | — | C− |
| Bredbury and Woodley | 17,044 | 2.4 | — | C | — | C− |
| Romiley | 10,902 | 2.7 | — | D | — | C |
| Broadbottom | 1,001 | 2.7 | — | D− | — | C |
| Audenshaw | 13,397 | 2.7 | — | D− | — | C− |
Broadbottom has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Dukinfield, Hattersley, Denton, Bredbury and Woodley, Romiley, Broadbottom and Audenshaw have no Safety Grade: Greater Manchester Police doesn’t publish to police.uk. People: Census 2021. Miles: centre to centre.
We can’t say from police.uk: Greater Manchester Police doesn’t publish street-level crime data there, so Hyde has no Safety Grade. Greater Manchester Police’s own figures cover whole boroughs, not towns.
Surface water isn’t included. Check a specific address on GOV.UK’s flood risk service.
Large town in Greater Manchester, England
Hyde is a built-up area of 35,902 people, in the Tameside 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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