Photo: Peter McDermott · CC BY-SA 2.0No police.uk crime data for Oldham
Greater Manchester Police doesn’t publish street-level crime to police.uk, and in 2026 it said it had no date to resume. Without it we can’t count crimes inside Oldham’s boundary, so Oldham has no Safety Grade and no overall grade.
Where to look instead
- Greater Manchester. The Home Office publishes police-recorded crime for each Community Safety Partnership (one per borough), and Greater Manchester Police publishes its own borough figures. Both count every crime in the whole borough, not inside the town, so they aren’t comparable with the town figures on other UK pages and we don’t use them to grade.
Oldham’s other subjects are graded on its home page. Oldham home →
11 people died in collisions on Oldham’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 526 collisions with injuries inside Oldham in five years, in which 11 people died (9 were pedestrians). 177 people were killed or seriously injured: 77 on foot and 16 on a bicycle.
That is 2.0 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more (1.1, 210 towns).
Counting serious injuries too, Oldham had 32.0 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents a year, about the same as the median for UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more (30.3). 44% of them were on foot, against 31% across UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more.
Casualties are counted where the collision happened, not where people lived: a main road through town adds through-traffic, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Seriously injured uses the Department for Transport’s adjusted figures, which even out the police forces’ different ways of recording injuries. There’s no national rate here: more than half of road deaths in England and Wales (58%) happen outside every town’s built-up area. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), 2021–2025.
Collisions police recorded inside Oldham’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Questions
Is Oldham safe?
We can’t say from police.uk: Greater Manchester Police doesn’t publish street-level crime data there, so Oldham has no Safety Grade. Greater Manchester Police’s own figures cover whole boroughs, not towns.
Sources: data.police.uk street-level crime, 36 months to August 2026, points inside the built-up-area boundary · Department for Transport road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions 2021–2025, points inside the built-up-area boundary. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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