Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 11,207 in Greater Manchester, North West.
Greater Manchester Police doesn’t publish street-level crime to police.uk, so Uppermill has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. Its other subjects are graded below. Its strongest subject is jobs & income (A): mean household income £55,225; 1.6% of 16 to 64s claim unemployment benefits. Its weakest is cost of living (D−): median sale £345,000, 8.2 years of area income; rent £942 a month.
The 3 things Uppermill 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 Uppermill is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Greater Manchester Police doesn’t publish street-level crime to police.uk, so Uppermill has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. Its other subjects are graded below.
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Historic England lists 96 buildings inside Uppermill’s built-up area, 2 of them Grade II*.
32% 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 Uppermill.
Social renters account for 7% of households. 12% rent privately, lower than both Greater Manchester’s towns (21%) and England’s towns (21%). Half of the 547 standard sales inside Uppermill’s built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026 went for more than £345,000.
| By type | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | £558,750 | 148 |
| Semi-detached | £355,000 | 145 |
| Terraced | £283,500 | 163 |
| Flat or maisonette | £182,000 | 91 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid · ONS private rents · MHCLG / Welsh Government council tax · ONS Census 2021 tenure · OGL
Some 2,693 pupils attend Uppermill’s six primaries and one secondary. Of its 7 schools, three are shown below, each with the reason. 69% of pupils at the town’s 6 primary schools met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (three-year average).
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greenfield Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 347 | B− |
| Saddleworth SchoolLargest secondary schoolSecondary | Secondary | 1,444 | B+ |
| St Anne's CofE Lydgate Primary SchoolTop results in townPrimary | Primary | 209 | A+ |
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
No town in Greater Manchester has more listed buildings for its size than Uppermill. Homes from before 1919 make up 32% of the total, above both Greater Manchester’s towns (20%) and England’s towns (16%). The town has 96 listed buildings on Historic England’s list: 2 Grade II*.
Historic England list, October 2026 · Valuation Office Agency, homes by build period · OGL
Line up the people of Uppermill by age and the one in the middle is 50.1. One measure of family life: 14% of residents are under 15, and on top of that people aged 15 to 24 make up 9.3% of the town, lower than both Greater Manchester’s towns (13%) and England’s towns (12%). Degrees are held by 43% of adults.
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
| Uppermill | Greater Manchester | England | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 14% | 19% | 18% |
| 15–24 | 9.3% | 13% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 19% | 28% | 27% |
| 45–64 | 31% | 24% | 25% |
| 65+ | 27% | 16% | 18% |
| No qualifications | 13% | 20% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship | 6.3% | 5.6% | 5.3% |
| A levels or similar | 17% | 17% | 17% |
| Degree level | 43% | 32% | 34% |
ONS Census 2021 · Greater Manchester and England: all residents of their built-up areas · OGL
Men in Uppermill can expect to live to 81.5, women to 86.4 (2019–23). 16% of residents have a disability, below Greater Manchester’s towns (18%) and England’s towns (17%) alike. One GP practice serves the town; 69% of patients rate theirs good in the GP Patient Survey.
| Census 2021 | Uppermill | Greater Manchester | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 83% | 81% | 82% |
| Bad or very bad health | 4.3% | 5.9% | 5.2% |
| Disabled (Equality Act) | 16% | 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 36% of workers were mainly at home; shares here are of those who travelled.
Driving is how 84% of commuters got to work at the census. 36% of workers worked mainly from home, above Greater Manchester’s towns (29%) and England’s towns (31%) alike. Jobs per working resident: 0.6.
ONS Census 2021, method of travel and distance to work · ONS small-area income · DWP claimant count · OGL
Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Uppermill. Best known first.
MuseumSaddleworth Museumin town
CastleBuckton Castle2 km outside town, to the south
Art galleryGallery Oldham4.3 km outside town, to the westChurchChurchSt Paul's Church, Oldham4.6 km outside town, to the westPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
96 listed buildings in Uppermill.
Huddersfield Narrow Canal, Lock No.23 (Lime Kiln Lock and Adjoining Tailbridge No.75 and Aqueduct No. 74): Photo: Dave Dunford · CC BY-SA 2.0 · The Royal George Canal Bridge: Photo: Christine Johnstone · CC BY-SA 2.0 · The Hare and Hounds Public House: Photo: Michael Fox · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Church of St Anne: Photo: David Dixon · CC BY-SA 2.0
The nearest built-up areas, from ONS’s 2022 boundaries. See them on the map →
| Town | People | Miles | Overall | Cost | Safety | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uppermill | 11,207 | — | — | D− | — | A− |
| Dobcross | 1,569 | 1.1 | — | D− | — | A− |
| Delph | 2,282 | 1.9 | — | D− | — | B+ |
| Mossley | 11,416 | 2.2 | — | D | — | C |
| Lees | 12,641 | 2.5 | — | D | — | C− |
| Stalybridge | 26,850 | 4.1 | — | D | — | D |
| Oldham | 110,722 | 4.2 | — | C− | — | D− |
| Shaw | 18,249 | 4.7 | — | D | — | C− |
Dobcross and Delph have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Dobcross, Delph, Mossley, Lees, Stalybridge, Oldham and Shaw have no Safety Grade: Greater Manchester Police doesn’t publish to police.uk. People: Census 2021. Miles: centre to centre.
That is 3.5 times the typical UK town for its size.
Surface water isn’t included. Check a specific address on GOV.UK’s flood risk service.
We can’t say from police.uk: Greater Manchester Police doesn’t publish street-level crime data there, so Uppermill has no Safety Grade. Greater Manchester Police’s own figures cover whole boroughs, not towns.
Town in Greater Manchester, England
Uppermill is a built-up area of 11,207 people, in the Oldham 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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