North West

Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton

1st decile deprivation (IMD 2025) MEDIUM funding gap

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The numbers

What the data shows

Income deprivation: bottom 3.5%. Number of income-focused charities: 190.

English Indices of Deprivation / Charity Commission

1 GP for every 2,327 patients. The NHS England average is around 2,200.

NHS Digital General Practice Workforce (Feb 2026) and Patients Registered at a GP Practice (Mar 2026)

Blocked Britain episodes

Stories from Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton

Episode 19 · NHS / Healthcare

Imran's Story

In this episode of Blocked Britain, we meet Imran, a 27-year-old from Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton who wanted to train as a nurse to …

Local representatives

Your councillors

No councillor records have been loaded for Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton yet. Full data arrives after the May 2026 elections.

Deprivation profile

Index of Multiple Deprivation by domain

Rank out of 543 English constituencies. Lower rank = more deprived.

crime

49/543

Bottom 10%

health

88/543

Bottom 20%

income

23/543

Bottom 10%

housing

305/543

education

28/543

Bottom 10%

employment

36/543

Bottom 10%

environment

89/543

Bottom 20%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG), published October 2025. See methodology.

Resource analysis

Identified resource gaps

crime CRITICAL

Rank 49/543 for crime deprivation (IMD 2025)

No crime-focused charities in constituency

income HIGH

Rank 23/543 for income deprivation (IMD 2025)

190 income-focused charities, 1232 employees

employment HIGH

Rank 36/543 for employment deprivation (IMD 2025)

125 employment-focused charities, 958 employees

education HIGH

Rank 28/543 for education deprivation (IMD 2025)

393 education-focused charities, 3292 employees

health MODERATE

Rank 88/543 for health deprivation (IMD 2025)

303 health-focused charities, 2844 employees

GP ratio: 1:2327 (above 1:2000 threshold)

environment MODERATE

Rank 89/543 for environment deprivation (IMD 2025)

183 environment-focused charities, 1653 employees

Gap severity is computed from IMD 2025 domain ranks and Charity Commission data. See methodology.

Charity landscape

728 registered charities

728

Charities

£19,081,073

Grants to HQ'd charities

5,144

Employees

16,166

Volunteers

28.4%

Govt funded

MEDIUM

Funding gap

Grant funding is above the national median. Grant totals reflect money received by charities whose registered office is in this constituency. National charities headquartered here will inflate the total even if most of their work happens elsewhere; charities that serve this constituency but are registered elsewhere will not appear. Source: 360Giving GrantNav and the Charity Commission Register. See methodology for definitions and known limitations.

Largest charities by income

BOOTHSTOWN PROJECT COMMITTEE

THE ST STEPHEN'S COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION

WESTWOOD FORUM

REACHE NORTHWEST

MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST STAFF AMENITIES FUND

CLAYTON PLAYING FIELD & RECREATION GROUND

THE COCKCROFT AND WADSWORTH SCHOLARSHIP

115 staff

MIDDLETON CRISIS SUPPORT PROJECT

SHELTERWISE

MY SIDE

Healthcare capacity

GP and primary care

GP practices

FQ FTE GPs

1:2,327

Patients per FQ FTE GP

The NHS England average is approximately 2,200 patients per fully-qualified full-time equivalent GP (NHS Digital General Practice Workforce, February 2026; trainees, grant-paid and locum GPs excluded from the denominator). This constituency is 127 patients above that. See methodology.

Labour market

People working in Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton, by sector

Sector	Employees
NHS / Healthcare	15,000
Education	5,000
Construction	3,300
Social Care	2,550
Transport	1,500
Environment / Green	150

Employee jobs in each sector within this constituency. Workforce exists; the question is whether central government chooses to fund the posts. Source: NOMIS Business Register and Employment Survey (2024). Figures are rounded by ONS for disclosure control. See methodology.

Data sources & provenance

360Giving GrantNav [source]

Accessed 2026-04-08

NHS Digital / Commons Library GP Data [source]

Accessed 2026-04-08

Charity Commission Register [source]

Accessed 2026-03-31

English Indices of Deprivation [source]

Accessed 2026-04-10

ONS NOMIS Labour Market Statistics [source]

Accessed 2026-04-04

Charity Commission Annual Return Data [source]

Accessed 2026-04-10

Charity Commission Classification Extract [source]

Accessed 2026-04-08

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