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Rochdale

1st decile deprivation (IMD 2025) MEDIUM funding gap
50
Blocked

What the data shows

Crime deprivation: bottom 2.6%. Number of crime-focused charities: 0.
English Indices of Deprivation / Charity Commission

Your councillors

No councillor records have been loaded for Rochdale yet. Full data arrives after the May 2026 elections.

Index of Multiple Deprivation by domain

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

crime
17/543
Bottom 10%
health
68/543
Bottom 20%
income
58/543
Bottom 20%
housing
117/543
education
43/543
Bottom 10%
employment
49/543
Bottom 10%
environment
155/543

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

Identified resource gaps

crime CRITICAL
Rank 17/543 for crime deprivation (IMD 2025)
No crime-focused charities in constituency
employment HIGH
Rank 49/543 for employment deprivation (IMD 2025)
103 employment-focused charities, 3172 employees
education HIGH
Rank 43/543 for education deprivation (IMD 2025)
315 education-focused charities, 4580 employees
income MODERATE
Rank 58/543 for income deprivation (IMD 2025)
156 income-focused charities, 2998 employees
health MODERATE
Rank 68/543 for health deprivation (IMD 2025)
257 health-focused charities, 4263 employees
GP ratio: 1:2120 (above 1:2000 threshold)
housing LOW
Rank 117/543 for housing deprivation (IMD 2025)
29 housing-focused charities, 469 employees
environment LOW
Rank 155/543 for environment deprivation (IMD 2025)
152 environment-focused charities, 1179 employees

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

612 registered charities

612
Charities
£16,066,386
Grants to HQ'd charities
6,285
Employees
13,356
Volunteers
33.9%
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

BUERSIL RECREATION GROUND
BOOTHSTOWN PROJECT COMMITTEE
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
MY SIDE
SHANNON'S HUB

GP and primary care

18
GP practices
53
FQ FTE GPs
1:2,120
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). See methodology.

People working in Rochdale, by sector

Sector Employees
NHS / Healthcare 7,000
Education 3,500
Social Care 3,000
Construction 2,300
Transport 2,050
Environment / Green 195

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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