Local fact sheet
Oldham's homes, by the numbers
Oldham in the 2021 census: 93,140 households, 88% houses, 12% flats.
Terraces house two Oldham households in five, with semis at Chadderton and Crompton and older streets at Coldhurst, Alexandra, Hollinwood and Medlock Vale. Ownership has slipped by better than four points in a decade and private renting has risen to match.
Oldham’s housing runs from dense Victorian cotton-mill terraces and interwar semis to the sought-after gritstone villages of Saddleworth, Uppermill, Delph and Dobcross, where moorland-edge character homes command a premium. Buyers range from first-timers in Chadderton and Failsworth to families upgrading to Pennine stone properties.
Whoever lives there, the floor gets cleaned often, and cleaning damages more floors here than walking on them does. Water standing on a joint finds the core beneath the surface, and a board that swells from underneath cannot be dried out again.
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