Electoral wardE05014520
Ashton St Michael's ward, Tameside
Ashton St Michael's is one of 19 electoral wards of Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council (North West). At the 2021 Census it had 12,684 residents in 5,314 households — 5,376 people per km², the 5th largest of the council's wards by population. It lies in the Ashton-under-Lyne constituency.
Residents, 202112,684council ward average 12,162
Households5,3142.39 residents per household
Density5,376/ km²about 2.36 km² · Tameside 2,239
Aged 65+13.6%Tameside: 17.5% · under 16: 21.9%
Census 2021
Age of residents
0–47.7% · 982
5–96.8% · 857
10–157.4% · 935
16–194.3% · 549
20–245.9% · 754
25–3415.5% · 1,963
35–4920.3% · 2,574
50–6418.5% · 2,342
65–747.6% · 963
75–844.5% · 567
85+1.6% · 197
Car or van availability
Share of households.
No car or van32.2% · 1,710
1 car or van44.2% · 2,349
2 cars or vans19.1% · 1,015
3 or more4.5% · 237
Census 2021
Housing tenure
Share of households; Tameside overall: 60.8% owned, 21.2% social rented, 17.6% private rented.
Owned outright26.7% · 1,418
With mortgage28.3% · 1,503
Shared ownership0.3% · 17
Social rented16.6% · 884
Private rented27.9% · 1,480
Lives rent free0.2% · 9
Type of home
Detached house7.7% · 409
Semi-detached house31.4% · 1,666
Terraced house47.2% · 2,509
Purpose-built flat10.8% · 576
Converted house1.7% · 90
Other conversion0.8% · 40
Above shop / office0.4% · 19
Caravan, mobile0.1% · 4
Electoral geography
Ward facts
- Ward code (GSS)
E05014520- Constituency
- Ashton-under-Lyne
- Region
- North West
- Density rank in council
- 1 of 19
Other wards in the same constituency
AAshton Hurst19.9% aged 65+ · 62.8% owned12,007AAshton Waterloo19.0% aged 65+ · 59.3% owned11,371AAudenshaw17.5% aged 65+ · 72.3% owned12,741DDenton North East19.6% aged 65+ · 66.2% owned10,478DDroylsden East17.0% aged 65+ · 61.3% owned12,065DDroylsden West17.1% aged 65+ · 68.4% owned11,849DDukinfield15.5% aged 65+ · 53.3% owned12,363DDukinfield Stalybridge22.3% aged 65+ · 59.1% owned12,040SSt Peter's12.2% aged 65+ · 33.4% owned14,589
Census 2021: Office for National Statistics via Nomis (TS001, TS006, TS007B, TS041, TS044, TS045, TS054) · ward lookups: ONS Open Geography Portal · Open Government Licence v3.0This ward was drawn after the 2021 Census: figures are built up from the 7 census areas (LSOAs) that ONS best-fits to it, so they are close estimates.