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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.
Hard-wearing laminate and LVT dominate Oldham’s terraced and interwar homes, offering scratch-resistant durability for busy households on a sensible budget. In Saddleworth’s stone cottages and character properties, engineered oak in warm, rustic tones suits the exposed beams and traditional interiors typical of these Pennine village homes.
Warm, characterful tones ideal for Saddleworth’s stone cottages and beamed interiors.
Shop rangeWaterproof and hard-wearing for busy Oldham family kitchens and hallways.
Shop rangeAffordable, scratch-resistant flooring built for busy terraced households.
Shop rangeBetween the two censuses the clearest movement was in renting: private tenancies climbed from 12.2% to 17.7% while owner occupation slid from 64.9% to 60.4%, social renting barely changing at 21.2%. Turnover of that kind favours coverings that go down quickly and lift cleanly, section by section. The housing is dominated by rows, 38.5% terraced and 35.9% semi-detached, most of them built with suspended timber above ground level, boards that have shifted for decades and want screwing and levelling before a rigid plank will sit flat on them. OL1, OL2, OL4, OL8 and OL9 take in Alexandra, Coldhurst, Hollinwood, Medlock Vale, Chadderton Central, Chadderton North, Chadderton South, Royton North, Royton South, Crompton, Saddleworth North and Saddleworth South.
At the 2021 census, 12.3% of households in Oldham lived in a flat, maisonette or apartment and 87.6% in a house or bungalow — 38.5% of all households in a terraced house.
Tenure: ONS, Census 2021, Oldham (E08000004) · Accommodation type: ONS, Census 2021, OldhamThe same questions come up in every town we deliver to. These four references answer them once, with the source in each case.
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