Heald Green is a suburb of Stockport

Stockport

Stockport is a town in Greater Manchester, England. It lies on elevated ground southeast of Manchester city centre, at the point where the rivers Goyt and Tame join and create the River Mersey. Stockport is the largest settlement in the metropolitan borough of the same name...

, Greater Manchester

Greater Manchester

Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 2.6 million. It encompasses one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United Kingdom and comprises ten metropolitan boroughs: Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan, and the...

, England. It is situated in the south-west of the borough and is bordered by Gatley

Gatley

Gatley is a suburban area of the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, in Greater Manchester, England.-Toponymy:In 1290, Gatley was known as Gateclyve, which in Old English means "a place where goats are kept".-Early history:...

 and Cheadle

Cheadle, Greater Manchester

Cheadle is a suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport in Greater Manchester, England. It borders the districts of Cheadle Hulme, Gatley, Heald Green and Cheadle Heath in Stockport, and the East Didsbury area of Manchester. As of 2001 it had a population of 14,261.-Early history:There has...

 to the north, Cheadle Hulme

Cheadle Hulme

Cheadle Hulme is an area of the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, in Greater Manchester, England. It is southwest of Stockport and southeast of the city of Manchester. It lies in the Ladybrook Valley on the Cheshire Plain, and the drift consists mostly of boulder clay, sands and gravels...

 to the east, Handforth

Handforth

Handforth is a suburban area situated between Wilmslow, Heald Green, and Styal in Cheshire, England. Travelling south from Manchester, Handforth is the first place in Cheshire, although other areas nearer Manchester lie within the historic boundaries of the county.In the 1950s, two overspill...

 and Styal

Styal

Styal is a village in Cheshire East, England. It is on the River Bollin, near to the town of Wilmslow.Styal is a commuter village, with access to Manchester. The village is dominated by Quarry Bank Mill and much of its housing is the mill's estate. The mill and the surrounding country park are...

 to the south and Wythenshawe

Wythenshawe

Wythenshawe is a district in the south of the city of Manchester, England.Formerly part of the administrative county of Cheshire, in 1931 Wythenshawe was transferred to the City of Manchester, which had begun building a massive housing estate there in the 1920s to resolve the problem of its inner...

 to the west. It is approximately one mile from Manchester Airport.

Heald Green railway station

Heald Green railway station

Heald Green railway station is a railway station serving the suburb of Heald Green, in Cheadle, England.It is located on the Styal Line, which was opened in 1909 by the London & North Western Railway. The station is located between Gatley and...

 is on the Styal Line and is linked by a spur to Manchester Airport.

Famous residents have included world snooker champion Alex Higgins

Alex Higgins

Alexander Gordon "Alex" Higgins , also known by his nickname of Hurricane Higgins, was a Northern Irish professional snooker player who was twice World Champion and twice runner-up. Higgins earned the nickname The Hurricane because of his speed of play...

, Lancashire

Lancashire County Cricket Club

Lancashire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Lancashire in cricket's County Championship. The club was founded in 1864 as a successor to Manchester Cricket Club and has played at Old Trafford since then...

 cricket players Johnny Briggs

Johnny Briggs (cricketer)

Johnny Briggs was a left arm spin bowler for Lancashire County Cricket Club between 1879 and 1900 who still stands as the second-highest wicket-taker in the county's history after Brian Statham...

 and Clive Lloyd

Clive Lloyd

Clive Hubert Lloyd CBE AO is a former West Indies cricketer. He captained the West Indies between 1974 and 1985 and oversaw their rise to become the dominant Test-playing nation, a position that was only relinquished in the latter half of the 1990s...

, Sarah Harding

Sarah Harding

Sarah Nicole Harding is an English singer-songwriter, actress and model best known for being a member of the pop group Girls Aloud, formed through ITV's reality television programme Popstars: The Rivals...

 from Girls Aloud

Girls Aloud

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, Coronation Street

Coronation Street

Coronation Street is a British soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford. Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960...

's Simon Gregson

Simon Gregson

Simon Gregson is an English actor. He is known for being a cast member of the British soap opera Coronation Street in which he has played Steve McDonald since 1989....

, Manchester City player Paul Dickov

Paul Dickov

Paul Dickov is a retired Scottish footballer, turned manager who is currently in charge of League One side Oldham Athletic...

 and 1990s band Northern Uproar

Northern Uproar

Northern Uproar are an English rock band from Heald Green, Stockport. They formed in 1995 and initially disbanded in 1997. The band reunited in 2006 and are currently working on their fourth album. They released three albums and a number of singles, several of which charted in the UK Singles Chart...

.

Population

According to the United Kingdom Census 2001

United Kingdom Census 2001

A nationwide census, known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 29 April 2001. This was the 20th UK Census and recorded a resident population of 58,789,194....

 data, the Heald Green Ward has a population of 12,640, of which 6520 (51.6%) are females and 6120 (48.4%) are males. 2494 people (19.7%) are aged 16 and under, and 2409 people (19.1%) are aged 65 and over.

Heald Green compared
2001 UK Census United Kingdom Census 2001 A nationwide census, known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 29 April 2001. This was the 20th UK Census and recorded a resident population of 58,789,194....	Heald Green	Stockport	England
Total population	12,640	284,528	49,138,831
White	90.5%	95.7%	90.9%
Asian	7%	2.1%	4.6%
Black	0.4%	0.4%	2.3%

Ethnicity

Ethnic white groups (British, Irish, other) account for 90.4% (11,440 people) of the population, with 9.6% (1200 people) being in ethnic groups other than white.

Of the 9.6% (1200 people) in non-white ethnic groups:

• 144 (12%) belonged to mixed ethnic groups
• 881 (73.4%) were Asian or Asian British
• 47 (3.9%) were Black or Black British
• 128 (10.7%) were Chinese or Other Ethnic Groups

Religion

A break-down of religious groups and denominations:

• Christian - 77.1% (9741 people)
• Buddhist - 0.2% (23 people)
• Hindu - 1% (126 people)
• Jewish - 0.8% (106 people)
• Muslim - 6.1% (770 people)
• Sikh - 0.2% (20 people)
• Other religions - 0.3% (43 people)
• No religion - 8.3% (1089 people)
• Religion not stated - 5.7% (722 people)