Ashton St Michael’s is an electoral ward in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside. It elects three Councillors to Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council using the first past the post electoral method, electing one Councillor every year without election on the fourth.

The population of Ashton St Michael’s is just greater than the Tameside average of 11,796 people. 64% of this population is between the ages of 16 and 64 years old, which is more than the borough average of 62%. Since 2013, all three of the wide age bands have increased in size by 100 to 200 people.

On average, 70% of adults in Tameside are employed, so the ward’s employment rate of 67.1% is below average for the borough, although the proportion of students is higher than the average value of 4.8%. The majority of properties in Ashton St Michael’s are owner occupied, with average market sale prices significantly below the Tameside average of £139,412. The percentage of private rented homes in Ashton St Michael’s is higher than the Tameside average of 14.2%.

Ashton St Michael’s is more deprived than the Tameside average; the IMD deprivation score for Ashton St Michael’s is 35.2, which is higher than the borough’s average score of 28.8. The proportion of children living in poverty in the ward, 30.0%, is above the Tameside average by just 0.5%. The total crime rate in Ashton St Michael’s is significantly greater than the Tameside average of 207.7 offences per 1000 people.