Rochdale's trades, takeaways and salons, by the numbers.

Our searches of Rochdale led us to 49 homepages between 3 and 11 October 2026, of salons, barbers, tattoo studios, groomers and trainers whose own sites send visitors to Instagram. 35 homepages showed no online booking system, against 14 that showed one.

We have rung 9 Rochdale businesses on weekdays so far, between 21 and 30 September 2026. That is too few to split by answer without pointing at individual businesses, so the split stays off this page until it is larger.

Rochdale council's food register lists 321 takeaways or sandwich shops and 247 restaurants, cafes or canteens. For a takeaway, a missed call at teatime can be an order placed somewhere else, so it is worth knowing what yours add up to: the missed-call calculator needs only three of your own numbers. We have built 11 previews in the borough.

Rochdale's trades carry weight too: 170 electricians, 155 plumbing and heating firms and 180 garages, by the ONS figures. Any of them can check its own site against our 48 checks before deciding anything.

Rochdale borough takes in Middleton in the south, Heywood in the west, and Milnrow, Wardle and Littleborough up towards the Pennines. Its postcodes sit in BL9, M24, OL2, OL10, OL11, OL12, OL14, OL15, OL16 by the ONS Postcode Directory. Middleton addresses carry M24 and Heywood ones OL10, so a Middleton business counts here even though its postcode says Manchester.