How old is Andy Burnham?
He was born on 7 January 1970. On 1 June 2026 he is 56.
Is Andy Burnham married?
Yes. Public profiles state that Burnham is married to Marie-France van Heel.
What is Andy Burnham's net worth?
There is no official public net worth figure. Online estimates are not audited disclosures. The reliable public number is his mayoral salary, which Greater Manchester accounts have disclosed in the low six figures, with 2023 to 2024 listed at £118,000.
What is Andy Burnham's salary?
The Mayor of Greater Manchester role has been listed around £114,000 to £118,000 in recent public accounts. Burnham has also been publicly associated with donating part of his salary to homelessness work.
How tall is Andy Burnham?
No official height is published by the mayor's office or Parliament. Celebrity biography sites repeat estimates, but they are not reliable enough to treat as fact.
Where is Andy Burnham from?
He was born in Aintree, near Liverpool, and grew up in Culcheth near Warrington. He represented Leigh in Parliament from 2001 to 2017 and has served as Mayor of Greater Manchester since 2017.
What was Andy Burnham's family background?
Public profiles describe a working class family background. His father worked as a telephone engineer and his mother as a receptionist. His upbringing between Liverpool, Warrington and Leigh is central to how he talks about place and class.
What football team does Andy Burnham support?
Everton. He has often treated Everton, Labour and Catholicism as formative parts of his identity.
Is Andy Burnham rugby league or rugby union?
Culturally, Burnham is strongly associated with rugby league territory. He represented Leigh as an MP and has been linked with Leigh Centurions. That matters because rugby league is part of the working class civic culture of towns the programme is trying to rebuild.