[1] High Crompton is located very close to the M62 motorway and the southern boundary of the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale.

It is connected by road to the neighbouring large towns of Oldham and Rochdale.

Pencil Brook flows through the area towards the River Beal at Goats.

First Greater Manchester's 408 service runs from Buckstones to Stalybridge, via Shaw, Royton and Oldham.

From High Crompton, the service runs to Rochdale via Turf Hill.