Bagslate Moor
Suburb · 1,202 residents
65Good
Good · better than 7 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- Environment scores 75, well above the typical 60
- Affordability scores 74, well above the typical 60
- Transport scores 70, well above the typical 60
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Food & drink scores 25, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Bagslate Moor
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Bagslate Moor a good place to live?
Bagslate Moor scores 65/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (75) and affordability (74).
It scores lowest on food & drink (25).
Safety isn't scored here: street-level police data for the area is incomplete, so the overall score leaves it out.
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Bagslate Moor in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Bagslate Moor
Bagslate Moor reads as detached-house Rochdale: pebble-dashed semis and larger detached homes on quiet plots, the kind of streets where cars outnumber pedestrians and gardens matter more than doorsteps. It's a settled, older-skewing suburb rather than a young renters' patch, and it looks it.
The housing picture and the people in it fit together neatly. Detached homes dominate the sales here, freehold is the norm, and at a median around £260,000 it undercuts the national figure while sitting comfortably above the price typical for Rochdale as a whole — this is one of the borough's better-off corners, not its cheapest. Median age is a little over 46, well above the national average, which tells you this is a place people settle into rather than pass through; the schools reinforce that reading, with Caldershaw Primary rated Outstanding among a handful of academies of otherwise mixed or unrated inspection history. Public transport is modest — stops around the area rather than a rail station of note — so this suits someone who drives, or who's found a commute that doesn't depend on trains.
Green space is tight rather than generous: with under one and a half hectares logged across a couple of sites, this isn't a place built around parkland, and you'd look further afield in Rochdale for a proper walk. Broadband compensates somewhat, with full-fibre reaching most homes, useful if working from home is part of the plan. The crime figures are where the pattern breaks slightly: on the numbers logged, Bagslate Moor looks markedly safer than Rochdale overall, yet the single recorded incident falls under violence and sexual offences rather than the property crime you'd expect in a quiet suburb — worth noting, though the sample here is small enough that one incident swings the whole picture, so it's a data point to sit alongside the borough comparison rather than read alone. Overall the area's grading sits above the national average, dragged down only by a middling nightlife score — no surprise given the residential, low-density feel.