Bamford
Suburb · 593 residents
54Fair
Fair · better than 3 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
- Affordability scores 82, well above the typical 60
- 52% of residents live within five minutes of a park
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Food & drink scores 38, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Bamford
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Bamford a good place to live?
Bamford scores 54/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (82) and environment (75).
It scores lowest on food & drink (38).
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 Bamford in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Bamford
Bamford reads as detached houses on quiet roads, hedges trimmed, cars on driveways rather than the kerb — the kind of streetscape where people move to stay, not to pass through. The median age here sits close to 48, nearly eight years above the national figure, and that shows in the pace of the place: fewer pushchairs, more people who've raised their families and settled in for good.
The numbers back up the impression. This is decile 9 for both income and deprivation — among the least deprived pockets of the country — and a median house price of £350,000 sits 84% above Rochdale's borough-wide figure, so a For Sale board here is pitched well above what the wider metropolitan district asks. Detached houses dominate the market, freehold is the norm over leasehold by roughly two to one, and there's no new-build churn to speak of — this is established stock, not a developer's estate. On schooling, Whittaker Moss Primary School carries a Good Ofsted rating, and with only one school actually inside Bamford itself, most households here are drawing on options in the surrounding area rather than everything being on the doorstep. Sixteen transport stops serve a population of just over 800, which points to decent local bus coverage even without a rail station named in the immediate patch.