Beamsmoor
Suburb · 28 residents
51Fair
Fair · better than 2 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 71, 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
- Health scores 16, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Beamsmoor
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Beamsmoor a good place to live?
Beamsmoor scores 51/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (71).
It scores lowest on health (16).
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 Beamsmoor in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Beamsmoor
Beamsmoor doesn't announce itself. There's no parade of shops to read the place off, no obvious centre — this is a small, quiet pocket on Stockport's fringe, semis and detached houses on streets that feel more spaced-out than the city numbers suggest, with a population you could fit into a couple of large apartment blocks. The people who end up here skew a little older than the national average, and the general impression is settled rather than transient — this doesn't feel like a place people pass through on the way somewhere else.
Two rail stations serve the area — Rose Hill and Middlewood — which for a place this size is a genuine asset if you're commuting into Manchester or across Stockport, and it goes some way to explaining the house prices: a median around £373,500 sits comfortably above both the national and North West figures, and about a quarter higher than Stockport's own borough-wide median. What you're buying is mostly freehold houses — terraces and semis dominate the local sales mix, with detached homes also changing hands regularly — so a for-sale board here is more likely to mean a proper garden and a mortgage on a whole house than a leasehold flat. On schooling, the one sampled institution, Windlehurst School, is a small community special school rated Good; it's not the full picture of provision locally, but it points to an area with some specialist educational capacity rather than the standard comprehensive-and-outstanding-primary combination you might expect elsewhere.