Bowlacre
Suburb · 496 residents
46Fair
Fair · among the lowest-scoring 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 71, well above the typical 60
- 92% of homes can get full-fibre broadband
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Health scores 24, below the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 37, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Bowlacre a good place to live?
Bowlacre scores 46/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (71) and infrastructure (70).
It scores lowest on health (24) and food & drink (37).
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 Bowlacre in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Bowlacre
Bowlacre is streets of semi-detached houses, gardens front and back, cars on the drive rather than the kerb — the kind of place that reads as settled rather than transitional. There's no high street buzz here to speak of, and that seems to suit the people who live on these roads: a median age pushing 47 tells you this isn't a place cycling through young professionals every couple of years, it's a place people stay.
The housing stock backs that up. Freehold semis dominate the sales here — sixteen of the last twenty-four sales, against a scattering of detached and terraced — and a For Sale board on this street is overwhelmingly likely to say "three-bed semi, own it outright." Prices sit a little above the wider Tameside borough, around 36% higher than the district median, though still comfortably below the national figure and roughly average for the North West. On schools, the picture is more mixed than the rest of the profile: the one sample secondary, Alder Community High School, is rated Requires Improvement with a negative Progress 8 score, which is the one grade in this file that doesn't match the surrounding pattern of B's — worth checking against other local options before you commit if schooling is a priority. Public transport is thin on the ground, just a couple of stops locally, so this reads as a driving suburb rather than a commuter-rail one.