Broad Oak
Suburb · 36 residents
64Good
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
- Affordability scores 81, well above the typical 60
- 57% of residents live within five minutes of a park
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Road noise reaches 100% of the area
- Food & drink scores 39, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Broad Oak
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Broad Oak a good place to live?
Broad Oak scores 64/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (81) and environment (78).
It scores lowest on food & drink (39).
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 Broad Oak in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Broad Oak
Broad Oak doesn't look like most of Salford. Detached houses behind hedges, a handful of streets rather than a sprawl, and a quiet that comes from being a small, settled pocket rather than a through-route. It reads as a place people move to and then stay — the median age nudges 47, well above the national average, and that gives the streets a settled, unhurried feel rather than a young-professional churn.
The one school in view, Bridgewater School, is a fee-paying independent rather than a state option, which tells you something about who this area draws in: families who've already made their choices about education and are paying for them directly. There's no rail station in the picture here, so this isn't a commuter-belt sell in the obvious sense — this is a place you live in rather than live near something from. The housing picture reinforces that: the one recorded sale was a detached leasehold property at £580,000, sitting around the 92nd percentile nationally for price — a figure that puts Broad Oak well past Salford's typical £220,000 and into genuinely rarefied territory for the city. Leasehold on a detached house is slightly unusual and worth a question to any agent, since it's more often a flat arrangement elsewhere.
Green space data doesn't surface a named park here, but the area's grades sketch a consistent picture: environment, connectivity and health all sit comfortably above the national average, affordability is graded top-tier (unsurprising, given incomes here sit at the very top decile and deprivation is close to the bottom), and schools and housing trail slightly behind at the merely solid end. That's the quiet spine of the place — not a weak point so much as the one area that hasn't been polished to match everything else. Full-fibre broadband reaches the vast majority of homes, which matters more than it used to now that working from a detached house in a quiet suburb is a realistic daily pattern rather than an occasional treat.