Broadfield
Suburb · 39 residents
57Good
Good · better than 4 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
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Road noise reaches 99% of the area
- Food & drink scores 35, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Broadfield
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Broadfield a good place to live?
Broadfield scores 57/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (82).
It scores lowest on food & drink (35).
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 Broadfield in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Broadfield
Broadfield sits on the edge of Rochdale where the streets widen out and the houses get bigger — this is detached-house territory, mock-Tudor gables and gravel driveways, the kind of place where the cars on the drive tell you more about the street than the shopfronts do, because there aren't many shopfronts to speak of. It reads as settled rather than up-and-coming: people who moved here and stayed.
The numbers back up that impression of comfort. This is decile 8 for deprivation and decile 9 for income — genuinely among the better-off pockets of the North West — and a median house price sitting almost double Rochdale's borough-wide figure. Eleven recent sales, nine of them detached, nearly all freehold: a For Sale board here is advertising a family-sized house that someone bought outright and is now selling on, not a flat chain or a buy-to-let flip. At £375,000 median, it's below the national detached average but well above what the wider borough is paying, so you're buying into the quieter, wealthier edge of a town that is otherwise more affordable.
Day-to-day, the grades form a pattern worth reading as a whole rather than a scorecard: affordability tops out at A, housing, connectivity, environment and health all cluster in the B/B+ band, schools sit a touch behind at B, and the one visible dip is nightlife, down at C+. That's consistent with a suburb built for staying in rather than going out — good broadband (nearly three-quarters full-fibre), decent green space provision relative to the national average, and a median age of 44.5 that's older than both the national and regional norm. This is not a place full of twenty-somethings; it's a place full of people who've already done their twenties elsewhere and want a bigger garden now.