Chadderton Heights
Suburb · 87 residents
66Good
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
- 71% of residents live within five minutes of a park
- Transport scores 73, well above the typical 60
- Affordability scores 72, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Road noise reaches 77% of the area
- Food & drink scores 30, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Chadderton Heights
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Chadderton Heights a good place to live?
Chadderton Heights scores 66/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (81) and transport (73).
It scores lowest on food & drink (30).
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 Chadderton Heights in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Chadderton Heights
Chadderton Heights reads as semi-detached suburbia: privet hedges, parked Qashqais, a fair number of homes that have had the same family in them for years rather than new-build estates chasing first-time buyers. With a median age of 46.4, this is not a place dominated by twenty-something renters or young families just starting out — it skews toward people who settled a while back and stayed.
On paper, this is one of the more comfortable corners of Oldham without being exceptional nationally — an income and deprivation profile sitting a little above the middle of the pack, with council tax around £1,567 for a Band D property, slightly above the national median. House prices, at a median of roughly £318,750, actually sit higher than Oldham's borough-wide figure by a notable margin, and well above the typical price for this region — so you're paying a premium to be here rather than finding a bargain. The housing stock itself tells its own story: mostly semi-detached homes, split evenly between freehold and leasehold, which for a suburb this size often points to a mix of older conversions and flats alongside the standard three-bed semis. A "For Sale" board here is as likely to be a leasehold semi as a freehold one, so it's worth checking the detail before assuming you own the ground beneath you.