Chorlton Fold
Suburb · 345 residents
62Good
Good · better than 6 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
- 83% 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 98% of the area
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Chorlton Fold
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Chorlton Fold a good place to live?
Chorlton Fold scores 62/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (75).
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 Chorlton Fold in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Chorlton Fold
Chorlton Fold sits on the edge of Salford, the kind of place where the streets are more residential than retail — semis and terraces doing the talking rather than a parade of shops. It's not an area that announces itself; you get the sense of a place people settle into rather than pass through.
There isn't enough here to build a reliable picture of schools, stations, or crime for Chorlton Fold specifically, so it would be wrong to guess at the commute, the classroom quality, or how safe the streets feel after dark. What can be said with any confidence is the price frame: the wider North West region sits well below the national median house price, with Salford itself registering a median of £220,000 against a national figure well north of £280,000. If Chorlton Fold tracks its parent borough, as most of its neighbouring localities do, you're looking at a market that's considerably cheaper than the national picture and still below the regional average for detached and semi-detached stock.
Beyond that, the honest answer is that the detail isn't available for this specific pocket of Salford. Anyone weighing up a move would do better pulling a postcode-level search for Chorlton Fold itself — schools, transport links, and local crime figures all matter too much here to fill in with regional guesswork.