Clifton Green
Suburb · 4,217 residents
68Good
Good · better than 8 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
- 91% 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 92% of the area
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Clifton Green
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Clifton Green a good place to live?
Clifton Green scores 68/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (83).
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 Clifton Green in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Clifton Green
Terraced streets dominate here, red-brick and tightly packed, the kind of housing stock that was built for mill and factory workers and still carries that density today — this is a suburb where semis and terraces outnumber anything grander by a wide margin, and the look of the place tells you it was built to house people working nearby, not to impress anyone passing through.
The numbers back up what you'd guess from the economic geography: Clifton Green sits in the second-lowest decile nationally for deprivation and the very lowest for income, and a median house price around £195,500 — comfortably below both the North West average and the England-wide figure — confirms this is one of the more affordable corners of the country rather than a aspirational postcode. That said, it's actually pricier relative to its own patch than you might expect: homes here run about 6% below neighbouring Salford's median, not dramatically cheaper, so you're not getting a steep discount just for being in Clifton Green specifically. Housing has been flat for a while, not falling, not rising, just sitting there, which suits anyone who wants predictability over a speculative bet. A For Sale board on one of these streets most likely means a leasehold terrace or semi — the market here splits evenly between freehold and leasehold, with terraces and semis making up the bulk of sales and almost no new-build dilution, so what you view is what's been there for decades.