Neighbourhood · 129 residents
Good · better than 6 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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Fielden Park scores 63/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (77).
It scores lowest on health (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 Fielden Park in North West, each measured against the national average.
Fielden Park reads as a settled, semi-detached and terraced suburb of Manchester — the sort of place where privet hedges outnumber For Sale boards, and the streets feel denser than you'd expect from the outside. That population density, well above both the regional and national average, tells you these are tightly packed rows rather than sprawling plots, but the green space holds its own against that: over fifty hectares split across five sites gives the area breathing room that plenty of similarly built-up suburbs lack.
House-hunters here are looking at a market that sits almost exactly on the national median, which is unusual for Manchester — this pocket runs nearly a third higher than the city average, so the "affordable Manchester suburb" reputation doesn't quite hold in Fielden Park itself. What you'll actually find on the ground is telling: terraced and flatted stock dominates the sales mix, more than three in five sales are leasehold, and yet semi-detached homes here fetch nearly £480,000 against a national semi-detached median of £273,000 — a sign that the handful of larger houses on offer command a real premium over the flats and terraces that make up the bulk of turnover. A leasehold flat board on this street says something different from a freehold semi two roads over, and both are common.
Schooling is thin on the ground by the numbers — only one school sits inside the immediate area — but the wider catchment carries some pedigree: St Wilfrid's CofE Aided Primary in Northenden and St Ambrose RC Primary both serve local families, alongside independent options like Moor Allerton Preparatory and Manchester Islamic Grammar School for Girls, which point to a mixed, faith-influenced schooling landscape rather than a single dominant state offer. Connectivity is solid rather than flashy — fifteen local transport stops and full-fibre broadband reaching most homes make it a reasonable base for hybrid workers, even without a rail station anchoring the commute.
The one figure that jars against the otherwise comfortable picture is health — graded noticeably behind the area's strong environment and connectivity scores, worth checking against your own priorities before you commit. Crime itself is low in absolute terms, though the local rate runs well above Manchester's borough-wide average, split evenly between violent offences and general crime rather than concentrated in one category. Put together, Fielden Park suits people who want established brick-and-hedge suburbia with genuine green space on the doorstep and don't need a mainline station to make it work — buyers should just look closely at tenure and property type before assuming the headline price applies to the home they actually want.
Safety isn’t scored here: street-level police data for the area is incomplete, so the overall score leaves it out.
Data last updated: 19 October 2026
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