Firgrove
Suburb · 560 residents
47Fair
Fair · better than 1 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
- 4 rail or tube stations within a short walk
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Road noise reaches 85% of the area
- Food & drink scores 24, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Firgrove
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Firgrove a good place to live?
Firgrove scores 47/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for transport (71).
It scores lowest on food & drink (24) and schools (38).
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 Firgrove in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Firgrove
Firgrove sits on the edge of Rochdale where terraces and semis run together along quiet residential streets, the kind of place where the housing stock looks solidly working-to-middle, nothing flashy, nothing falling down. It's a small suburb — fewer than 800 people — and it packs in at a density well above the national average, so this is a tight, close-built community rather than a spread-out one.
The property picture here is straightforward: semi-detached homes dominate, freehold is the norm, and at a median around £194,500 that's a fraction of the national figure and still below the regional one, even though it prices slightly above Rochdale itself. A for-sale board on this street is advertising a starter-to-second-rung home, not a forever mansion — semis and terraces together make up the bulk of recent sales, and the near-even split between freehold and leasehold tenure is worth checking property by property rather than assuming. For commuters, Kingsway Business Park and Newbold both put you on the Manchester Metrolink network rather than heavy rail, which suits a short hop into the city more than a long-distance commute. On schools, the picture is mixed: Moorhouse Academy carries a "Good" Ofsted rating, and Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Primary sits alongside it, but the area's overall schools grade is the one soft spot in an otherwise solid set of marks — worth a closer look if schooling is your priority.