Greenmount
Suburb · 202 residents
58Good
Good · better than 4 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
- Affordability scores 80, well above the typical 60
- Transport scores 71, well above the typical 60
- Environment scores 70, well above the typical 60
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Food & drink scores 23, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Greenmount
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Greenmount a good place to live?
Greenmount scores 58/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (80) and transport (71).
It scores lowest on food & drink (23).
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 Greenmount in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Greenmount
Greenmount looks like what it is: a small, well-kept pocket on the edge of Bury where detached houses sit on quiet roads and the pace is set by people who've mostly finished the school run years ago. There's no high street buzz here, no stretch of restaurants to wander — this is a place built around houses and hills, not footfall, and you feel that within a minute of arriving.
The numbers back up the first impression of comfortable, settled money. This is decile 9 for deprivation and the top income decile nationally, and the median house price of £372,500 runs well above both the regional average and the figure in Bury itself — about 64% higher than the wider borough. Detached houses dominate what sells here, though the tenure split leans slightly leasehold over freehold, so don't assume every board on the street means buying the ground beneath it too. A median age of 51.5, against a national figure closer to 40, tells you plainly who this suits: established households, not twenty-somethings starting out. Greenmount Primary School serves the immediate area as an academy, and nearby Holly Mount Roman Catholic Primary carries a Good Ofsted rating — solid, unspectacular schooling that matches a community more focused on space and quiet than on ambitious commuting. Transport is thin on the ground, a single stop rather than a station, so this works better for drivers than for rail commuters chasing Manchester.