Hooley Bridge
Suburb · 93 residents
63Good
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
- 78% of residents live within five minutes of a park
- Transport scores 74, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 14% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Health scores 37, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Hooley Bridge
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Hooley Bridge a good place to live?
Hooley Bridge scores 63/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (79) and transport (74).
It scores lowest on health (37).
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 Hooley Bridge in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Hooley Bridge
Hooley Bridge is a run of terraced streets in the Rochdale borough, tight-knit and unmistakably working, without much pretence about being anything else. It's a small pocket — the population here is barely into three figures in the data, which tells you this is a corner of a larger place rather than a place with its own high street identity. The housing stock is almost entirely terraced, and that consistency shapes everything else about how it feels to walk round: narrow frontages, on-street parking, an older industrial rhythm to the brickwork.
The practical picture is workmanlike rather than aspirational. There's one school in the immediate data, St Luke's Church of England Primary, a good-sized voluntary controlled primary with close to 400 pupils — a proper neighbourhood school rather than a token one. Transport gets an A grade despite modest stop numbers, which suggests what's there works efficiently for local journeys, though this isn't a place defined by rail commuting in the data available. Housing is where the story sharpens: nine in fifteen recent sales were leasehold, terraced homes dominate completely, and the median sale price sits at £137,000 — that's roughly half the regional median and well under a third of the national one. A For Sale board here is advertising affordability first, terrace living second, and not much else.