Hyde
Town · 35,818 residents
50Fair
Fair · among the lowest-scoring towns
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- 64% of residents live within five minutes of a park
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Food & drink scores 31, below the typical 60
- Schools scores 34, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Hyde
Gee CrossBackbower63GodleyKnott Fold45Newtonhurst48Bayleyfield MillFlowery FieldWalkerfoldShawhall46Bowlacre46Bradley Green52Newton
See all 21 in the guide ↓Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Hyde a good place to live?
Hyde scores 50/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (76).
It scores lowest on food & drink (31) and schools (34).
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 Hyde in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Hyde
Hyde reads as terraced-and-semi territory: redbrick rows climbing toward the Pennine edge, corner shops rather than chain coffee, and a population whose median age of 38.6 sits a little younger than the national norm. It's a working town rather than a commuter dormitory in the picture-postcard sense, though plenty of people here do both.
The practical picture is where Hyde makes its case. Five rail options serve the town — Newton for Hyde and Hyde Central among them — which is an unusually generous spread for a place this size, and the 266 local transport stops back that up with a connectivity grade that beats most comparable towns. Schools are the softer spot: with 14 schools and an average Ofsted performance that's weaker than the national benchmark, plus a secondary (Alder Community High) rated as requiring improvement and posting a below-par progress 8 score, this is the one grade in Hyde's otherwise strong-looking report card that stands out of pattern. Housing is the counterweight — a median price of £206,000 is comfortably under the national £281,000 and even sits modestly above its immediate Tameside parent (about 9% higher), with the five-year direction described as improving. Terraced freehold is the dominant story on any street here — 152 of the 239 recent sales were freehold, and terraces outnumber every other type — so a For Sale board in Hyde is most likely advertising a two-up-two-down you own outright, at prices still below national averages for the type.