Irlams o' th' Height
Suburb · 6,317 residents
57Good
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
- 87% of residents live within five minutes of a park
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Food & drink scores 22, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Irlams o' th' Height
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Irlams o' th' Height a good place to live?
Irlams o' th' Height scores 57/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (75).
It scores lowest on food & drink (22).
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 Irlams o' th' Height in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Irlams o' th' Height
Irlams o' th' Height reads as solid terraced-and-semi Salford: brick streets, corner shops, a population dense enough that you're never far from a neighbour's front window, and an age profile that skews toward settled households rather than students or young sharers. It doesn't try to look like anywhere else, and it doesn't need to.
The housing picture tells most of the story. A median price of £247,500 sits close to the national flat average but is 16.5% above the wider Salford figure — this is one of the district's pricier corners, even though it still undercuts the North West's upper tiers. Semi-detached houses dominate sales, split almost evenly between freehold and leasehold, and that near-even tenure split is worth noting on any For Sale board: you'll want to check which you're getting before you fall for a semi near Light Oaks. Flats here sell for notably less than the national flat price, which tells you the flat stock is older conversion rather than new-build apartment blocks — there's no new-build activity at all in recent sales. For schools, families tend toward All Hallows RC High School for secondary, and there's a cluster of primaries — St Luke's RC, St John's CofE, Light Oaks Infant and Junior — giving real choice within the suburb itself, even without Ofsted ratings attached in this data.