Lower Moor
Suburb · 1,315 residents
91Excellent
Excellent · among the highest-scoring 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
- 7 GP practices within a short walk
- 100% of schools are rated Good or better by Ofsted
- 5 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
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Lower Moor a good place to live?
Lower Moor scores 91/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as excellent — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for health (88) and schools (85).
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 Lower Moor in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Lower Moor
Terraced rows and low-rise streets dominate here, tightly packed and mostly rented out rather than owner-occupied — the kind of streetscape that tells you this is a working suburb of Oldham, not a destination one. It's dense for its size, younger than the national average, and has the compact, no-frills feel of a place people live in rather than visit.
The numbers back up that read of a nationally disadvantaged area sitting inside a below-average regional price band — Lower Moor sits in the bottom decile for both deprivation and income nationally, and property here trades around 30% below Oldham's own borough median, which is itself far below the national figure. A terraced house is your most likely find, and leasehold is the dominant tenure by some distance, so if you're picturing a freehold semi with a garden, look at the semi-detached stock instead — it makes up a third of recent sales and prices closer to what you'd expect locally. Getting around is a genuine strength: Derker station gives you a Metrolink connection, stop density across the suburb is high, and full-fibre broadband coverage above 93% is well ahead of the national picture. Schools are the standout in the constellation — The Blue Coat CofE School, an Outstanding-rated secondary, sits in the area, and the overall schools grade is the highest mark this suburb earns, a genuine outlier against everything else in the picture.