Manygates Park
Suburb · 868 residents
75Very good
Very good · better than 9 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
- Food & drink scores 89, well above the typical 60
- 2 GP practices within a short walk
- 83% of residents live within five minutes of a park
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 43% 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
- Road noise reaches 42% of the area
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Manygates Park
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Manygates Park a good place to live?
Manygates Park scores 75/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for food & drink (89) and health (83).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Manygates Park in Yorkshire and The Humber, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Manygates Park
Manygates Park is terraces and low-rise flats packed close together, the kind of streetscape where you notice how tightly the housing sits against itself — over 1,600 people per square kilometre, well above the regional norm, and a place that reads as dense, working, and unpretentious rather than manicured.
The one school in the data, Methodist Voluntary Controlled Junior, Infant and Nursery, sits at the centre of family life here, though without an Ofsted rating attached you're going by reputation and word of mouth rather than a headline grade. There's no rail station recorded for the immediate area, so this isn't a commuter-belt pitch — it's a place you get around by bus stop and by car, with eight transport stops doing the daily work. Housing is where the story sharpens: flats and terraces dominate the sales sample, freehold outnumbers leasehold roughly two to one, and the median sale price of £125,000 sits at just the 5th percentile nationally — a fraction of the £281,000 national median and well under even Wakefield's own £195,000 benchmark, despite this being Wakefield-adjacent ground. A For Sale board here is advertising affordability first, and it shows: on the wider yardstick of income and deprivation deciles, this is one of the less well-off corners of the country, sitting in the bottom third nationally.
Green space is thin on the ground — two named spaces covering well under half a hectare between them, so this isn't an area built around park life, and your weekends will likely be shaped by what's beyond the immediate streets rather than within them. Full-fibre broadband reaches the vast majority of homes, which matters more day to day than it sounds. The safety picture is the one to sit with: violence and sexual offences make up close to forty percent of recorded crime, and the overall crime rate runs more than three times higher than the Wakefield average — a stark outlier against a set of grades that otherwise read comfortably as B+, from affordability to connectivity to housing. The trend, at least, is moving the right way, with safety marked as improving rather than static.