Moorhey
Suburb · 2,431 residents
55Good
Good · better than 3 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
- 5 GP practices within a short walk
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Property market scores 36, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Moorhey
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Moorhey a good place to live?
Moorhey scores 55/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for health (84).
It scores lowest on property market (36).
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 Moorhey in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Moorhey
Terraced rows run close together here, dense enough that you notice how tightly the streets are packed — this is one of the more compact corners of Oldham, built for mill workers rather than modern parking needs, and it still reads that way. The population is young, with a median age under 28, and the streetscape has that slightly unfinished, working energy of a place where people are getting on with things rather than performing for visitors.
On paper the essentials split in two directions. Health outcomes here are genuinely strong, and connectivity holds up well too — full fibre reaches the vast majority of homes, which matters more than it sounds for a place this dense. But schooling is a weaker link: the sample includes Horton Mill Community Primary and Sapience Girls Academy, neither with a published Ofsted rating in this data, so you'd want to visit rather than assume. Oldham Mumps is the local station, giving you a way into Manchester without a car, though the area type sits firmly in commuter-suburb territory rather than destination-in-itself. Housing is where the story turns: a £150,000 median sits well below the national figure and even below the regional one, and it's cheaper again than the Oldham average itself. That affordability is real, but it comes paired with a C grade for housing quality — the terraces are what's on offer, overwhelmingly leasehold, and the sort of stock that needs a careful survey rather than a confident offer.