Moss Side
Suburb · 938 residents
53Fair
Fair · better than 2 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
- 4 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
- Road noise reaches 90% of the area
- Food & drink scores 30, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Moss Side
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Moss Side a good place to live?
Moss Side scores 53/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for transport (71).
It scores lowest on food & drink (30).
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 Moss Side in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Moss Side
Terraced streets dominate here, rows of Victorian brick broken up by the odd semi, and the overall feel is of a working suburb rather than a destination in itself. This is Moss Side in Rochdale rather than its better-known Manchester namesake, and it reads that way: dense, unpretentious, and priced accordingly.
The housing picture tells you most of what you need to know. Terraced houses are the dominant sale here, freehold outnumbers leasehold, and the median price of around £208,500 sits well below the national median and even under the regional one — this despite being nominally 9.7% above the wider Rochdale borough figure. A For Sale board here is advertising an entry point, not a trophy home, and sale prices across detached, semi, and terraced types all undercut their national equivalents, sometimes substantially. On schools, Moorhouse Academy carries a Good Ofsted rating, and St Peter's Church of England and Sacred Heart Catholic primaries serve the immediate area, though neither has a published rating in this data. Trams rather than trains do the heavy lifting on transport — Kingsway Business Park and Newbold Metrolink stops both sit in the mix, with eight transport stops in total feeding into Manchester's wider network, which matters if your working life points toward the city centre rather than somewhere requiring a mainline train.