Newton Moor
Suburb · 440 residents
52Fair
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
- 92% of homes can get full-fibre broadband
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Health scores 23, below the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 23, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Newton Moor
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Newton Moor a good place to live?
Newton Moor scores 52/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for infrastructure (70).
It scores lowest on food & drink (23) and health (23).
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 Newton Moor in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Newton Moor
Newton Moor is terraced streets and semis packed close together, the kind of place where front doors open almost straight onto the pavement and the density tells you this was built for working families rather than commuters wanting space. At under 40 median age, with semis and terraces making up most of what's for sale, it reads as settled rather than transient — people who've been here a while, not a revolving door of renters.
The housing picture is straightforward: freehold and leasehold sit almost evenly split, terraces dominate the sales, and at a median price around £222,500 this is noticeably cheaper than Tameside overall, even though it actually sells above the borough's typical £200,000 mark by over a tenth. Nationally it's among the more affordable corners of the country — comfortably below the typical English home — which keeps the "For Sale" boards attractive to first-time buyers rather than investors chasing new-build gloss (there's no new-build stock here at all). On schools, Yew Tree Primary carries a Good rating, and with nine schools reachable on foot, families aren't short of options close by, though Rayner Stephens High School's progress scores suggest secondary outcomes are a mixed picture rather than a selling point. Rail is thin — one station reachable within a short walk — so this reads as a bus-and-car suburb more than a rail commuter's base, even with over a hundred stops within easy reach.