North Levenshulme
Neighbourhood · 292 residents
50Fair
Fair · better than 1 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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Summary · written from the figures on this page
Rows of terraced Victorian streets, dense and tightly packed, dominate the streetscape here — this is one of the most densely populated corners of the North West, and it shows in the way houses press right up against each other with barely a gap for a driveway. It attracts a young crowd: the median age sits well below the national figure, and you'll see it in the pace of the place, prams and bikes rather than dog walkers ambling to the shops. This isn't a polished suburb dressed up for viewings — it's lived-in, a little rough at the edges, and unmistakably working.
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Is North Levenshulme a good place to live?
North Levenshulme scores 50/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
No topic reaches "very good" (70+); its best is infrastructure (66).
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 North Levenshulme in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of North Levenshulme
Rows of terraced Victorian streets, dense and tightly packed, dominate the streetscape here — this is one of the most densely populated corners of the North West, and it shows in the way houses press right up against each other with barely a gap for a driveway. It attracts a young crowd: the median age sits well below the national figure, and you'll see it in the pace of the place, prams and bikes rather than dog walkers ambling to the shops. This isn't a polished suburb dressed up for viewings — it's lived-in, a little rough at the edges, and unmistakably working.
Levenshulme station anchors the practical case for living here, putting the centre of Manchester within easy reach for anyone commuting in, which suits the younger, working-age profile the numbers point to. Schools are more mixed than the rest of the picture: Grange School carries an Outstanding rating, and St Richard's RC Primary is rated Good, but the area's overall schools grade lands only in the middle of the pack, so it's worth checking which catchment a specific street falls into rather than assuming quality is uniform. Housing is where the story sharpens — nearly all sales are terraced houses bought freehold, and at a median price well below both the regional and national averages, a For Sale board here reads as entry-level Manchester rather than aspirational suburbia. It's also priced beneath the Manchester-wide median, so relative to the city itself this remains one of the more affordable pockets.