Sharston
Neighbourhood · 16,014 residents
60Good
Good · better than 5 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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- Road noise reaches 68% of the area
- Food & drink scores 33, below the typical 60
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Everyday life
The area
Around Sharston
Map outline: Approximate — electoral ward boundary, used as the nearest surveyed shape
Is Sharston a good place to live?
Sharston scores 60/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
No topic reaches "very good" (70+); its best is health (69).
It scores lowest on food & drink (33).
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 Sharston in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Sharston
Sharston is one of those pockets where flats, terraces and semis sit close together on a small grid, and the mix tells you it's a working suburb rather than a showpiece one — the kind of place with a builder's van outside one house and a to-let sign outside the next. There isn't a high street personality on offer here so much as a functional, densely packed residential patch, and that density (population per hectare running well above both the regional and national average) shapes everything else about how it feels to live here.
Money-wise, Sharston sits below the national and regional income and deprivation averages, landing in the more deprived third of areas nationally, though the property market doesn't read as run-down: the typical home is a leasehold semi or terrace, and a For Sale board here most often means a two-up-two-down or a flat conversion rather than a family detached house — only two of the recent sales sample were detached. Prices themselves are a mixed picture. Semis and terraces both sell for a touch more than the national typical figure for their type, but flats undercut the national flat price by some margin, and the overall median sits below both the Manchester borough figure and the wider North West. Against Manchester itself, Sharston's typical price runs a little lower, which for a leasehold-heavy, flat-and-terrace market is about what you'd expect.