Sholver
Suburb · 2,922 residents
46Fair
Fair · among the lowest-scoring 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
- 94% 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
- Food & drink scores 18, below the typical 60
- Health scores 38, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Sholver
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Sholver a good place to live?
Sholver scores 46/100 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 (18) and health (38).
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 Sholver in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Sholver
Terraced and semi-detached streets run close together here, the kind of housing stock built for mill workers and never quite outgrown — small gardens, brick fronts, cars parked tight to the kerb. It reads as a working suburb rather than a commuter dormitory, and the people you'll see are more likely heading to a shift than to a station platform.
The numbers back up that impression. Sholver sits in the second-poorest decile nationally for deprivation and the very lowest for income, and the property market tells the same story: a median sale price around £193,000, well under both the regional figure and the national one, in a street where semi-detached homes go for tens of thousands less than the national average for that type. Leasehold slightly edges out freehold in recent sales, which is worth checking carefully if you're buying rather than renting — ground rent and service charges can bite on older leasehold terraces. St Thomas Moorside CofE Primary, rated Good, is the visible landmark on the schools front, though with only one school logged for the immediate area and average Ofsted scores sitting right at the national norm, this isn't a suburb built around a cluster of outstanding options. Fourteen transport stops keep local buses moving, and connectivity scores well, but this reads as a bus-and-car suburb more than a rail one.