Spring Gardens
Suburb · 534 residents
51Fair
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
- Property market scores 70, well above the typical 60
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Road noise reaches 97% of the area
- Food & drink scores 16, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Spring Gardens
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Spring Gardens a good place to live?
Spring Gardens scores 51/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for property market (70).
It scores lowest on food & drink (16).
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 Spring Gardens in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Spring Gardens
Spring Gardens is terraced streets, close-packed housing, and a population density that towers over the national average — this is a tight, urban-grained corner of Salford, not a suburb with room to breathe. The sample size is small and the picture correspondingly bare in places, but what's there tells a clear story.
On paper the overall grade sits at a comfortable B+, with connectivity, environment and housing all scoring well above the national average. Sit that against an income and deprivation decile of 1 — among the most deprived areas nationally — and you get the quiet spine of this piece: a place that *feels* functional and well-connected day to day, while sitting at the sharp end of the national income distribution. That contrast is worth holding onto rather than resolving.
Housing tells its own version of the same story. The one sale on record came in at £140,000 for a freehold terrace, against a national median north of £280,000 — Spring Gardens prices around 36% below its own parent authority of Salford, itself already one of the more affordable metropolitan districts in the country. Terraced, freehold, unglamorous: a For Sale board here is pitched at first-time buyers and landlords rather than anyone trading up from a semi. Rent, interestingly, runs slightly above the national median at £1,164 — a gap worth asking a local agent about, since it doesn't sit comfortably with the sale price.