Stockport
Town · 294,770 residents
71Very good
Very good · better than 7 in 10 towns
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- 67% of residents live within five minutes of a park
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Stockport
Cheadle Hulme70Reddish69Hazel Grove66Bramhall71Cheadle69Marple72Romiley67Gatley69Lane Head62Tarden64Benfield Clough62Bongs68
See all 68 in the guide ↓Map outline: Council boundary
Is Stockport a good place to live?
Stockport scores 71/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (75).
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 Stockport in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Stockport
Stockport town centre has that unmistakable mix of Victorian red-brick terraces, a market hall that's older than most cities' entire footprint, and a viaduct that dominates the skyline whether you like it or not. It's a proper town rather than a satellite dormitory — the kind of place with its own high street identity, its own grammar school, its own pull, even as Manchester's gravity sits right there on the doorstep.
The practical picture here is solidly middle-of-the-road in the best sense. With twenty rail stations serving the wider area and stops like Woodsmoor and Hazel Grove offering direct lines into Manchester, this suits someone who wants city-salary work without city-centre living. Schools follow a similar pattern — Stockport School posts a respectable positive Progress 8 score, Great Moor Infant and St Simon's Catholic Primary both carry Good ratings, and if you want Outstanding specifically you're looking toward Ladybrook Primary or, for secondary, Laurus Cheadle Hulme. None of this is spectacular, but a median age of 42 tells you who's actually settled here: people past the flat-share years, many with kids already in the system rather than just planning for one. Housing matches that story — semi-detached freeholds dominate the market here, the classic three-bed-with-a-garden that this age group buys and stays in, and at a median price of £295,000 you're sitting almost exactly on the national average, a touch below what the wider Stockport metropolitan area commands.