Street Gate
Suburb · 333 residents
50Fair
Fair · better than 1 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 73, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Road noise reaches 99% of the area
- Food & drink scores 17, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Street Gate
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Street Gate a good place to live?
Street Gate scores 50/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for property market (73).
It scores lowest on food & drink (17).
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 Street Gate in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Street Gate
Street Gate is dense in a way that surprises people who haven't been before — terraces and close-packed streets stacked into a small footprint, more like an inner-city pocket than the leafier parts of Salford further out. There's no pretence of suburban sprawl here; this is a tight, walkable grid, and the population density tells you as much before you've turned a single corner.
The practical picture is mixed in an interesting way. Median age sits around 30, a decade younger than the regional and national norms, which points to a working-age, possibly early-career population rather than a settled retirement spot. Dukesgate Academy serves the primary-age crowd locally, though no Ofsted rating is listed for it here, so it's worth checking current inspection status directly before weighing it heavily in a decision. There's no rail station in the data for this one, so if commuting by train matters to you, that's a question to ask rather than assume.
Green space is thin on paper — one plot totalling just over six hectares for the whole area — which is well below both the regional and national hectares-per-head benchmarks. That shapes the rhythm of life here: this isn't a place built around parks and long dog walks, it's a place built around its streets and its proximity to Salford's wider amenities. The flip side is connectivity: full fibre reaches the large majority of homes, and the connectivity and transport grades both come in above the national average, so getting online or getting around by bus and road is less of a struggle than the green space figure alone would suggest.