Top-o-th' Hill
Suburb · 42 residents
68Good
Good · better than 8 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
- 4 GP practices within a short walk
- Affordability scores 71, 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
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Top-o-th' Hill
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Top-o-th' Hill a good place to live?
Top-o-th' Hill scores 68/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for health (75) and affordability (71).
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 Top-o-th' Hill in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Top-o-th' Hill
Top-o-th' Hill is the kind of address that gives itself away in the name: you're up above Stockport proper, in detached and semi-detached houses on quiet roads, and the streetscape has none of the terraced density you'll find lower down the valley. It's a small, settled pocket — barely 236 people call it home — and the median age of 54.5 tells you this isn't a place full of house-shares or young flat-hunters. It attracts people who've already done the moving around and have landed somewhere they intend to stay.
The practical picture here is unusually clean for such a small area. Every income and deprivation measure sits at the very top of the national scale, and that shows up in what's for sale: mostly semi-detached and detached homes, split more toward freehold than leasehold, with a median sale price of £430,000 — comfortably above Stockport's borough-wide figure and close to 46% higher than the parent authority average. Detached houses here fetch £535,000 against a national median nearer £420,000, so the premium is real and it's specifically a premium on space and privacy rather than on flats or new-build estates, of which there are none. Greave Primary School, rated Good, is the one educational landmark in the data, which fits a place with an older population and fewer young families cycling through.