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Best areas to live in Manchester

An all-round ranking of the 42 Manchester areas Boroughly covers: safety, schools, transport and green space, with a nudge for value. If one criterion matters more to you than the rest, the map lets you re-weight it.

Ranked from Boroughly's Manchester dataset of 42 areas. Prices are postcode-district medians of HM Land Registry recorded sales; safety is a relative rank of police.uk recorded crime; rents and other scores are indicative - see how we source data. Use this to build a shortlist, not to make the final call.

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Prestwich

Bury · £300k to buy · £1,200/mo to rent · Safety 9.5/10, schools 8/10, transport 7/10

2

Didsbury

Manchester · £350k to buy · £1,350/mo to rent · Safety 10/10, schools 8/10, transport 7/10

3

Bury

Bury · £215k to buy · £1,100/mo to rent · Safety 9.7/10, schools 7/10, transport 7/10

4

Stockport

Stockport · £210k to buy · £1,150/mo to rent · Safety 9.5/10, schools 7/10, transport 7/10

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Altrincham

Trafford · £415k to buy · £1,400/mo to rent · Safety 9.8/10, schools 9/10, transport 7/10

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Whitefield

Bury · £275k to buy · £1,200/mo to rent · Safety 9.4/10, schools 8/10, transport 7/10

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Monton

Salford · £240k to buy · £1,250/mo to rent · Safety 9.7/10, schools 8/10, transport 6/10

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Bolton

Bolton · £192k to buy · £1,050/mo to rent · Safety 9.7/10, schools 6/10, transport 7/10

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Salford Quays

Salford · £200k to buy · £1,500/mo to rent · Safety 9.8/10, schools 6/10, transport 8/10

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Swinton

Salford · £240k to buy · £1,100/mo to rent · Safety 9.3/10, schools 7/10, transport 7/10

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Cheadle Hulme

Stockport · £370k to buy · £1,350/mo to rent · Safety 9.4/10, schools 9/10, transport 7/10

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West Didsbury

Manchester · £350k to buy · £1,350/mo to rent · Safety 10/10, schools 8/10, transport 7/10

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Heaton Moor

Stockport · £340k to buy · £1,300/mo to rent · Safety 9.8/10, schools 8/10, transport 7/10

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Burnage

Manchester · £278k to buy · £1,150/mo to rent · Safety 9.7/10, schools 7/10, transport 7/10

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Marple

Stockport · £315k to buy · £1,300/mo to rent · Safety 9.3/10, schools 8/10, transport 5/10

Rank it around your own life instead

This list weights the criteria one particular way. Yours will be different - a 40-minute cap on the school run, a must-have mosque, a hard budget ceiling. The map lets you set those and re-rank all 42 Manchester areas against them.

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