Manchester

What is it like to live in Manchester?

Homes sold for a typical £264,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, up 6.3% on the 12 months before. At 9,819 of the 11,425 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 5,007 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 1,209 of its 12,125 postcodes. It has at least 120 primary schools, 33 secondary schools and 7 all-through schools at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Ardwick, 400 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

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Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in Manchester?

Homes in Manchester sold for a typical £264,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 3,313 sales, up 6.3% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

• Detached £350,000 112 sales
• Semi-detached £320,000 884 sales
• Terraced £259,000 973 sales
• Flat or maisonette £220,000 1,344 sales

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Across the whole M40 district, Manchester's main postcode district: a typical £226,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Manchester: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

Are new homes being built in Manchester?

565 of the 12,125 postcodes now in use in Manchester came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 206 of the 4,134 homes sold in Manchester were newly built (5%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the M40 district, 7%.

The newest postcodes

A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.

New homes among the homes sold

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

What broadband can you get in Manchester?

Ofcom reports on 11,425 of the 12,125 postcodes in Manchester. At 9,819 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is Manchester at risk of flooding?

1,209 of the 12,125 postcodes in Manchester have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 5,007 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026.

Which schools are in Manchester?

The open schools at the postcodes in Manchester (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.

An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).

Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

How far is the station from Manchester?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Manchester is Ardwick Rail Station, 400 m away in a straight line.

• Ardwick Rail Station Railway station 400 mWalk
• Manchester Piccadilly Rail Station Railway station 950 mWalk
• Manchester Oxford Road Rail Station Railway station 1.5 kmCycle
• Piccadilly (Manchester Metrolink) Underground, metro or tram 900 mWalk
• New Islington (Manchester Metrolink) Underground, metro or tram 1.1 kmWalk

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in Manchester?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Manchester, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

• Ardwick Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 0161 274 1500 300 mWalk
• Brunswick Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 0161 532 4141 300 mWalk
• Vallance Medical Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report March 2019, over 3 years old · Phone 0161 820 4030 300 mWalk
• West Gorton Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Outstanding CQC report June 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 0161 223 5226 1.2 kmWalk
• Ancoats Urban Village Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Outstanding CQC report October 2025 · Phone 0161 272 5656 1.3 kmCycle

Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

Is Manchester safe? Crime recorded around it

Greater Manchester's police force has published no crime figures to Police.uk for any month from September 2024 to August 2026, so we have none to show for Manchester. A count from Police.uk here would take in only the few crimes that neighbouring forces record nearby, so we show none rather than a figure that looks like a quiet area.

Source: police.uk, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Manchester?

Councils

Manchester (12,099), Stockport (9), Trafford (8) and 4 others

Parliamentary constituencies

Manchester Central (3,828), Manchester Rusholme (2,371), Blackley and Middleton South (2,169) and 7 others

Police force area

Greater Manchester

Region

North West

Country

England

Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?

Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.