Wardley

What is it like to live in Wardley?

Homes sold for a typical £221,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 57 of the 59 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 59 postcodes is on the Environment Agency's list of those with a home or business at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. It has 1 secondary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is The Poplars Medical Practice, 1.4 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Moorside, 450 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

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 Wardley?

Homes in Wardley sold for a typical £221,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 28 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £240,000 from 27 sales. With fewer than 30 sales a year, a change can come from which homes happened to sell, so we do not give one.

• Detached 2 sales, too few to price
• Semi-detached £240,000 13 sales
• Terraced £190,000 9 sales
• Flat or maisonette 4 sales, too few to price

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

Across the whole M27 district, Wardley's main postcode district: a typical £240,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Wardley: 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 Wardley?

None of the 59 postcodes now in use in Wardley came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 27 homes sold in Wardley were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the M27 district, 1%.

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 Wardley?

Ofcom reports on 59 of the 59 postcodes in Wardley. At 57 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 Wardley at risk of flooding?

None of the 59 postcodes in Wardley is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

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 Wardley?

There is no primary school at the postcodes in Wardley; these are the nearest to its middle. The secondary schools are at its postcodes. 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 Wardley?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Wardley is Moorside Rail Station, 450 m away in a straight line.

• Moorside Rail Station Railway station 450 mWalk
• Swinton (Manchester) Rail Station Railway station 1.3 kmCycle
• Walkden Rail Station Railway station 2.7 kmCycle

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 Wardley?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Wardley. These are the nearest to its middle, in a straight line. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

• The Poplars Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report March 2019, over 3 years old · Phone 0161 794 6237 1.4 kmCycle
• The Sides Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report July 2026 · Phone 0161 794 1604 1.5 kmCycle
• Silverdale Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report July 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 0161 983 0940 1.6 kmCycle

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

Is Wardley 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 Wardley. 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 Wardley?

Council

Salford

Parliamentary constituency

Worsley and Eccles

Police force area

Greater Manchester

Region

North West

Country

England

MP

Michael Wheeler (Labour)

All 59 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.