What's the median rent in Manchester 018C?

The median monthly rent across Manchester 018C is £1,347.

How safe is Manchester 018C?

Manchester 018C has a safety score of 100/100 out of 100, where higher is safer.

How well-connected is Manchester 018C?

Transport score: 97/100. Combines public transit access and walkability.

Which neighbourhood is Manchester 018C part of?

Manchester 018C sits inside the Ardwick neighbourhood, in Manchester, North West.

Sub-area · Ardwick · Manchester · North West

Living in Manchester 018C

Part of Ardwick · 2,283 residents

Manchester 018C is a sub-area in Ardwick, Manchester that skews under 18 and social-rent dominant. Median rent sits at £1,347 a month, up 2.8% on the year, with council tax in band A adding roughly £193/mo. Safety ranks in the bottom decile of UK sub-areas (99th percentile nationally). Gigabit broadband reaches 100% of premises.

Median rent

£1,347+2.8%

vs last year

ONS Rent Index (PIPR) · Mar 2026

Liveability

100/100

Composite score

Safety

100/100

Higher is safer

Police.uk crime data · Feb 2026

Transport

97/100

Transit + walk

Schools

79/100

Ofsted-weighted

Broadband

100%

gigabit-ready

Ofcom Connected Nations 2025 · 2025

Who lives here

Age structure, tenure mix and dwelling type from Census 2021.

Age structure

Under 1831%

18–3425%

35–4923%

50–6415%

65+6%

Population2,283

Tenure & housing type

Owner-occupied25%

Private rent18%

Social rent57%

Flats25%

Terraced55%

Semi-detached15%

Detached5%

Detailed community breakdownHouseholds · ethnicity · religion · country of birth · health · qualifications

Household composition

One person32%Couple with children26%Lone parent18%Other10%

Ethnic mix

Diversity index 75.30

White22%Asian33%Black26%Mixed5%Other14%

Religion (Census 2021, voluntary question)

Christian30%Muslim46%No religion16%Other3%

Country of birth

Born in UK54%

Born outside UK46%

General health (self-reported)

Good81%Fair13%Bad6%

Disability prevalence18%

Education attainment (residents 16+)

Degree or above37%

Apprenticeship4%

No qualifications24%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (TS001 / TS006 / TS044).

Cost

An all-in monthly cost estimate for Manchester 018C comes to about £1,598 — combining rent, council tax (band A), and an EPC-based utility estimate.

Affordability score

92/100· 83rd percentile nationally

All-in monthly

£1,598

Rent + council tax + utility estimate

Median rent (any size)£1,347/mo+2.8%

2-bed median rent£1,212/mo

Council tax (estimated)£1,634/yr

Sale price (median)£177,500+3.9%

Price-to-earnings5.9×

Rent / take-home54%

EPC median bandC

Yield (gross BTL)8.2%

Detailed cost breakdownRent by bedroom & property type · sale prices · affordability

Rent by bedroom count

median monthly

1 bed£986/mo

2 bed£1,212/mo+2.8%

3 bed£1,404/mo

4 bed£1,987/mo

Rent by property type

median monthly

Detached£1,844/mo

Semi-detached£1,466/mo

Terraced£1,379/mo

Flat£1,128/mo

Sale price by property type

HPI average price

All properties (HPI avg)£251,461+3.9%

Detached£478,094

Semi-detached£328,996

Terraced£254,203

Flat£194,720+1.2%

Sales (Land Registry, lifetime)11

Lower quartile sale£156,972

Upper quartile sale£292,000

Affordability & running costs

Years to save 10% deposit3.0 yr

Mortgage (25y, 5%)£934/mo

Price / earnings (HPI vs ASHE)8.4×

Council tax — Band D billing£1,873/yr

Council tax — Band D incl. precepts£2,312/yr

Modal council tax bandA

Fuel poverty (LILEE)10.7%

EPC homes rated A/B13%

Source: Rent: ONS PIPR, May 2026. Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.

Property

EPC band distribution, council tax band mix and recent supply per 1,000 residents.

EPC median

C band

Modal council tax bandA

Completions / 1,00014.1

Detailed housing breakdownCouncil tax bands · EPC stock · supply pipeline

Council tax band distribution

1,040 dwellings · VOA CTSOP

Band A64%Band B30%Band C6%

Modal bandA

Total dwellings1,040

Band D — billing only£1,873/yr

Band D — incl. all precepts£2,312/yr

Estimated for this local area's mix£1,634/yr

EPC stock

Median EPC bandC

% rated A or B13%

EPC certificates lodged69

Housing supply pipeline

MHCLG, FY 2024-25, council-area level fanned to local area

Completions (annual)3,020

Starts (annual)420

Completions / 1,000 households14.1

Pipeline ratio (starts / completions)0.14

Source: EPC: MHCLG bulk download. Council tax bands: VOA CTSOP 1.1.

Safety

Greater Manchester Police don't publish to data.police.uk, so crime metrics for this local area are intentionally blank. Force-level summaries are still available from the Office for National Statistics.

How crime is measured

What's counted. Incidents recorded by territorial police forces and published to data.police.uk each month. Rates use the latest 12 months of data divided by the area's mid-2024 ONS resident population — so the figure is reported incidents per 1,000 residents per year.

Anti-social behaviour is the largest category in most areas and is worth reading carefully — it's a community-reports bucket (noise, rowdiness, nuisance), not "crime" in the legal sense. ASB and shoplifting are weighted lower than violent offences in the safety score on each page.

Caveats. The denominator is residents, so workday and tourist destinations can look worse than they feel for someone living there. Greater Manchester forces stopped publishing to data.police.uk in 2020, so figures for those areas are intentionally blank rather than misleadingly low.

ContextRates are per resident. As a major workday and tourist destination, the daytime population here is much larger than the resident base — so the per-resident figure overstates a typical resident's exposure.

Safety score

100/100· 99th percentile nationally

Total / 1k / yr0.999th percentile nationally

Violent / 1k / yr0.9

Burglary / 1k / yr—

ASB / 1k / yr—

Source: Crime: data.police.uk monthly counts, normalised by population. National avg = England + Wales population-weighted mean.

Transport

Distance to the nearest rail station, plus modelled commute time to a major employment centre.

Transport score

97/100· 93rd percentile nationally

Nearest rail717 m (Ardwick)

Nearest tube/metro1.7 km

PT to 5,000+ jobs hub—

Drive to 5,000+ jobs—

Detailed transport breakdownCity commutes · job accessibility · how residents travel to work

Commute time to major cities

public transport, off-peak typical

Manchester

9 min

Liverpool

45 min

Leeds

59 min

Sheffield

59 min

Birmingham

98 min

London

130 min

Bristol

195 min

Cardiff

197 min

Edinburgh

200 min

Glasgow

202 min

Job accessibility from this area

Minutes to reach N jobs by car / public transport

Drive — 100 jobs reachable7 min

PT — 100 jobs reachable10 min

Drive — 500 jobs reachable6 min

PT — 500 jobs reachable3 min

Drive — 5,000 jobs reachable7 min

PT — 5,000 jobs reachable10 min

How residents travel to work

Census 2021 mode share

Car37%Public16%Active21%WFH21%

Source: Rail: National Rail / TfL ATCO. Commute: DfT Journey Time Statistics.

Schools

Distribution of Ofsted ratings amongst schools serving this area.

School score

79/100

Outstanding—

Good—

Schools in catchment—

Nearest outstanding1.8 km

Detailed school breakdownFull Ofsted distribution · distances · catchment counts

Ofsted rating distribution

schools whose postcode falls in this local area

Outstanding (count)—

Good (count)—

Requires improvement (count)—

Inadequate (count)—

Schools within walking distance

Schools within 2 km30

Good or outstanding within 2 km11

% within 2 km that are good/outstanding37%

Nearest school285 m

Nearest good or outstanding905 m

Nearest outstanding1.8 km

Source: Ofsted school inspection ratings, latest inspection per school.

Jobs

Local jobs density and pay levels. Workplace pay reflects what jobs in this area pay; residence pay reflects what residents earn.

Jobs per resident0.82

Median salary£30,067/yr

Workplace salary£36,554/yr

Claimant count6.1%-0.2pp

Detailed jobs & earnings breakdownSector mix · pay percentiles · economic activity · occupations · qualifications

Jobs by sector

% of local jobs (BRES — figure is the same across all neighbourhoods in this council area)

Retail & hospitality

18.6%

Professional & business svcs

13.1%

Health & social care

11.7%

Education

9.6%

Tech & ICT

5.6%

Finance & insurance

5.5%

Manufacturing

2.7%

Construction

2.0%

Total jobs (latest)504,000

Jobs growth — 5 year+9.6%

Jobs growth — year on year+1.6%

Net commute flow452,371

Pay percentiles — what residents earn

ASHE residence analysis, gross earnings

Lower quartile (annual)£19,847/yr

Median (annual)£30,067/yr

Mean (annual)£35,180/yr

Upper quartile (annual)£43,368/yr

Median weekly£589/wk

Median hourly£16.80/hr

Pay percentiles — what local jobs pay

ASHE workplace analysis

Lower quartile (annual)£25,866/yr

Median (annual)£36,554/yr

Mean (annual)£43,450/yr

Upper quartile (annual)£51,351/yr

Median weekly£714/wk

Median hourly£20.40/hr

Economic activity (Census 2021)

ILO unemployment 11.3% · 16+ residents

ILO unemployment rate: 11.3% · 53% economically active — Unemployed as a share of the economically active population (employed + job-seeking), matching the ONS Labour Force Survey definition. Inactive residents are excluded from the denominator.

Employed47%Unemployed6%Inactive47%

Census 2021 TS066: all residents aged 16+ split into three non-overlapping groups. Inactive covers students, retirees, full-time carers and the long-term sick — together these bars always sum to 100%. The ILO unemployment rate above strips out inactive residents, giving a figure comparable to the national headline rate.

Working-age population1,336

DWP claimants (people)25,365

DWP claimant rate6.1%

Claimant YoY change-0.2pp

DWP claimant count tracks 16-64 residents on Universal Credit while seeking work, or Jobseeker's Allowance. It's narrower than Census "unemployed" (which includes anyone actively job-seeking, claiming or not) but updates monthly so it's the most current local indicator.

Occupation mix

working residents

Professional37%Service23%Manual26%

Qualifications

Census 2021, residents 16+

Degree or above37%

Apprenticeship4%

No qualifications24%

Source: ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings + Business Register and Employment Survey + DWP claimant count.

Connectivity

Share of premises with each broadband tier available, latest Ofcom Connected Nations data.

Gigabit availability

100%

Ultrafast (≥100 Mbit/s)100%

Superfast (≥30 Mbit/s)100%

Below USO (<10 Mbit/s)0.0%

Sub-2 Mbit/s0.0%

Broadband + mobile coverage detailGranular speed tiers · 4G / 5G indoor & outdoor

Fixed-line broadband — coverage by tier

Gigabit-capable100%

≥300 Mbit/s available100%

Ultrafast (≥100 Mbit/s)100%

Superfast (≥30 Mbit/s)100%

Below USO (<10 Mbit/s)0.0%

Sub-2 Mbit/s premises0.0%

Mobile coverage

Ofcom Connected Nations 2025

4G indoor — any operator100%

4G indoor — all operators100%

5G outdoor — any operator100%

Voice indoor — any operator100%

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations 2025, postcode-level coverage aggregated to local area.

Environment

Air quality (annual mean concentrations), flood risk, and walkable greenspace.

PM2.5 annual mean—

NO₂ annual mean—

Flood risk zone2

Greenspace within 300m38%

Parks within 1km2.8

Detailed environment breakdownGreenspace access · AHAH composite indices

Greenspace access (ONS, April 2020)

Distance to nearest greenspace347 m

Greenspaces within 1 km2.8

Combined greenspace area9.7 ha

Postcodes within 300 m of a park38%

AHAH — Access to Healthy Assets & Hazards

CDRC national percentile, higher = healthier neighbourhood

Overall AHAH

84 pct

Health services

14 pct

Green & blue space

71 pct

Air quality

93 pct

Retail hazards

79 pct

Source: Air: Defra UK-AIR PCM Background. Flood: Environment Agency. Greenspace: ONS access study (April 2020).

Healthcare

Walking distance to the nearest GP, hospital and dentist.

Nearest GP650 m

Nearest hospital925 m

Nearest dentist866 m

Fuel poverty10.7%

Detailed healthcare breakdownGP capacity · counts within walking distance · dental supply

GP supply

GP practices within 1 km9

GP practices within 3 km51

Patients per local GP5,589

Catchment concentration (HHI)1,321

Dental & hospital supply

Dentists within 3 km56

Dental UDA / 1k pop (ICB level)1375

Hospitals within 5 km6

Nearest urgent care925 m

Population health context

Self-reported good health81%

Self-reported bad health6%

Disability prevalence18%

IMD health sub-domain1.36

Source: NHS ODS / CQC Locations + nearest-feature distance from local area centroid.

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What's it like to rent in Manchester 018C?

Manchester 018C sits inside Ardwick, part of the wider Manchester council area in North West. Editorial copy will replace this scaffold once the team has reviewed the area in person — until then the data tabs above are the authoritative reference.

Strengths and trade-offs

Read the dimensional ranks above for the canonical view of where this sub-area excels and where it lags. Any qualitative spin should follow from those numbers.

Who is Manchester 018C for?

Renters most likely to thrive here are those whose priorities align with the area's strongest scores. The demographics tab gives the clearest read — age profile, tenure mix and household composition are usually the best predictor of who'll feel at home on which streets.

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Frequently asked

What's the median rent in Manchester 018C?: The median monthly rent across Manchester 018C is £1,347.
How safe is Manchester 018C?: Manchester 018C has a safety score of 100/100 out of 100, where higher is safer.
How well-connected is Manchester 018C?: Transport score: 97/100. Combines public transit access and walkability.
Which neighbourhood is Manchester 018C part of?: Manchester 018C sits inside the Ardwick neighbourhood, in Manchester, North West.

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