What's the median rent in Benchill North & Sharston?

The median monthly rent across Benchill North & Sharston is £1,347.

How well-connected is Benchill North & Sharston?

Transport score: — out of 100. Combines walking time to the nearest rail station, walking time to the nearest metro stop, and public-transport time to clusters with 5,000+ jobs. The nearest rail station is roughly 24 minutes' walk.

What schools are near Benchill North & Sharston?

There are 18 schools within 2 km of Benchill North & Sharston, of which 29% are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. The nearest Outstanding-rated school is approximately 953 m away.

What is the council tax band in Benchill North & Sharston?

The most common council tax band in Benchill North & Sharston is A, with the typical Band D annual charge around £1,596. Council tax is set by Manchester council and applies to every property in the area.

How long is the commute from Benchill North & Sharston to London?

By the fastest direct train, the journey from Benchill North & Sharston to central London is approximately 141 minutes. This is the fastest no-change rail journey from the local area centroid; door-to-door times will vary with walking time to the station.

Is gigabit broadband available in Benchill North & Sharston?

100% of premises in Benchill North & Sharston are gigabit-capable according to Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Most properties can already buy gigabit packages.

What is the deprivation rank of Benchill North & Sharston?

Benchill North & Sharston sits in IMD decile 1 of 10, where 1 is the most deprived 10% of local areas nationally and 10 is the least deprived. The Index of Multiple Deprivation combines income, employment, education, health, crime, barriers and environment.

What's the tenure mix in Benchill North & Sharston?

25% of households in Benchill North & Sharston are owner-occupied. The remainder is split between private renting and social housing — see the Demographics section for the full breakdown from Census 2021.

What is the average property price in Benchill North & Sharston?

The average property price across Manchester (the local authority covering Benchill North & Sharston) is approximately £251,461, per HM Land Registry's House Price Index. Per-local area prices vary; see the cost-of-living section for medians by property type.

Is Benchill North & Sharston a commuter town or workplace hub?

Mixed — jobs and residents are roughly balanced. (0.82 jobs per working-age resident. Median resident salary £30,067.)

Which local areas are part of Benchill North & Sharston?

Benchill North & Sharston contains 5 local areas: Manchester 049E, Manchester 049A, Manchester 049B, Manchester 049C, Manchester 049D.

What is the average rent in Benchill North & Sharston?

The estimated median monthly rent in Benchill North & Sharston is £1,347. This is derived from the council-area ONS rental figure scaled by the local sale-price gradient — see the Cost section for the breakdown by bedroom count and the affordability ratio against local salaries.

What schools are near Benchill North & Sharston?

29% of schools within 2 km of Benchill North & Sharston are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. The Schools section lists individual schools with inspection ratings.

How long is the commute from Benchill North & Sharston?

Public-transport commute time from Benchill North & Sharston to central London is approximately 141 minutes. The Transport section has commute times to every major UK city hub.

How is Benchill North & Sharston different from the rest of Manchester?

Benchill North & Sharston contains 5 sub-areas. The "Sub-areas" section below lets you drill into each one individually — they often vary by 20%+ on rent and demographics within the same neighbourhood.

Where does Benchill North & Sharston rank in Manchester?

Benchill North & Sharston scores 85/100 on our composite liveability index. To see how it stacks up against every other neighbourhood in Manchester, see the Cities table on the Manchester page.

Neighbourhood · Manchester · North West

Benchill North & Sharston

Manchester 049 · 5 sub-areas · 10,207 residents

Updated May 2026

Verdict

How are these scored? →

Best for Investors / BTL (66/100)Watch-out: Families (44/100)Liveability 85/100 · Top quartile

Benchill North & Sharston is a mid-density neighbourhood of Manchester in the North West region. It sits between busier and quieter parts of the local authority and isn't dominated by a single use — there's a mix of workplaces, housing and local services. The demographic profile leans family-aged, with a clear share of households with school-age children.

Median rent

£1,347+2.8%

vs last year

ONS Rent Index (PIPR) · Mar 2026

Crime / 1k / yr

—

GM via IMD proxy

Best hub commute

33 min

Direct to Manchester

Network Rail TTIS (CIF) · Apr 2026

Good schools 2 km

29%

18 schools within 2 km

Ofsted (spatial) · Feb 2026

Liveability

85/100

Top quartile

Population

10,207

5 sub-areas

ONS LSOA mid-2024 estimates · 2024

Overview

What's it like to live in Benchill North & Sharston?

A snapshot of Benchill North & Sharston

Greenspace is on the doorstep — a park or playing field is within walking distance of most homes; there's effectively nothing within walking distance — eating out, drinking and shopping mean a drive; Public transport is genuinely strong; most errands and a fair share of social life don't need a car; rents are roughly in line with the national norm, at around £1,347 a month for a typical home; gigabit broadband is effectively universal.

Generated from the latest May 2026 data · refreshed automatically

Figures are aggregated across 5 sub-areas — population-weighted means for rates, sums for counts. Sources cited beneath each section.

Benchill North & Sharston in Manchester

Cost

Cost of living

What does it cost to live here?

Rent runs at £1,347 a month — 22% above the national median. Council tax is most commonly Band A.

Median rentCouncil area

£1,347/mo

Up 2.8% on last year

+£247 vs nat'l avg

Total monthly baseline

£1,480/mo

Rent + council tax + indicative utilities

Council tax — modal bandCouncil area

Around £1,596/yr · £133/mo

Years to save 10% deposit

4.0 yr

Assumes saving 20% of gross salary

−20% vs nat'l avg

Rent — whole property and per room (sharing)2-bed: £1,212/mo · £606/room

By bedroom count

1 bedroom£986/mosolo only

2 bedrooms£1,212/mo£606/mo per room shared

3 bedrooms£1,404/mo£468/mo per room shared

4 bedrooms£1,987/mo£497/mo per room shared

By property type

Flat£1,128/mo

Terraced house£1,379/mo

Semi-detached£1,466/mo

Detached house£1,844/mo

Can you afford to live here?Rent as a share of take-home, four common living arrangements

Renting alone

Whole property, on the local median salary

64%

of take-home

£1,347/mo per person · take-home £2,097/moA stretch

Sharing a 2-bed

Half a 2-bed flat, on the local median salary

29%

of take-home

£606/mo per person · take-home £2,097/moComfortable

Sharing a 3-bed

One room in a 3-bed flat-share

22%

of take-home

£468/mo per person · take-home £2,097/moComfortable

Couple, two incomes

Whole property split between two earners on the local median salary

32%

of take-home

£674/mo per person · take-home £2,097/moTight but workable

Take-home is calculated from the median resident salary using UK 2024–25 income-tax + NI bands. Higher earners and dual-income households see lower percentages than the table shows; the median figures are a market benchmark, not a personal estimate.

Buying — affordability detail~£1,263/mo on a 25-year mortgage at 5%

Median sale price (Land Registry)£240,000

Average price (HPI, smoother)Council area£251,4613.9% YoY

Estimated monthly mortgage£1,263/mo

Gross rental yield (BTL)6.1%

Years to save 10% deposit4.0 years

Bills — council tax, energy, fuel povertyCouncil tax (Band D, all-in): £2,312/yr

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

Council tax — band-mix-weighted (typical home)Council area£1,596/yr

EPC median rating—

Homes rated A or B6%

Households in fuel poverty14.9%

Source: ONS PIPR (rent), HM Land Registry / HMLR HPI (sale prices), VOA + MHCLG (council tax), MHCLG EPC bulk download, DESNZ LILEE (fuel poverty).

Safety

How safe is Benchill North & Sharston?

Safety data is being processed for this neighbourhood.

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.

Crime / 1k / yr

—

Safety scoreHow? →

—

Higher is safer (national percentile)

Deprivation decile

1/10

1 = most deprived nationally · 10 = least

NoteCrime metrics for Greater Manchester are not published to data.police.uk following GMP's 2020 iOPS migration. The displayed crime score is a proxy derived from the IMD 2019 Crime Domain (national percentile rank, inverted). Treat as indicative only.

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.

Crime by category, per 1,000 residents per yearBar lengths show share of total recorded crime.

No breakdown data available.

Source: data.police.uk monthly counts (12-month rolling, normalised by ONS mid-year population). Greater Manchester values use IMD 2019 crime-domain proxy.

Transport

Getting around Benchill North & Sharston

Strong transport links — 94/100; nearest rail station is Gatley at around 1955 m; 56 bus stops within five minutes' walk; Manchester is reachable in 33 minutes by direct train.

Transport scoreHow? →

94/100

Best 10%

Best hub commute

33 min

Direct to Manchester

WFH share

16%

Census 2021 — work mostly from home

Nearest National Rail

Gatley

2.0 km walk · 33 min to Manchester

Nearest tube / metro / tram

Benchill

651 m walk · Manchester Metrolink

Commute by train to major UK hubsFastest: Manchester in 33 min

Londonapprox

141 min

Manchester

33 min

Birminghamapprox

108 min

Leedsapprox

84 min

Liverpool

97 min

Bristolapprox

205 min

Sheffieldapprox

69 min

Edinburghapprox

225 min

Glasgowapprox

225 min

Cardiffapprox

202 min

Walking time from the LSOA centroid to the nearest station, plus the fastest direct train from there. Routes that require a change of train are marked “approx” (haversine fallback).

How residents commute (Census 2021)16% work from home

Drive50%Public transport15%Walk / cycle14%Work from home16%

Method of travel to work for residents in employment, Census 2021 (TS061).

Broadband — gigabit available (1,000 Mbps) to most homesTop speed available: 1,000 Mbps · effectively universal

Top advertised speedCouncil area1,000 Mbps (gigabit)

Gigabit-ready (1,000 Mbps)Council area100% of premises

Ultrafast (≥300 Mbps)Council area100% of premises

Below USO (under 10 Mbps)Council area0.0% of premises

Outdoor 5G coverageCouncil area100%

Coverage from Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Top speeds reflect what's available to buy at the address; actual experienced speeds depend on the chosen package and provider.

Source: National Rail TTIS timetable (direct journey times), TfL Open Data + OSM (metros), Ofcom Connected Nations 2025, ONS Census 2021 (TS061).

Schools

Schools near Benchill North & Sharston

18 schools within a 2 km radius; around 29% rated Good or Outstanding — somewhat below the national norm; the nearest Outstanding school, Crossacres Primary Academy, is around 972 m away.

School scoreHow? →

74/100

Above median

Schools within 2 km

5 rated Good or Outstanding

% Good or Outstanding

29%

Of all schools within 2 km

−41.4 pp vs nat'l avg

Nearest Outstanding school

Crossacres Primary Academy

972 m from the centroid

Closest schools5 closest within ~5 km of the centroid

Name	Phase	Rating	Distance
Crossacres Primary Academy	Academy Converter	Outstanding	972 m
Gatley Primary School	Academy Converter	Outstanding	1.3 km
St Elizabeth's Catholic Primary School	Academy Converter	Good	1.5 km
Peel Hall Primary Academy	Academy Sponsor Led	Inadequate	1.6 km
Saint Paul's Catholic High School	Academy Converter	Good	1.6 km

Source: Ofsted school inspection ratings (latest inspection per school), spatially joined to the local area centroid via PostGIS.

Daily life

What's actually around Benchill North & Sharston?

OpenStreetMap counts of the things people use day-to-day — pubs, restaurants, parks, cinemas, supermarkets — within walking distance of the centroid.

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL). Counts derived via the Overpass API and refreshed monthly.

Eat & drink

Pubs0≤ 500 m
Bars0≤ 500 m
Restaurants0≤ 500 m
Cafés0≤ 500 m
Cuisine variety0≤ 1 km

Going out

Cinemas0≤ 2 km
Theatres1≤ 2 km
Museums0≤ 2 km
Galleries0≤ 2 km
Nightclubs0≤ 1 km

Practical & family

Supermarkets1≤ 500 m
Libraries0≤ 500 m
Parks1≤ 500 m
Playgrounds2≤ 500 m
Gyms0≤ 1 km

Getting around

Bus stops (close)56≤ 500 m
Bus stops (wider)56≤ 1 km
Rail stations0≤ 500 m
Tube entrances0≤ 500 m
Tram stops2≤ 500 m

Who it suits

Is Benchill North & Sharston right for you?

Six persona fit scores from 0–100 — each built from the metrics that group actually optimises for. Click through to the matching ranked list for the wider region.

Families

44/100

Mixed

Schools (29% Good+ within 2 km) and the family-age share fall below what most parents look for here.

See schools ranking →

Young professionals

65/100

Good fit

Transport scores 94/100 and gigabit broadband reaches 100% of premises.

See transport ranking →

Couples

56/100

Mixed

Rent, safety, or liveability falls below what most couples prioritise — worth comparing against nearby neighbourhoods.

See affordability ranking →

Retirees

61/100

Good fit

Healthcare is close (GP ~361 m, hospital ~0.7 km), greenspace is walkable, and 11% of residents are 65+ — an established peer group.

See safety ranking →

Investors / BTL

66/100

Good fit

Gross yield 6.1%, capital growth +3.9% YoY, 13% private-rented stock — strong tenant pool with reasonable demand and supply balance.

See earnings ranking →

Solo renters

56/100

Mixed

Rental stock or transit access fall short — easier neighbourhoods exist for solo renters who need flexibility.

See transport ranking →

How these ratings are built

Each persona has its own scoring model. We pick the metrics that group actually optimises for, then weight and curve them so realistic trade-offs are reflected — a great score in one factor can't fully paper over a poor score in another. Weights sum to 100 before any synergy bonuses.

Families

Families consistently prioritise schooling and a safe, settled neighbourhood, so those two factors carry the most weight and use a convex curve — mediocre values are penalised more than a simple average would suggest. A bonus is applied where good schools and low crime coincide.

Good+ schools within 2 km28%
Crime / safety score22%
Households with children15%
Greenspace proximity15%
Owner-occupation rate10%
Family-age population10%

Young professionals

Young professionals optimise for commute, connectivity and being around peers. Transport gets the largest single weight; broadband uses a concave curve so any decent gigabit coverage counts, and a bonus applies in well-connected, graduate-heavy areas (the classic urban knowledge-hub signal).

Transport / PTAL score27%
18–34 population share22%
Gigabit broadband coverage18%
Degree-educated adults14%
Crime / safety score12%
Private-rental availability7%

Couples

Couples without children weight liveability and day-to-day quality highest. Rent is on a sigmoid curve with a steep cliff between £800 and £1,400/month, reflecting how affordability flips from comfortable to stretched across that range. A bonus applies where the area is both safe and walkable.

Liveability composite25%
Crime / safety score22%
Transport / PTAL score18%
Median rent affordability17%
EPC energy efficiency10%
25–49 population share8%

Retirees

Retirees prioritise healthcare proximity, walkable greenspace and a settled neighbourhood with peers in the same life stage. GP and hospital distance are the largest weights — both use exponential drop-offs because needing care 5 km away is much worse than 1 km away, regardless of how many other amenities are nearby.

GP proximity22%
Hospital proximity18%
Crime / safety score18%
Greenspace proximity14%
Over-65 population share10%
Single-floor accommodation10%
Owner-occupation rate8%

Investors / BTL

Buy-to-let investors weight pure financial signals: yield, capital growth, tenant demand, supply pipeline and area job-growth. Crime and amenities only matter as far as they protect the tenant pool. Yield uses a sigmoid that rewards the realistic 4–7% band; pipeline penalises areas with heavy new-build supply that will pressure future rents.

Gross rental yield32%
House-price growth (HPI YoY)20%
Tenant demand18%
5-year jobs growth12%
Supply pipeline (inverse)10%
Safety score8%

Solo renters

Solo renters and students optimise for flexibility — depth of private-rental supply, peers in the same life stage and frictionless transit. Cost matters but the curve is gentler than for couples (no shared income). A nearby Tube/metro/rail station is heavily weighted because cars are usually off the table for this group.

Private-rental availability22%
Single-person households18%
Transit proximity16%
Median rent affordability14%
18–34 population share12%
Gigabit broadband coverage10%
Crime / safety score8%

Demographics

Who lives here?

Census 2021 snapshot: family-aged profile (31% under 18), 21% degree-educated, below the national average.

Age profile

Under 1831%18–3424%35–4920%50–6415%65+11%

Tenure

Owned25%Private rent13%Social rent61%

Households

One person25%Couple with children20%Lone parent25%Other8%

Property types

Flat18%Terraced28%Semi-detached47%Detached4%

Ethnic mix and country of birthDiversity index: 41/100

Ethnic group

White76%Asian7%Black8%Mixed4%Other3%

Country of birth

UK-born80%Born outside UK20%

Religion

Christian43%Muslim6%No religion43%Other3%

Education and health21% degree-educated

Degree-educated (16+)20.6%−12.9 pp vs nat'l

No qualifications30.5%

Self-rated good or very good health77.9%

Self-rated bad or very bad health7.9%

Disabled (Equality Act)22.8%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (TS001 / TS003 / TS004 / TS021 / TS030 / TS037 / TS038 / TS044 / TS061 / TS066 / TS067).

Employment

Work and income

balanced — local jobs roughly match the resident workforce (0.82 jobs per resident); median resident salary £30,067/year; 6.1% on the DWP claimant count.

Median resident salaryCouncil area

£30,067/yr

Workplace earnings of people who live here

Unemployment rate (ILO)

11.0%

ONS ILO method — 56% economically active (Census 2021)

Jobs in the council areaCouncil area

504,000

0.82 jobs per working-age resident

Working status of 16+ residents (Census 2021)ILO unemployment 11.0% · 56% economically active · 44% inactive

ILO unemployment rate: 11.0% — This uses the same methodology as the ONS Labour Force Survey: unemployment is expressed as a share of the economically active population (employed + job-seeking only), not all 16+ residents. Retirees, students, full-time carers and others who are “inactive” are excluded from the denominator, giving a like-for-like figure to the national headline rate.

Employed50%Unemployed6%Inactive44%

Census 2021 TS066. The three bars above share a denominator of all residents aged 16+ and always sum to 100%. "Inactive" covers students, retirees, full-time carers, the long-term sick and anyone not currently seeking work — which is why the raw employed% figure is lower than the LFS employment rate. The ILO unemployment rate above strips out inactive residents and matches the standard definition used in national statistics.

DWP claimant count: 6.1% of working-age (16-64) residents claim Universal Credit while seeking work or Jobseeker's Allowance. This is the live monthly unemployment proxy and is not directly comparable to the Census figures above — it counts a narrower group on a different denominator, but it's the most up-to-date local indicator.

Local job mix (BRES sectors, SIC 2007)Top sector: Retail & hospitality

Health & social

11.7%

Retail & hospitality

18.6%

Education

9.6%

Manufacturing

2.7%

Professional

13.1%

Construction

2.0%

Tech & ICT

5.6%

Finance

5.5%

Net commute flow: +452,447 jobs vs. working-age residents. More jobs than workers — net commuter inflow.

Source: ONS ASHE (resident salary), ONS Census 2021 TS066 (economic activity), ONS BRES NM_189_1 (jobs by sector), DWP claimant count.

Inside this neighbourhood

Sub-areas and postcodes in Benchill North & Sharston

5 sub-areas and 200+ postcodes. Tap any to drill in — hover previews on desktop.

Sub-area	Median rent	Liveability	Safety	Transport
Manchester 049E	£1,347	85	—	87	View →
Manchester 049A	£1,347	85	—	79	View →
Manchester 049B	£1,347	85	—	94	View →
Manchester 049C	£1,347	85	—	99	View →
Manchester 049D	£1,347	85	—	98	View →

Postcodes covered

In Manchester 049E

M22 0BA M22 0BE M22 0WJ M22 2BQ M22 2DN M22 2ED M22 2EH M22 2FT M22 4BA M22 4GT M22 4GY M22 4HS M22 4PB M22 4PD M22 4PE M22 4PF M22 4PG M22 4PH M22 4PJ M22 4PL M22 4PN M22 4PP M22 4PQ M22 4PR M22 4PS M22 4PT M22 4PW M22 4QU M22 4QX M22 4RB M22 4RF M22 4RH M22 4RL M22 4RN M22 4RP M22 4RQ M22 4RS M22 4RU M22 4RW M22 4RY M22 4RZ M22 4SA M22 4SN M22 4SW M22 4SX M22 4TY M22 4TZ M22 4UB M22 4UD M22 4UG M22 4UJ M22 4UP M22 4UR M22 4US M22 4UT M22 4UW M22 4UY M22 4WU M22 4WX M22 4WY M22 4WZ M22 4XA M22 4XN M22 4XS M22 4YD M22 4YQ M22 4YR M22 4ZA M22 4ZB M22 4ZD M22 5XF M22 9AA M22 9AF

In Manchester 049B

M22 4GA M22 4JZ M22 4NY M22 4PA M22 4PU M22 4PX M22 4PY M22 4PZ M22 4QA M22 4QY M22 4QZ M22 8AA M22 8AB M22 8AD M22 8AE M22 8AH M22 8BL M22 8DG M22 8DJ M22 8DL M22 8DQ M22 8DR M22 8DS M22 8DT M22 8DU M22 8DX M22 8DY M22 8DZ M22 8EA M22 8EB M22 8EE M22 8EH M22 8EN M22 8FA M22 8JR M22 8JS M22 8JT M22 8LB M22 8LD M22 8LE M22 8LF M22 8LL M22 8UA M22 8UB M22 8UD

In Manchester 049D

M22 4GJ M22 4GQ M22 4GR M22 4GS M22 4GW M22 4QD M22 4QG M22 4QL M22 4QN M22 4QP M22 4QS M22 4QT M22 4ZP

In Manchester 049C

M22 4QH M22 8JN M22 8JU M22 8JX M22 8JY M22 8JZ M22 8LA M22 8LG M22 8LN M22 8LP M22 8LS M22 8LW M22 8UE M22 8UG M22 9AJ M22 9AP M22 9AQ

In Manchester 049A

M22 8AG M22 8AJ M22 8AL M22 8AN M22 8AP M22 8AQ M22 8AR M22 8AS M22 8AT M22 8AU M22 8AW M22 8AY M22 8AZ M22 8BA M22 8BB M22 8BE M22 8BG M22 8BH M22 8BJ M22 8BN M22 8BP M22 8BQ M22 8BR M22 8BS M22 8BT M22 8BU M22 8BW M22 8BX M22 8BY M22 8BZ M22 8DA M22 8DB M22 8DD M22 8DE M22 8DF M22 8DH M22 8DN M22 8DP M22 8DW M22 8EJ M22 8EL M22 8FJ M22 8NA M22 8NB M22 8ND M22 8NE M22 8NF M22 8NG M22 8NH M22 8NJ M22 8NL M22 8NN

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FAQ

Frequently asked

What's the median rent in Benchill North & Sharston?: The median monthly rent across Benchill North & Sharston is £1,347.
How safe is Benchill North & Sharston?: Benchill North & Sharston has a safety score of — out of 100, where higher is safer. The score is the national percentile rank of police-recorded crimes per 1,000 residents per year, inverted.
How well-connected is Benchill North & Sharston?: Transport score: — out of 100. Combines walking time to the nearest rail station, walking time to the nearest metro stop, and public-transport time to clusters with 5,000+ jobs. The nearest rail station is roughly 24 minutes' walk.
What schools are near Benchill North & Sharston?: There are 18 schools within 2 km of Benchill North & Sharston, of which 29% are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. The nearest Outstanding-rated school is approximately 953 m away.
What is the council tax band in Benchill North & Sharston?: The most common council tax band in Benchill North & Sharston is A, with the typical Band D annual charge around £1,596. Council tax is set by Manchester council and applies to every property in the area.
How long is the commute from Benchill North & Sharston to London?: By the fastest direct train, the journey from Benchill North & Sharston to central London is approximately 141 minutes. This is the fastest no-change rail journey from the local area centroid; door-to-door times will vary with walking time to the station.
Is gigabit broadband available in Benchill North & Sharston?: 100% of premises in Benchill North & Sharston are gigabit-capable according to Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Most properties can already buy gigabit packages.
What is the deprivation rank of Benchill North & Sharston?: Benchill North & Sharston sits in IMD decile 1 of 10, where 1 is the most deprived 10% of local areas nationally and 10 is the least deprived. The Index of Multiple Deprivation combines income, employment, education, health, crime, barriers and environment.
What's the tenure mix in Benchill North & Sharston?: 25% of households in Benchill North & Sharston are owner-occupied. The remainder is split between private renting and social housing — see the Demographics section for the full breakdown from Census 2021.
What is the average property price in Benchill North & Sharston?: The average property price across Manchester (the local authority covering Benchill North & Sharston) is approximately £251,461, per HM Land Registry's House Price Index. Per-local area prices vary; see the cost-of-living section for medians by property type.
Is Benchill North & Sharston a commuter town or workplace hub?: Mixed — jobs and residents are roughly balanced. (0.82 jobs per working-age resident. Median resident salary £30,067.)
Which local areas are part of Benchill North & Sharston?: Benchill North & Sharston contains 5 local areas: Manchester 049E, Manchester 049A, Manchester 049B, Manchester 049C, Manchester 049D.

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Frequently asked about Benchill North & Sharston

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What is the average rent in Benchill North & Sharston?: The estimated median monthly rent in Benchill North & Sharston is £1,347. This is derived from the council-area ONS rental figure scaled by the local sale-price gradient — see the Cost section for the breakdown by bedroom count and the affordability ratio against local salaries.
What schools are near Benchill North & Sharston?: 29% of schools within 2 km of Benchill North & Sharston are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. The Schools section lists individual schools with inspection ratings.
How long is the commute from Benchill North & Sharston?: Public-transport commute time from Benchill North & Sharston to central London is approximately 141 minutes. The Transport section has commute times to every major UK city hub.
How is Benchill North & Sharston different from the rest of Manchester?: Benchill North & Sharston contains 5 sub-areas. The "Sub-areas" section below lets you drill into each one individually — they often vary by 20%+ on rent and demographics within the same neighbourhood.
Where does Benchill North & Sharston rank in Manchester?: Benchill North & Sharston scores 85/100 on our composite liveability index. To see how it stacks up against every other neighbourhood in Manchester, see the Cities table on the Manchester page.

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