What's the median rent in Openshaw & Gorton North?

The median monthly rent across Openshaw & Gorton North is £1,347.

How well-connected is Openshaw & Gorton North?

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 6 minutes' walk.

What schools are near Openshaw & Gorton North?

There are 24 schools within 2 km of Openshaw & Gorton North, of which 49% are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. The nearest Outstanding-rated school is approximately 1635 m away.

What is the council tax band in Openshaw & Gorton North?

The most common council tax band in Openshaw & Gorton North is A, with the typical Band D annual charge around £1,626. Council tax is set by Manchester council and applies to every property in the area.

How long is the commute from Openshaw & Gorton North to London?

By the fastest direct train, the journey from Openshaw & Gorton North to central London is approximately 127 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 Openshaw & Gorton North?

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

What is the deprivation rank of Openshaw & Gorton North?

Openshaw & Gorton North 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 Openshaw & Gorton North?

34% of households in Openshaw & Gorton North 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 Openshaw & Gorton North?

The average property price across Manchester (the local authority covering Openshaw & Gorton North) 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 Openshaw & Gorton North 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 Openshaw & Gorton North?

Openshaw & Gorton North contains 6 local areas: Manchester 017E, Manchester 017H, Manchester 017J, Manchester 017D, Manchester 017G…

What is the average rent in Openshaw & Gorton North?

The estimated median monthly rent in Openshaw & Gorton North 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.

Is Openshaw & Gorton North a safe place to live?

Openshaw & Gorton North has a safety score of 100/100. The score is the national percentile rank of police-recorded crime per 1,000 residents, inverted so 100 is the safest 1% of England + Wales. The Safety section below shows the breakdown by category.

What schools are near Openshaw & Gorton North?

49% of schools within 2 km of Openshaw & Gorton North are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. The Schools section lists individual schools with inspection ratings.

How long is the commute from Openshaw & Gorton North?

Public-transport commute time from Openshaw & Gorton North to central London is approximately 127 minutes. The Transport section has commute times to every major UK city hub.

How is Openshaw & Gorton North different from the rest of Manchester?

Openshaw & Gorton North contains 6 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 Openshaw & Gorton North rank in Manchester?

Openshaw & Gorton North 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

Openshaw & Gorton North

Manchester 017 · 6 sub-areas · 11,821 residents

Updated May 2026

Verdict

How are these scored? →

Best for Couples (83/100)Watch-out: Solo renters (72/100)Liveability 85/100 · Top quartile

Openshaw & Gorton North is a green, lower-density part of Manchester — parks within walking distance of most addresses, a slower weekday rhythm, and a population skewed toward longer-tenure households rather than transient renters. 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

1.6

Best 5% nationally

Police.uk crime data · Feb 2026

Best hub commute

7 min

Direct to Manchester

Network Rail TTIS (CIF) · Apr 2026

Good schools 2 km

49%

24 schools within 2 km

Ofsted (spatial) · Feb 2026

Liveability

85/100

Top quartile

Population

11,821

6 sub-areas

ONS LSOA mid-2024 estimates · 2024

Overview

What's it like to live in Openshaw & Gorton North?

A snapshot of Openshaw & Gorton North

3 parks and 2 playgrounds are within five minutes' walk, so greenspace is reliably close at hand; The streets feel safe by national standards — police-recorded crime is well below the country-wide median; 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 6 sub-areas — population-weighted means for rates, sums for counts. Sources cited beneath each section.

Openshaw & Gorton North 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

£1,482/mo

Rent + council tax + indicative utilities

Council tax — modal bandCouncil area

Around £1,626/yr · £135/mo

Years to save 10% deposit

2.9 yr

Assumes saving 20% of gross salary

−42% 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~£909/mo on a 25-year mortgage at 5%

Median sale price (Land Registry)£172,750

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

Estimated monthly mortgage£909/mo

Gross rental yield (BTL)8.4%

Years to save 10% deposit2.9 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£1,626/yr

EPC median rating—

Homes rated A or B15%

Households in fuel poverty14.5%

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 Openshaw & Gorton North?

Safety scores 100/100 against the national distribution, with police-recorded crime running 61.9× safer than the national average (1.6 per 1,000 residents per year). Crime 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.

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

1.6

recorded incidents per 1,000 residents · 0 / month

Safety scoreHow? →

100/100

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.

Violent & sexual offences

1.1 /1k

Vehicle crime

0.5 /1k

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 Openshaw & Gorton North

Strong transport links — 95/100; nearest rail station is Gorton at around 519 m; 61 bus stops within five minutes' walk; Manchester is reachable in 7 minutes by direct train.

Transport scoreHow? →

95/100

Best 10%

Best hub commute

7 min

Direct to Manchester

WFH share

20%

Census 2021 — work mostly from home

Nearest National Rail

Gorton

519 m walk · 7 min to Manchester

Nearest tube / metro / tram

Edge Lane

1.0 km walk · Manchester Metrolink

Commute by train to major UK hubsFastest: Manchester in 7 min

Londonapprox

127 min

Manchester

7 min

Birminghamapprox

94 min

Leedsapprox

56 min

Liverpoolapprox

47 min

Bristolapprox

191 min

Sheffieldapprox

57 min

Edinburghapprox

202 min

Glasgowapprox

204 min

Cardiffapprox

193 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)20% work from home

Drive44%Public transport21%Walk / cycle12%Work from home20%

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 Openshaw & Gorton North

24 schools within a 2 km radius; around 49% rated Good or Outstanding — somewhat below the national norm; the nearest Outstanding school, Co-op Academy Belle Vue, is around 1610 m away.

School scoreHow? →

92/100

Best 10%

Schools within 2 km

12 rated Good or Outstanding

% Good or Outstanding

49%

Of all schools within 2 km

−21.0 pp vs nat'l avg

Nearest Outstanding school

Co-op Academy Belle Vue

1.6 km from the centroid

Closest schools5 closest within ~5 km of the centroid

Name	Phase	Rating	Distance
St Clement's CofE Primary School	Voluntary Controlled School	Good	503 m
Abbey Hey Primary Academy	Academy Sponsor Led	Good	745 m
St Barnabas CofE Primary Academy	Academy Sponsor Led	Good	789 m
Fairfield High School for Girls	Academy Converter	Good	1.2 km
Manchester Road Primary Academy	Academy Converter	Good	1.2 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 Openshaw & Gorton North?

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

Pubs3≤ 500 m
Bars0≤ 500 m
Restaurants1≤ 500 m
Cafés2≤ 500 m
Cuisine variety0≤ 1 km

Going out

Cinemas0≤ 2 km
Theatres0≤ 2 km
Museums1≤ 2 km
Galleries0≤ 2 km
Nightclubs0≤ 1 km

Practical & family

Supermarkets4≤ 500 m
Libraries0≤ 500 m
Parks3≤ 500 m
Playgrounds2≤ 500 m
Gyms1≤ 1 km

Getting around

Bus stops (close)61≤ 500 m
Bus stops (wider)61≤ 1 km
Rail stations1≤ 500 m
Tube entrances0≤ 500 m
Tram stops0≤ 500 m

Who it suits

Is Openshaw & Gorton North 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

73/100

Good fit

Schools rate modestly (49% Good+ within 2 km), rental turnover is higher than average, and safety scores above the median.

See schools ranking →

Young professionals

79/100

Great fit

Transport scores 95/100 and gigabit broadband reaches 100% of premises.

See transport ranking →

Couples

83/100

Great fit

Liveability 85/100, safety 100/100 and median rent at £1,347/mo combine to make this a comfortable choice for a couple.

See affordability ranking →

Retirees

72/100

Good fit

Healthcare is close (GP ~366 m, hospital ~4.1 km), greenspace is walkable, and 10% of residents are 65+ — an established peer group.

See safety ranking →

Investors / BTL

80/100

Great fit

Gross yield 8.4%, capital growth +3.9% YoY, 23% private-rented stock — strong tenant pool with reasonable demand and supply balance.

See earnings ranking →

Solo renters

72/100

Good fit

Private-rental stock is decent (23% PRS), 31% of households are single-person, and transit is on the doorstep.

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 (30% under 18).

Age profile

Under 1830%18–3423%35–4922%50–6416%65+10%

Tenure

Owned34%Private rent23%Social rent35%

Households

One person31%Couple with children19%Lone parent21%Other9%

Property types

Flat13%Terraced46%Semi-detached30%Detached5%

Ethnic mix and country of birthDiversity index: 63/100

Ethnic group

White54%Asian12%Black25%Mixed5%Other4%

Country of birth

UK-born65%Born outside UK35%

Religion

Christian50%Muslim15%No religion28%Other2%

Education and health26% degree-educated

Degree-educated (16+)25.6%−7.9 pp vs nat'l

No qualifications26.6%

Self-rated good or very good health80.9%

Self-rated bad or very bad health6.9%

Disabled (Equality Act)17.5%

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)

9.6%

ONS ILO method — 58% 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 9.6% · 58% economically active · 42% inactive

ILO unemployment rate: 9.6% — 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.

Employed53%Unemployed6%Inactive42%

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: +452,465 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 Openshaw & Gorton North

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

Sub-area	Median rent	Liveability	Safety	Transport
Manchester 017E	£1,347	85	—	98	View →
Manchester 017H	£1,347	100	100	99	View →
Manchester 017J	£1,347	84	—	92	View →
Manchester 017D	£1,347	85	—	97	View →
Manchester 017G	£1,347	85	—	92	View →
Manchester 017I	£1,347	85	—	92	View →

Postcodes covered

In Manchester 017I

M11 1AA M11 1AB M11 1AD M11 1AG M11 1AN M11 1AQ M11 1AR M11 1AS M11 1AU M11 1BJ M11 1BU M11 1EF M11 1FE M11 1LU M11 1NG M11 1NL M11 1NN M11 1NT M11 1NW M11 1NY M11 1PA M11 1WH M11 1WL M11 1WN M11 1WP M11 1WQ M11 2FE M11 2FP M11 2LB M11 2LD M11 2LE M11 2LF M11 2LG M11 2LH M11 2LL M11 2LR M11 2LS M11 2LX M11 2LZ M11 2NR M11 2NS M11 2NT M11 2PS M11 2SL M11 2WJ M11 2WL M11 2WP M11 2WQ M11 2WW

In Manchester 017G

M11 1AJ M11 1AT M11 1AY M11 1AZ M11 1BA M11 1BB M11 1BD M11 1BE M11 1BF M11 1BQ M11 1BS M11 1BW M11 1BX M11 1BY M11 1DA M11 1DE M11 1DF M11 1DH M11 1DJ M11 1DN M11 1DP M11 1DQ M11 1DS M11 1DT M11 1DU M11 1DW M11 1DX M11 1DY M11 1ED M11 1EE M11 1FH M11 1FN M11 1FW M11 1FY M11 1FZ M11 1GD M11 1GE M11 1GG M11 1GH M11 1GY M11 1JJ M11 1LW

In Manchester 017H

M11 1BT M11 1DR M11 1EW M11 1GP M11 1GZ M11 1JD M11 1JE M11 1JG M11 1JH M11 1JP M11 1JS M11 1JT M11 1JU M11 1JZ M11 1LB M11 1LD M11 1LE M11 1LG M11 1LH M11 1LJ M11 1LL M11 1LN M11 1LQ M11 1LT M11 1LY M11 1NA M11 1NB M11 1ND M11 1NH M11 1NP M11 1NR M11 1NU M11 1NX M11 1PU M11 1PW M11 1PX M11 1QA M11 1QB M11 1QD M11 1QE M11 1QF M11 1QG M11 1WF M11 1WG M11 1WR M11 1WS M11 1WT M11 1WU M11 1WW M11 1WX M11 2EN M11 2LW

In Manchester 017J

M11 1EQ M11 1ER M11 1ET M11 1EY M11 1EZ M11 1FQ M11 1GN M11 1GR M11 1GS M11 1GT M11 1GU M11 1GW M11 1GX M11 1HF M11 1HG M11 1HH M11 1HJ M11 1HL M11 1HN M11 1HQ M11 1HR M11 1HS M11 1HT M11 1HU M11 1HW M11 1HX M11 1HY M11 1HZ M11 1JR M11 1JW M11 1JX M11 1JY M11 1LA M11 1LP M11 1LR M11 1LS M11 1LZ M11 1NE M11 1NF M11 1PB M11 1PE M11 1PG M11 1PL M11 1PN M11 1PQ M11 1PR M11 1PS

In Manchester 017D

M18 8AN M18 8AP M18 8AQ M18 8AS M18 8AT M18 8AW M18 8AX M18 8AY M18 8AZ M18 8BE

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What's the median rent in Openshaw & Gorton North?: The median monthly rent across Openshaw & Gorton North is £1,347.
How safe is Openshaw & Gorton North?: Openshaw & Gorton North 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 Openshaw & Gorton North?: 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 6 minutes' walk.
What schools are near Openshaw & Gorton North?: There are 24 schools within 2 km of Openshaw & Gorton North, of which 49% are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. The nearest Outstanding-rated school is approximately 1635 m away.
What is the council tax band in Openshaw & Gorton North?: The most common council tax band in Openshaw & Gorton North is A, with the typical Band D annual charge around £1,626. Council tax is set by Manchester council and applies to every property in the area.
How long is the commute from Openshaw & Gorton North to London?: By the fastest direct train, the journey from Openshaw & Gorton North to central London is approximately 127 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 Openshaw & Gorton North?: 100% of premises in Openshaw & Gorton North are gigabit-capable according to Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Most properties can already buy gigabit packages.
What is the deprivation rank of Openshaw & Gorton North?: Openshaw & Gorton North 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 Openshaw & Gorton North?: 34% of households in Openshaw & Gorton North 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 Openshaw & Gorton North?: The average property price across Manchester (the local authority covering Openshaw & Gorton North) 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 Openshaw & Gorton North 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 Openshaw & Gorton North?: Openshaw & Gorton North contains 6 local areas: Manchester 017E, Manchester 017H, Manchester 017J, Manchester 017D, Manchester 017G…

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What is the average rent in Openshaw & Gorton North?: The estimated median monthly rent in Openshaw & Gorton North 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.
Is Openshaw & Gorton North a safe place to live?: Openshaw & Gorton North has a safety score of 100/100. The score is the national percentile rank of police-recorded crime per 1,000 residents, inverted so 100 is the safest 1% of England + Wales. The Safety section below shows the breakdown by category.
What schools are near Openshaw & Gorton North?: 49% of schools within 2 km of Openshaw & Gorton North are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. The Schools section lists individual schools with inspection ratings.
How long is the commute from Openshaw & Gorton North?: Public-transport commute time from Openshaw & Gorton North to central London is approximately 127 minutes. The Transport section has commute times to every major UK city hub.
How is Openshaw & Gorton North different from the rest of Manchester?: Openshaw & Gorton North contains 6 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 Openshaw & Gorton North rank in Manchester?: Openshaw & Gorton North 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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