What's the median rent in Victoria Park & Longsight West?

The median monthly rent across Victoria Park & Longsight West is £1,347.

How well-connected is Victoria Park & Longsight West?

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 19 minutes' walk.

What schools are near Victoria Park & Longsight West?

There are 29 schools within 2 km of Victoria Park & Longsight West, of which 35% are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. The nearest Outstanding-rated school is approximately 1502 m away.

What is the council tax band in Victoria Park & Longsight West?

The most common council tax band in Victoria Park & Longsight West is A, with the typical Band D annual charge around £1,644. Council tax is set by Manchester council and applies to every property in the area.

How long is the commute from Victoria Park & Longsight West to London?

By the fastest direct train, the journey from Victoria Park & Longsight West to central London is approximately 138 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 Victoria Park & Longsight West?

100% of premises in Victoria Park & Longsight West are gigabit-capable according to Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Most properties can already buy gigabit packages.

What is the deprivation rank of Victoria Park & Longsight West?

Victoria Park & Longsight West 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 Victoria Park & Longsight West?

21% of households in Victoria Park & Longsight West 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 Victoria Park & Longsight West?

The average property price across Manchester (the local authority covering Victoria Park & Longsight West) 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 Victoria Park & Longsight West 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 Victoria Park & Longsight West?

Victoria Park & Longsight West contains 5 local areas: Manchester 022E, Manchester 022H, Manchester 022C, Manchester 022D, Manchester 022B.

What is the average rent in Victoria Park & Longsight West?

The estimated median monthly rent in Victoria Park & Longsight West 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 Victoria Park & Longsight West a safe place to live?

Victoria Park & Longsight West 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 Victoria Park & Longsight West?

35% of schools within 2 km of Victoria Park & Longsight West are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. The Schools section lists individual schools with inspection ratings.

How long is the commute from Victoria Park & Longsight West?

Public-transport commute time from Victoria Park & Longsight West to central London is approximately 138 minutes. The Transport section has commute times to every major UK city hub.

How is Victoria Park & Longsight West different from the rest of Manchester?

Victoria Park & Longsight West 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 Victoria Park & Longsight West rank in Manchester?

Victoria Park & Longsight West 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

Victoria Park & Longsight West

Manchester 022 · 5 sub-areas · 12,964 residents

Updated May 2026

Verdict

How are these scored? →

Best for Young professionals (88/100)Watch-out: Families (62/100)Liveability 85/100 · Top quartile

Victoria Park & Longsight West 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 population skews young, with a high concentration of 18- to 34-year-olds; the rental market is active and turnover is high — people move through rather than stay.

Median rent

£1,347+2.8%

vs last year

ONS Rent Index (PIPR) · Mar 2026

Crime / 1k / yr

0.7

Best 5% nationally

Police.uk crime data · Feb 2026

Best hub commute

19 min

Direct to Manchester

Network Rail TTIS (CIF) · Apr 2026

Good schools 2 km

35%

29 schools within 2 km

Ofsted (spatial) · Feb 2026

Liveability

85/100

Top quartile

Population

12,964

5 sub-areas

ONS LSOA mid-2024 estimates · 2024

Overview

What's it like to live in Victoria Park & Longsight West?

A snapshot of Victoria Park & Longsight West

3 parks are within five minutes' walk, so greenspace is reliably close at hand; food and drink within walking distance is workable but not dense — around 18 restaurants and 2 pubs in five minutes; 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 5 sub-areas — population-weighted means for rates, sums for counts. Sources cited beneath each section.

Victoria Park & Longsight West 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

£1,484/mo

Rent + council tax + indicative utilities

Council tax — modal bandCouncil area

Around £1,644/yr · £137/mo

Years to save 10% deposit

3.6 yr

Assumes saving 20% of gross salary

−28% 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~£1,131/mo on a 25-year mortgage at 5%

Median sale price (Land Registry)£215,000

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

Estimated monthly mortgage£1,131/mo

Gross rental yield (BTL)6.8%

Years to save 10% deposit3.6 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£1,644/yr

EPC median rating—

Homes rated A or B2%

Households in fuel poverty20.5%

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 Victoria Park & Longsight West?

Safety scores 100/100 against the national distribution, with police-recorded crime running 147.9× safer than the national average (0.7 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

0.7

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

0.5 /1k

Public order

0.4 /1k

Other theft

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 Victoria Park & Longsight West

Strong transport links — 74/100; nearest rail station is Ardwick at around 1495 m; 57 bus stops within five minutes' walk; Manchester is reachable in 19 minutes by direct train.

Transport scoreHow? →

74/100

Above median

Best hub commute

19 min

Direct to Manchester

WFH share

20%

Census 2021 — work mostly from home

Nearest National Rail

Ardwick

1.5 km walk · 19 min to Manchester

Nearest tube / metro / tram

Piccadilly

2.6 km walk · Manchester Metrolink

Commute by train to major UK hubsFastest: Manchester in 19 min

Londonapprox

138 min

Manchester

19 min

Birminghamapprox

105 min

Leedsapprox

69 min

Liverpoolapprox

55 min

Bristolapprox

202 min

Sheffieldapprox

66 min

Edinburghapprox

210 min

Glasgowapprox

212 min

Cardiffapprox

204 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

Drive33%Public transport19%Walk / cycle18%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 Victoria Park & Longsight West

29 schools within a 2 km radius; around 35% rated Good or Outstanding — somewhat below the national norm; the nearest Outstanding school, Co-op Academy Belle Vue, is around 1633 m away.

School scoreHow? →

77/100

Top quartile

Schools within 2 km

10 rated Good or Outstanding

% Good or Outstanding

35%

Of all schools within 2 km

−35.5 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 John's CofE Primary School	Voluntary Controlled School	Good	288 m
St Agnes C of E Primary School	Voluntary Controlled School	Good	718 m
Manchester Enterprise Academy Central	Free School	Good	1.4 km
St Richard's RC Primary School	Voluntary Aided School	Good	1.5 km
Manchester Academy	Academy Sponsor Led	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 Victoria Park & Longsight West?

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

Pubs2≤ 500 m
Bars1≤ 500 m
Restaurants18≤ 500 m
Cafés2≤ 500 m
Cuisine variety18≤ 1 km

Going out

Cinemas0≤ 2 km
Theatres2≤ 2 km
Museums3≤ 2 km
Galleries1≤ 2 km
Nightclubs0≤ 1 km

Practical & family

Supermarkets1≤ 500 m
Libraries0≤ 500 m
Parks3≤ 500 m
Playgrounds0≤ 500 m
Gyms1≤ 1 km

Getting around

Bus stops (close)57≤ 500 m
Bus stops (wider)57≤ 1 km
Rail stations0≤ 500 m
Tube entrances0≤ 500 m
Tram stops0≤ 500 m

Who it suits

Is Victoria Park & Longsight West 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

62/100

Good fit

Schools rate modestly (35% Good+ within 2 km), rental turnover is higher than average, and safety scores above the median.

See schools ranking →

Young professionals

88/100

Great fit

Transport scores 74/100 and gigabit broadband reaches 100% of premises.

See transport ranking →

Couples

81/100

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

82/100

Great fit

Healthcare is close (GP ~294 m, hospital ~1.4 km), greenspace is walkable, and 6% of residents are 65+ — an established peer group.

See safety ranking →

Investors / BTL

86/100

Great fit

Gross yield 6.8%, capital growth +3.9% YoY, 51% private-rented stock — strong tenant pool with reasonable demand and supply balance.

See earnings ranking →

Solo renters

84/100

Great fit

Private-rental stock is deep (51% PRS), 35% of households are single-person, with transit a short walk away.

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: young-skewing population (46% aged 18–34), active rental market (51% privately rented).

Age profile

Under 1823%18–3446%35–4917%50–6411%65+6%

Tenure

Owned21%Private rent51%Social rent26%

Households

One person35%Couple with children16%Lone parent9%Other24%

Property types

Flat49%Terraced33%Semi-detached13%Detached3%

Ethnic mix and country of birthDiversity index: 62/100

Ethnic group

White32%Asian45%Black10%Mixed5%Other6%

Country of birth

UK-born50%Born outside UK50%

Religion

Christian23%Muslim46%No religion22%Other4%

Education and health32% degree-educated

Degree-educated (16+)31.8%−1.7 pp vs nat'l

No qualifications18.9%

Self-rated good or very good health83.3%

Self-rated bad or very bad health5.1%

Disabled (Equality Act)15.8%

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)

16.9%

ONS ILO method — 51% 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 16.9% · 51% economically active · 51% inactive

ILO unemployment rate: 16.9% — 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.

Employed42%Unemployed9%Inactive51%

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: +452,351 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 Victoria Park & Longsight West

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

Sub-area	Median rent	Liveability	Safety	Transport
Manchester 022E	£1,347	100	100	89	View →
Manchester 022H	£1,347	99	100	72	View →
Manchester 022C	£1,347	85	—	79	View →
Manchester 022D	£1,347	85	—	71	View →
Manchester 022B	£1,347	85	—	74	View →

Postcodes covered

In Manchester 022H

M12 4EX M12 4FT M13 0AF M13 0AQ M13 0AR M13 0AS M13 0AU M13 0AX M13 0AY M13 0AZ M13 0BA M13 0BB M13 0BG M13 0BH M13 0BS M13 0BU M13 0BY M13 0BZ M13 0DA M13 0DB M13 0DD M13 0DE M13 0DG M13 0DL M13 0DN M13 0DP M13 0DX M13 0DY M13 0DZ M13 0EA M13 0EB M13 0ED M13 0EF M13 0EG M13 0EU M13 0FB M13 0FE M13 0FG M13 0FH M13 0FN M13 0FR M13 0FS M13 0FT M13 0FU M13 0FY M13 0FZ M13 0HB M13 0HL M13 0HR M13 0JB M13 0JH M13 0LB M13 0LG M13 0LL M13 0LN M13 0LW M13 9AS M13 9AT M13 9AZ M13 9BA M13 9LQ

In Manchester 022E

M13 0AE M13 0GB M13 0GD M13 0GT M13 0GU M13 0NG M13 0NQ M13 0NR M13 0PB M13 0PD M13 0PE M13 0PF M13 0PJ M13 0PN M13 0PW M13 0QU M13 0QX M13 0SG M13 0SJ M13 0SN M13 0SQ M13 0ST M13 0SW M13 0WP M13 0WQ M13 0WS

In Manchester 022C

M13 0BN M13 0BP M13 0DF M13 0DR M13 0EJ M13 0EL M13 0EN M13 0EW M13 0FF M13 0FJ M13 0FL M13 0FW M14 5BB M14 5BR M14 5BY M14 5BZ M14 5DA M14 5ET M14 5EU M14 5EW M14 5EX M14 5GF M14 5GH M14 5GJ M14 5GL M14 5PA M14 5PB M14 5PG M14 5PJ M14 5PL M14 5PN M14 5PQ M14 5PW M14 5QA M14 5QB M14 5QE M14 5QH

In Manchester 022B

M13 0BT M13 0DH M13 0DJ M13 0DS M13 0DT M13 0LX M13 0LY M13 0NN M13 0NS M13 0NW M13 0WH M13 0WL M13 0WT M13 0WU M13 0WX M13 0YA M13 0YB M13 0YD M13 0YE M13 0YF M13 0YR M14 5GA M14 5GD M14 5GE M14 5GG M14 5GP M14 5GQ M14 5GT M14 5GU M14 5GW M14 5PD M14 5PP M14 5PS M14 5PT M14 5PU M14 5PX M14 5PZ M14 5QD M14 5QF M14 5QG

In Manchester 022D

M13 0WN M13 0WR M13 0WW M13 0WY M13 0YG M13 0YJ M13 0YN M13 0YP M13 0YQ M13 0YS M13 0YW M13 0ZE M13 0ZF M13 0ZG M13 0ZH M13 0ZJ M13 0ZN M13 0ZP M13 0ZW M14 5DB M14 5DE M14 5DF M14 5DG M14 5DH M14 5DJ M14 5DL M14 5DN M14 5DP M14 5DQ M14 5DR M14 5DS M14 5DT M14 5DW M14 5GR M14 5PR M14 5PY

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What's the median rent in Victoria Park & Longsight West?: The median monthly rent across Victoria Park & Longsight West is £1,347.
How safe is Victoria Park & Longsight West?: Victoria Park & Longsight West 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 Victoria Park & Longsight West?: 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 19 minutes' walk.
What schools are near Victoria Park & Longsight West?: There are 29 schools within 2 km of Victoria Park & Longsight West, of which 35% are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. The nearest Outstanding-rated school is approximately 1502 m away.
What is the council tax band in Victoria Park & Longsight West?: The most common council tax band in Victoria Park & Longsight West is A, with the typical Band D annual charge around £1,644. Council tax is set by Manchester council and applies to every property in the area.
How long is the commute from Victoria Park & Longsight West to London?: By the fastest direct train, the journey from Victoria Park & Longsight West to central London is approximately 138 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 Victoria Park & Longsight West?: 100% of premises in Victoria Park & Longsight West are gigabit-capable according to Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Most properties can already buy gigabit packages.
What is the deprivation rank of Victoria Park & Longsight West?: Victoria Park & Longsight West 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 Victoria Park & Longsight West?: 21% of households in Victoria Park & Longsight West 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 Victoria Park & Longsight West?: The average property price across Manchester (the local authority covering Victoria Park & Longsight West) 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 Victoria Park & Longsight West 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 Victoria Park & Longsight West?: Victoria Park & Longsight West contains 5 local areas: Manchester 022E, Manchester 022H, Manchester 022C, Manchester 022D, Manchester 022B.

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What is the average rent in Victoria Park & Longsight West?: The estimated median monthly rent in Victoria Park & Longsight West 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 Victoria Park & Longsight West a safe place to live?: Victoria Park & Longsight West 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 Victoria Park & Longsight West?: 35% of schools within 2 km of Victoria Park & Longsight West are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. The Schools section lists individual schools with inspection ratings.
How long is the commute from Victoria Park & Longsight West?: Public-transport commute time from Victoria Park & Longsight West to central London is approximately 138 minutes. The Transport section has commute times to every major UK city hub.
How is Victoria Park & Longsight West different from the rest of Manchester?: Victoria Park & Longsight West 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 Victoria Park & Longsight West rank in Manchester?: Victoria Park & Longsight West 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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