What's the median rent in Langley & Wood Side?

The median monthly rent across Langley & Wood Side is £824.

How well-connected is Langley & Wood Side?

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 36 minutes' walk.

What schools are near Langley & Wood Side?

There are 11 schools within 2 km of Langley & Wood Side, of which 40% are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. The nearest Outstanding-rated school is approximately 587 m away.

What is the council tax band in Langley & Wood Side?

The most common council tax band in Langley & Wood Side is A, with the typical Band D annual charge around £1,857. Council tax is set by Rochdale council and applies to every property in the area.

How long is the commute from Langley & Wood Side to London?

By the fastest direct train, the journey from Langley & Wood Side to central London is approximately 169 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 Langley & Wood Side?

100% of premises in Langley & Wood Side are gigabit-capable according to Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Most properties can already buy gigabit packages.

What is the deprivation rank of Langley & Wood Side?

Langley & Wood Side sits in IMD decile 2 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 Langley & Wood Side?

39% of households in Langley & Wood Side 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 Langley & Wood Side?

The average property price across Rochdale (the local authority covering Langley & Wood Side) is approximately £206,592, 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 Langley & Wood Side a commuter town or workplace hub?

Commuter town — most working residents travel out for work. (0.39 jobs per working-age resident. Median resident salary £29,535.)

Which local areas are part of Langley & Wood Side?

Langley & Wood Side contains 6 local areas: Rochdale 022D, Rochdale 022E, Rochdale 022C, Rochdale 022B, Rochdale 022A…

What is the average rent in Langley & Wood Side?

The estimated median monthly rent in Langley & Wood Side is £824. 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 Langley & Wood Side a safe place to live?

Langley & Wood Side 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 Langley & Wood Side?

40% of schools within 2 km of Langley & Wood Side are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. The Schools section lists individual schools with inspection ratings.

How long is the commute from Langley & Wood Side?

Public-transport commute time from Langley & Wood Side to central London is approximately 169 minutes. The Transport section has commute times to every major UK city hub.

How is Langley & Wood Side different from the rest of Rochdale?

Langley & Wood Side 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 Langley & Wood Side rank in Rochdale?

Langley & Wood Side scores 81/100 on our composite liveability index. To see how it stacks up against every other neighbourhood in Rochdale, see the Cities table on the Rochdale page.

Neighbourhood · Rochdale · North West

Langley & Wood Side

Rochdale 022 · 6 sub-areas · 13,922 residents

Updated May 2026

Verdict

How are these scored? →

Best for Couples (79/100)Watch-out: Young professionals (60/100)Liveability 81/100 · Top quartileCommuter neighbourhood

Langley & Wood Side is a commuter neighbourhood within Rochdale — train into Manchester runs in around 47 minutes, and the rhythm of weekday mornings is shaped by it. The demographic profile leans family-aged, with a clear share of households with school-age children.

Median rent

£824+9.6%

vs last year

ONS Rent Index (PIPR) · Mar 2026

Crime / 1k / yr

0.4

Best 5% nationally

Police.uk crime data · Feb 2026

Best hub commute

47 min

Direct to Manchester

Network Rail TTIS (CIF) · Apr 2026

Good schools 2 km

40%

11 schools within 2 km

Ofsted (spatial) · Feb 2026

Liveability

81/100

Top quartile

Population

13,922

6 sub-areas

ONS LSOA mid-2024 estimates · 2024

Overview

What's it like to live in Langley & Wood Side?

A snapshot of Langley & Wood Side

The area is unusually green for its density — 11 parks and 4 playgrounds sit within five minutes' walk of the centroid; there's effectively nothing within walking distance — eating out, drinking and shopping mean a drive; The streets feel safe by national standards — police-recorded crime is well below the country-wide median; Transport links are limited — a car or e-bike is a practical assumption for most regular trips; rents are below the national norm, with a typical home letting at around £824 a month; 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.

Langley & Wood Side in Rochdale

Cost

Cost of living

What does it cost to live here?

Rent runs at £824 a month — 25% below the national median. Council tax is most commonly Band A.

Median rentCouncil area

£824/mo

Up 9.6% on last year

−£276 vs nat'l avg

Total monthly baseline

£979/mo

Rent + council tax + indicative utilities

Council tax — modal bandCouncil area

Around £1,857/yr · £155/mo

Years to save 10% deposit

3.7 yr

Assumes saving 20% of gross salary

−26% vs nat'l avg

Rent — whole property and per room (sharing)2-bed: £769/mo · £385/room

By bedroom count

1 bedroom£599/mosolo only

2 bedrooms£769/mo£385/mo per room shared

3 bedrooms£924/mo£308/mo per room shared

4 bedrooms£1,332/mo£333/mo per room shared

By property type

Flat£681/mo

Terraced house£809/mo

Semi-detached£911/mo

Detached house£1,227/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

40%

of take-home

£824/mo per person · take-home £2,065/moTight but workable

Sharing a 2-bed

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

19%

of take-home

£385/mo per person · take-home £2,065/moComfortable

Sharing a 3-bed

One room in a 3-bed flat-share

15%

of take-home

£308/mo per person · take-home £2,065/moComfortable

Couple, two incomes

Whole property split between two earners on the local median salary

20%

of take-home

£412/mo per person · take-home £2,065/moComfortable

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~£1,145/mo on a 25-year mortgage at 5%

Median sale price (Land Registry)£217,500

Average price (HPI, smoother)Council area£206,5924.8% YoY

Estimated monthly mortgage£1,145/mo

Gross rental yield (BTL)4.3%

Years to save 10% deposit3.7 years

Bills — council tax, energy, fuel povertyCouncil tax (Band D, all-in): £2,601/yr

Council tax — Band D (incl. precepts)Council area£2,601/yr

Council tax — band-mix-weighted (typical home)Council area£1,857/yr

EPC median rating—

Homes rated A or B16%

Households in fuel poverty12.1%

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 Langley & Wood Side?

Safety scores 100/100 against the national distribution, with police-recorded crime running 235.1× safer than the national average (0.4 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.

Crime / 1k / yr

0.4

recorded incidents per 1,000 residents · 0 / month

Safety scoreHow? →

100/100

Higher is safer (national percentile)

Deprivation decile

2/10

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

0.4 /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 Langley & Wood Side

Weak transport links — 38/100; nearest rail station is Mills Hill at around 2914 m; 50 bus stops within five minutes' walk; Manchester is reachable in 47 minutes by direct train.

Transport scoreHow? →

38/100

Below median

Best hub commute

47 min

Direct to Manchester

WFH share

16%

Census 2021 — work mostly from home

Nearest National Rail

Mills Hill

2.9 km walk · 47 min to Manchester

Nearest tube / metro / tram

Bowker Vale

4.5 km walk · Manchester Metrolink

Commute by train to major UK hubsFastest: Manchester in 47 min

Londonapprox

169 min

Manchester

47 min

Birminghamapprox

137 min

Leeds

119 min

Liverpoolapprox

84 min

Bristolapprox

234 min

Sheffieldapprox

98 min

Edinburghapprox

235 min

Glasgowapprox

236 min

Cardiffapprox

236 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

Drive57%Public transport14%Walk / cycle8%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 Langley & Wood Side

11 schools within a 2 km radius; around 40% rated Good or Outstanding — somewhat below the national norm; the nearest Outstanding school, Bowlee Park Community Primary School, is around 335 m away.

School scoreHow? →

91/100

Best 10%

Schools within 2 km

5 rated Good or Outstanding

% Good or Outstanding

40%

Of all schools within 2 km

−29.9 pp vs nat'l avg

Nearest Outstanding school

Bowlee Park Community Primary School

335 m from the centroid

Closest schools5 closest within ~5 km of the centroid

Name	Phase	Rating	Distance
St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School, Middleton	Voluntary Aided School	Good	283 m
Bowlee Park Community Primary School	Community School	Outstanding	335 m
Parkfield Primary School	Community School	Good	1.0 km
Edgar Wood Academy	Free School	Requires improvement	1.0 km
St Anne's Church of England Academy	Academy Sponsor Led	Good	1.3 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 Langley & Wood Side?

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
Theatres0≤ 2 km
Museums0≤ 2 km
Galleries0≤ 2 km
Nightclubs0≤ 1 km

Practical & family

Supermarkets0≤ 500 m
Libraries0≤ 500 m
Parks11≤ 500 m
Playgrounds4≤ 500 m
Gyms0≤ 1 km

Getting around

Bus stops (close)50≤ 500 m
Bus stops (wider)50≤ 1 km
Rail stations0≤ 500 m
Tube entrances0≤ 500 m
Tram stops0≤ 500 m

Who it suits

Is Langley & Wood Side 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

70/100

Good fit

Schools rate modestly (40% Good+ within 2 km), rental turnover is higher than average, and safety scores above the median.

See schools ranking →

Young professionals

60/100

Good fit

Transport scores 38/100 and gigabit broadband reaches 100% of premises.

See transport ranking →

Couples

79/100

Great fit

Liveability 81/100, safety 100/100 and median rent at £824/mo combine to make this a comfortable choice for a couple.

See affordability ranking →

Retirees

70/100

Good fit

Healthcare is close (GP ~426 m, hospital ~4.6 km), greenspace is walkable, and 12% of residents are 65+ — an established peer group.

See safety ranking →

Investors / BTL

65/100

Good fit

Gross yield 4.3%, capital growth +4.8% YoY, 13% private-rented stock — strong tenant pool with reasonable demand and supply balance.

See earnings ranking →

Solo renters

64/100

Good fit

Private-rental stock is thin (13% PRS), 30% of households are single-person, though transit access is patchy.

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 (28% under 18), 19% degree-educated, below the national average.

Age profile

Under 1828%18–3422%35–4920%50–6416%65+12%

Tenure

Owned39%Private rent13%Social rent48%

Households

One person30%Couple with children20%Lone parent22%Other7%

Property types

Flat17%Terraced39%Semi-detached35%Detached9%

Ethnic mix and country of birthDiversity index: 31/100

Ethnic group

White83%Asian3%Black9%Mixed3%Other1%

Country of birth

UK-born81%Born outside UK19%

Religion

Christian58%Muslim4%No religion32%Other1%

Education and health19% degree-educated

Degree-educated (16+)19.1%−14.4 pp vs nat'l

No qualifications31.8%

Self-rated good or very good health76.9%

Self-rated bad or very bad health8.8%

Disabled (Equality Act)22.9%

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

Employment

Work and income

primarily residential — most working residents commute out (0.39 jobs per resident); median resident salary £29,535/year; 6.0% on the DWP claimant count.

Median resident salaryCouncil area

£29,535/yr

Workplace earnings of people who live here

Unemployment rate (ILO)

9.0%

ONS ILO method — 55% economically active (Census 2021)

Jobs in the council areaCouncil area

95,000

0.39 jobs per working-age resident

Working status of 16+ residents (Census 2021)ILO unemployment 9.0% · 55% economically active · 44% inactive

ILO unemployment rate: 9.0% — 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%Unemployed5%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: 6.0% 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

16.4%

Retail & hospitality

24.2%

Education

8.6%

Manufacturing

10.3%

Professional

3.8%

Construction

5.4%

Tech & ICT

2.1%

Finance

0.5%

Net commute flow: +86,378 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 Langley & Wood Side

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

Sub-area	Median rent	Liveability	Safety	Transport
Rochdale 022D	£824	99	100	30	View →
Rochdale 022E	£824	78	—	38	View →
Rochdale 022C	£824	85	—	37	View →
Rochdale 022B	£824	85	—	55	View →
Rochdale 022A	£824	52	—	38	View →
Rochdale 022F	£824	78	—	36	View →

Postcodes covered

In Rochdale 022D

M24 4BU M24 4HJ M24 4HX M24 4HZ M24 4JA M24 4JG M24 4JH M24 4JJ M24 4JL M24 4JN M24 4JP M24 4JQ M24 4JU M24 4JW M24 4LF M24 4LH M24 4LJ M24 4LZ M24 4NA M24 4NB M24 4ND M24 4NG M24 4NH M24 4NJ M24 4NL M24 4NN M24 4NP M24 4NQ M24 4NR M24 4NS M24 4NT M24 4NU M24 4NW M24 4NX M24 4NY M24 4NZ M24 4TP M24 4TX M24 4WA M24 4WB M24 4WG M24 4WL M24 4WN M24 4WP M24 4WQ M24 4WR M24 4WS M24 4WT M24 4WW M24 4WX

In Rochdale 022E

M24 4EG M24 4EJ M24 4EN M24 4EP M24 4EQ M24 4ER M24 4ES M24 4ET M24 4EU M24 4EW M24 4EX M24 4EY M24 4EZ M24 4FG M24 4FJ M24 4FN M24 4FP M24 4FQ M24 4FR M24 4FS M24 4FT M24 4FU M24 4FW M24 4FX M24 4FY M24 4FZ M24 4GN M24 4HR M24 4JB M24 4JD M24 4JE M24 4JF M24 4RU M24 4RX M24 4RZ M24 4SN M24 4SQ M24 4SR M24 4WU

In Rochdale 022F

M24 4GG M24 4GP M24 4GQ M24 4GR M24 4HA M24 4HD M24 4LA M24 4LB M24 4LE M24 4LG M24 4LL M24 4LN M24 4LP M24 4LQ M24 4LT M24 4LU M24 4LW M24 4LX M24 4LY M24 4NF M24 4QG M24 4QP M24 4QY M24 4SA M24 4SB M24 4SD M24 4SL M24 4SU M24 4SY M24 4TH M24 4TY M24 5AJ M24 5JB M24 5JD M24 5JH M24 5JJ M24 5JU M24 5JX M24 5JY M24 5NB M24 5ND M24 5NE

In Rochdale 022C

M24 4GH M24 4HG M24 4HS M24 4HT M24 4HU M24 4HY M24 4QN M24 4QW M24 4TL M24 4TT M24 4TW M24 5AB M24 5AH M24 5GH M24 5GN M24 5JQ M24 5LG M24 5LL M24 5LP M24 5LQ M24 5LR M24 5LW M24 5PA M24 5PB

In Rochdale 022A

M24 5AL M24 5AN M24 5AP M24 5AQ M24 5AR M24 5AT M24 5AU M24 5AZ M24 5BA M24 5BB M24 5BD M24 5BE M24 5BG M24 5BH M24 5BJ M24 5BN M24 5BP M24 5BQ M24 5GJ M24 5GL M24 5GP M24 5GQ M24 5GU M24 5GW M24 5JT M24 5JW M24 5LJ M24 5LS M24 5LT M24 5LX M24 5LY M24 5LZ M24 5NG M24 5NN M24 5NP M24 5NQ M24 5NU M24 5NW

In Rochdale 022B

M24 5GG M24 5GR M24 5GS M24 5GX M24 5NS M24 5NT M24 5NX

Compare with…

How does Langley & Wood Side compare to neighbouring areas?

One-click side-by-side comparisons against 6 sibling neighbourhoods in Rochdale. Rent, safety, transport, schools, total cost of living — all the same metrics, two areas at a time.

Compare

Langley & Wood Side vs Deeplish

Rochdale→

Compare

Langley & Wood Side vs Wardleworth & Newbold Brow

Rochdale→

Compare

Langley & Wood Side vs Central Rochdale & Mandale Park

Rochdale→

Compare

Langley & Wood Side vs Kingsway

Rochdale→

Compare

Langley & Wood Side vs Heywood Town

Rochdale→

Compare

Langley & Wood Side vs Spotland Bridge

Rochdale→

Set up your move

What you'll need on day one

Set up your home

Slot

Compare broadband at Langley & Wood Side

See providers, speeds and prices for this postcode

Compare deals →

Set up your home

Slot

Switch energy on your move-in date

Compare gas + electricity tariffs

Switch tariff →

Cover your stuff

Slot

Renters' contents insurance

From £5/month — bundle with car or pet cover

Get a quote →

Plan your move

Slot

Compare removal quotes

Get instant quotes from rated local firms

Get quotes →

FAQ

Frequently asked

What's the median rent in Langley & Wood Side?: The median monthly rent across Langley & Wood Side is £824.
How safe is Langley & Wood Side?: Langley & Wood Side 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 Langley & Wood Side?: 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 36 minutes' walk.
What schools are near Langley & Wood Side?: There are 11 schools within 2 km of Langley & Wood Side, of which 40% are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. The nearest Outstanding-rated school is approximately 587 m away.
What is the council tax band in Langley & Wood Side?: The most common council tax band in Langley & Wood Side is A, with the typical Band D annual charge around £1,857. Council tax is set by Rochdale council and applies to every property in the area.
How long is the commute from Langley & Wood Side to London?: By the fastest direct train, the journey from Langley & Wood Side to central London is approximately 169 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 Langley & Wood Side?: 100% of premises in Langley & Wood Side are gigabit-capable according to Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Most properties can already buy gigabit packages.
What is the deprivation rank of Langley & Wood Side?: Langley & Wood Side sits in IMD decile 2 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 Langley & Wood Side?: 39% of households in Langley & Wood Side 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 Langley & Wood Side?: The average property price across Rochdale (the local authority covering Langley & Wood Side) is approximately £206,592, 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 Langley & Wood Side a commuter town or workplace hub?: Commuter town — most working residents travel out for work. (0.39 jobs per working-age resident. Median resident salary £29,535.)
Which local areas are part of Langley & Wood Side?: Langley & Wood Side contains 6 local areas: Rochdale 022D, Rochdale 022E, Rochdale 022C, Rochdale 022B, Rochdale 022A…

FAQ

Frequently asked about Langley & Wood Side

Short answers anchored in the data above. Each link goes to the relevant section or methodology page.

What is the average rent in Langley & Wood Side?: The estimated median monthly rent in Langley & Wood Side is £824. 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 Langley & Wood Side a safe place to live?: Langley & Wood Side 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 Langley & Wood Side?: 40% of schools within 2 km of Langley & Wood Side are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. The Schools section lists individual schools with inspection ratings.
How long is the commute from Langley & Wood Side?: Public-transport commute time from Langley & Wood Side to central London is approximately 169 minutes. The Transport section has commute times to every major UK city hub.
How is Langley & Wood Side different from the rest of Rochdale?: Langley & Wood Side 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 Langley & Wood Side rank in Rochdale?: Langley & Wood Side scores 81/100 on our composite liveability index. To see how it stacks up against every other neighbourhood in Rochdale, see the Cities table on the Rochdale page.

Looking elsewhere? Back to Rochdale · Browse the map