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Altrincham (WA14): an area guide before you move

Altrincham (WA14) has a recorded-sale median of £412,000, alongside 17 open registered schools and 15 rail, metro or tram access nodes. The sections below set out the wider local picture before you move.

What the district facts say

Budget starting point

Median £412,000 from 859 completed sales.

The median is the clearest broad starting point for this district.

Daily-life picture

17 open schools. 148 bus and 15 rail, metro or tram nodes.

These are the district-level building blocks for everyday life.

District prices

WA14 recorded 859 completed sales in the 24-month sample. The median was £412,000. The £541,900 average is higher because a small number of expensive sales can lift it.

Median recorded sale
£412,000
Average recorded sale
£541,900
Recorded sales
859 (24 months)
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. local 2025-2026 bulk snapshot. Retrieved 2026-10-01.
How this was counted

Postcode district. non-deleted recorded sales in preceding 24 months.

Crime and serious-crime share

Police.uk records 2,975 reports from 2018-07 to 2019-06. Violence and sexual offences, robbery, burglary and weapons-possession reports account for 1,121, or 37.7% of the total.

Reported crime, 12 months
2,975
Selected report-category share
1,121 (37.7%)
data.police.uk historical street-level crime archive — Greater Manchester Police. 2018-07 to 2019-06; last complete 12-month GMP period before the July 2019 supply gap. Original download date not recorded.
How this was counted

Postcode district. Police.uk anonymised coordinates assigned to nearest Code-Point Open centroid; selected-category share is not an official severity rate.

Local-area deprivation context

IMD is a Government local-area scale from 1 to 10: 1 is the poorer end, while 10 is the more well-off end. WA14 has a median of 9.0. 5.2% of mapped postcode units are in the poorer 1 to 3 band and 81.0% are in the more well-off 8 to 10 band.

Median IMD decile
9.0 / 10
Postcode units in deciles 1–3
5.2%
Postcode units in deciles 8–10
81.0%
MHCLG English Indices of Deprivation postcode download. 2025. Original download date not recorded.
How this was counted

Postcode district. distribution of official IMD25 postcode assignments; England only.

Schools

The register lists 17 open establishments in WA14. It is a useful picture of the local school base, across the phases shown in the card below.

Registered school sites
17 (16 plus: 1, Primary: 11, Secondary: 5)
DfE Get Information about Schools establishment register. 2026-08-02. Original download date not recorded.
How this was counted

Postcode district. open GIAS establishments grouped by registered postcode district.

Green space and outdoor sport

OS maps 79 green-space or outdoor-sport sites covering 140.09 hectares, including 7 public parks or gardens. This gives the district a substantial mapped outdoor offer.

Mapped OS green-space sites
79
Mapped site area
140.09 ha
Public parks or gardens
7
OS Open Greenspace. April 2026 programme-city tile manifest. Original download date not recorded.
How this was counted

Postcode district. OS Open Greenspace April 2026 site polygon geometric centroid assigned to nearest Code-Point Open postcode centroid.

Flood context

The source covers 1,301 postcode units. 129 have high-risk surrounding addresses and 238 have medium-risk surroundings.

Postcode units in source
1,301
Units with high-risk surroundings
129
Units with medium-risk surroundings
238
Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data. 2026-07-10. Original download date not recorded.
How this was counted

Postcode district. sum of Environment Agency postcode source counts by outward postcode; counts concern areas around addresses, not a named property.

Air quality

The 2024 modelled annual-mean NO₂ median is 10.5 µg/m³. 51.8% of mapped units exceed the WHO 10 µg/m³ guideline and 0.0% meet or exceed 40 µg/m³.

Median annual mean NO₂
10.5 µg/m³
Postcode units above WHO 10 µg/m³
51.8%
Postcode units at or above legal 40 µg/m³
0.0%
DEFRA Pollution Climate Mapping annual-mean NO2 grid. 2024. Original download date not recorded.
How this was counted

Postcode district. DEFRA PCM 2024 1 km modelled annual-mean NO2 looked up at each Code-Point Open postcode centroid; postcode-unit weighted district summary.

Transport access nodes

NaPTAN contains 148 active bus nodes and 15 rail, metro or tram nodes across WA14. Together, they describe the district-wide public-transport network.

Active bus access nodes
148
Active rail, metro or tram nodes
15
NaPTAN. 2026-08-02. Original download date not recorded.
How this was counted

Postcode district. active NaPTAN access node assigned to nearest Code-Point Open centroid.

Broadband availability

The postcode-unit median maximum advertised download is 1,000 Mbit/s, with 100.0% full-fibre and 100.0% gigabit availability.

Median maximum advertised download
1,000 Mbit/s
Median full-fibre availability
100.0%
Median gigabit availability
100.0%
Ofcom Connected Nations. 2025. Original download date not recorded.
How this was counted

Postcode district. median across postcode units.

Road safety

DfT records 90 personal-injury collisions in 2022 to 24: 2 fatal, 24 serious and 64 slight.

Reported collisions, 2022–24 (raw count)
90
Fatal
2
Serious
24
Slight
64
DfT STATS19 Road Safety Data. 2022-2024 collision files. Original download date not recorded.
How this was counted

Postcode district. 2022–24 STATS19 collision assigned to nearest Code-Point Open centroid.

Sources and method

Related guides

For an address-specific desk check, Property Diligence’s paid report adds the more detailed property-level information available from public sources.