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Ancoats (M4): an area guide before you move

Ancoats (M4) has a recorded-sale median of £245,000, alongside 76 open registered schools and 18 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 £245,000 from 788 completed sales.

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

Daily-life picture

76 open schools. 67 bus and 18 rail, metro or tram nodes.

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

District prices

M4 recorded 788 completed sales in the 24-month sample. The median was £245,000. The £307,965 average is higher because a small number of expensive sales can lift it.

Median recorded sale
£245,000
Average recorded sale
£307,965
Recorded sales
788 (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 7,409 reports from 2018-07 to 2019-06. Violence and sexual offences, robbery, burglary and weapons-possession reports account for 1,735, or 23.4% of the total.

Reported crime, 12 months
7,409
Selected report-category share
1,735 (23.4%)
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. M4 has a median of 4.0. 42.9% of mapped postcode units are in the poorer 1 to 3 band and 15.1% are in the more well-off 8 to 10 band.

Median IMD decile
4.0 / 10
Postcode units in deciles 1–3
42.9%
Postcode units in deciles 8–10
15.1%
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 76 open establishments in M4. It is a useful picture of the local school base, across the phases shown in the card below.

Registered school sites
76 (Nursery: 1, Primary: 63, Secondary: 12)
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 9 green-space or outdoor-sport sites covering 9.24 hectares, including 5 public parks or gardens. This gives the district a substantial mapped outdoor offer.

Mapped OS green-space sites
9
Mapped site area
9.24 ha
Public parks or gardens
5
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 5,155 postcode units. 481 have high-risk surrounding addresses and 779 have medium-risk surroundings.

Postcode units in source
5,155
Units with high-risk surroundings
481
Units with medium-risk surroundings
779
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 19.6 µg/m³. 100.0% of mapped units exceed the WHO 10 µg/m³ guideline and 0.0% meet or exceed 40 µg/m³.

Median annual mean NO₂
19.6 µg/m³
Postcode units above WHO 10 µg/m³
100.0%
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 67 active bus nodes and 18 rail, metro or tram nodes across M4. Together, they describe the district-wide public-transport network.

Active bus access nodes
67
Active rail, metro or tram nodes
18
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 86 personal-injury collisions in 2022 to 24: 0 fatal, 21 serious and 65 slight.

Reported collisions, 2022–24 (raw count)
86
Fatal
0
Serious
21
Slight
65
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

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