About the Data
Manchester Neighbourhoods combines public datasets with editorial area guides. Coverage and collection periods differ by source, so raw figures provide context rather than a definitive ranking. Here is what the current snapshot contains.
Police UK API ↗ data.police.uk
What: Crime incidents by neighbourhood
The stored collection was made on 23 March 2026 from API requests for August 2025–January 2026 around each reference point. Police UK publication lag can leave the newest requested months incomplete or empty. The figures are incident counts for sampled areas, not population-normalised neighbourhood crime rates.
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
HM Land Registry ↗ landregistry.data.gov.uk
What: Indicative postcode-area property sale prices
The current dataset averages Land Registry Price Paid transaction means for the postcode districts associated with each guide, using transactions dated from 2023 onward. Postcode districts are broader than informal neighbourhoods and several guides can therefore share the same figure. Values are contextual approximations, not neighbourhood-level means, medians or rolling 12-month figures. The former derived price-per-square-metre estimate is not published.
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
Indicative rent estimates
What: Editorial monthly estimates for a two-bedroom home
The rent values are manually curated estimates, not a live rental feed or a statistical average. Check current listings before making a housing decision.
Licence: Not applicable — editorial estimates
ONS Census 2021 ↗ www.ons.gov.uk/census
What: Ward-level population context
Published 2021 ward totals provide background context. Police neighbourhoods do not map one-to-one to wards, so the guide-level population allocations and demographic percentages are estimates rather than direct Census values for those informal areas.
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
OpenStreetMap ↗ www.openstreetmap.org
What: Points of interest — shops, transport, amenities
Per-guide POI summaries were queried via Overpass, but the current snapshot has non-zero summary coverage for only 4 of 59 guides. The maps use a separate Manchester-wide OSM snapshot filtered around each reference point; neither dataset is a complete or live inventory.
Licence: ODbL (Open Database Licence)
Transport for Greater Manchester ↗ www.tfgm.com
What: Primary-source transport reference
TfGM is linked for checking current services. Nearest-stop labels in the guides are editorial and map context, not a complete live network or timetable.
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
How Comparisons Are Presented
The site previously displayed an overall 0–10 score. That ranking is currently withheld because POI coverage is incomplete and the source periods are not directly comparable.
- Crime — dated incident snapshots from a centroid-based sample
- Housing — editorial rent estimates and indicative postcode-area sale-price means
- Transport — named Metrolink connections and available map context
- Local character — clearly editorial tags and descriptions
Missing values are not evidence that an area has no amenities or poor transport. Overall rankings will return only after comparable coverage is available.
Limitations
🔶 Crime data was collected on 23 March 2026 from requested months August 2025–January 2026. Publication lag, empty responses and centroid sampling limit comparison between areas.
🔶 Rent estimates are indicative — actual rents vary significantly within each neighbourhood.
🔶 Census reference data is from 2021; guide-level allocations and demographic percentages are estimates and may not reflect recent shifts.
🔶 POI coverage is currently incomplete (4 of 59 guides) and is not used to rank areas publicly.
🔶 Sale-price figures approximate broader postcode districts from transaction means since 2023. They are not neighbourhood-specific prices, current medians or observed prices per square metre.