Offered their first-choice primary school (whole council)
91.6% 2026 · 5,630 applied
Offered their first-choice secondary school (whole council)
76.7% 2026 · 6,535 applied
Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25)
65.0% 148 schools
62%
Key stage 2 · higher standard (2024/25)
11.0% 148 schools
8%
GCSE Attainment 8, average score (2024/25)
51.8 47 schools
46
A level average points per entry (2024/25)
39.5 39 schools
35.00
The area
Crime per 1,000 residents, excluding anti-social behaviour
58.0 Aug 2025 to Jul 2026 · 32,146 crimes
Life expectancy at birth, men / women (2021 to 2023)
81.2 / 84.9 years
Average house price, all types
£479,736 Jul 2026 · +1.1% over 12 months
Average monthly rent, two bedrooms
£1,310 Aug 2026
Residents (2021 Census)
554,641
About these figures
First-choice offer rates cover the whole council that runs admissions, so districts in the same county share them. They are from national offer day.
Exam figures average the published results of the schools in the district or county, weighted by each school's number of pupils. Schools whose results are suppressed or not published are left out.
Crime counts the police-recorded street-level crimes in the district over the latest 12 months the force has published, divided by 2021 Census residents. It leaves out anti-social behaviour. Greater Manchester Police does not publish street-level data.
For a county, house prices and rents are the range between its districts.
These are averages for a whole area and say nothing certain about a particular school or street.