SHIRE CROFT, OL5 0AR House Prices & Local Information

OL5 0AR is an accessible, working-class neighbourhood on Shire Croft, 0.3km from Sandbed in Mossley. Administratively it sits within Mossley ward and the Stalybridge and Hyde constituency.

An affordable area with active regeneration, OL5 0AR is a striving suburban area — non-UK born households working to get ahead. The 38 average age reflects a mixed, mid-career community — settling down but not yet slowing down. 58% of homes are socially rented, reflecting the area's public housing provision and council presence.

Safety: Crime rates are low here at 0 incidents per 1,000 residents — well below average and reassuring for families. Property: Average house prices are around £330k, up 3.2% year-on-year. The Index of Multiple Deprivation places this area in the most deprived 20% nationally — this often means more affordable prices and active local authority investment, but also fewer amenities and higher benefit dependency.

Census 2021 statistics for OL5 0AR are sourced from Output Area E00030671 (shared with 6 postcodes in this micro-neighbourhood). Property prices come from HM Land Registry.