Balloon Street
Manchester, England
Reality check: Recorded indicators: transport-stop proximity 100/100; daily amenities 30/100; flood mapping 90/100; green-space proximity 73/100. Data unavailable: area-safety proxy. These indicators do not establish personal suitability or future property returns.
Compare Profile Scores
Each profile applies different weights to the available indicators; it does not determine personal suitability.
Available components: transport-stop proximity 100/100; daily amenities 30/100. Data unavailable: area-safety proxy, sale price. Compare the available inputs with your own requirements.
Available components: family indicators 70/100; green-space proximity 73/100; daily amenities 30/100. Data unavailable: area-safety proxy, energy. Compare the available inputs with your own requirements.
How this is calculated
Safety 30%, Family indicators 30%, Environment 20%, Amenities 10%, Energy 10%. Missing components are excluded and the remaining weights are rescaled.
Available components: transport-stop proximity 100/100; amenity proximity 60/100; daily amenities 30/100. Data unavailable: market proxy. Compare the available inputs with your own requirements.
How this is calculated
Transport 35%, Walkability 30%, Amenities 25%, Market 10%. Missing components are excluded and the remaining weights are rescaled.
Available components: green-space proximity 73/100; daily amenities 30/100; amenity proximity 60/100. Data unavailable: area-safety proxy, energy. Compare the available inputs with your own requirements.
How this is calculated
Safety 25%, Environment 25%, Amenities 20%, Energy 15%, Walkability 15%. Missing components are excluded and the remaining weights are rescaled.
Available components: transport-stop proximity 100/100; daily amenities 30/100. Data unavailable: area-safety proxy, sale price. Compare the available inputs with your own requirements.
How this is calculated
Affordability 40%, Transport 25%, Amenities 20%, Safety 15%. Missing components are excluded and the remaining weights are rescaled.
Flood mapping
The mapped street point is classified as Zone 1 in the Environment Agency planning dataset. This covers river and sea flooding; it does not assess every property or surface-water risk.
Dataset revision: 2026-05-20. This is the dataset revision date, not a property inspection date.
Check the official flood map for your propertyHow Life Works Here
Balloon Street is located in Manchester. Recorded crime data is unavailable for this area. No nearby amenity records are available in this extract. Recorded nearby transport modes: rail and bus and tram. The nearest mapped stop (Shudehill Interchange) is 92m away. Check current routes and service frequency with the operator. The price sample is too small to publish a median; at least eight recorded transactions are required. LSOA source indicators: recorded population 1,857; owner-occupied homes 6.8%; social housing 7.1%; retired population 0.8%; average household size 1.7. There are 8 schools within 2 km, 6 rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. Both primary and secondary options are available locally. Proximity does not establish admissions eligibility, catchment or personal suitability. The highest available weighted profile is first time buyers at 69/100. This is a comparison of recorded inputs, not a recommendation or a forecast of returns. The available indicators produce a composite score of 70/100. Its recorded district percentile is 87. Missing dimensions are excluded; scores are proxies rather than measurements of personal liveability.
Score Breakdown
Scores are heuristic proxies from open datasets. Missing dimensions are excluded from the overall score. Source and scope are listed below.
police.uk recorded incident counts in the source extract; LSOA area, not street-level or population-adjusted
OpenStreetMap amenities within 2km
DfT NaPTAN + TfL stops
OpenStreetMap green-space proximity; distance-decay proxy, not noise or air quality
HM Land Registry price paid data
GIAS/Ofsted school records, mapped amenities, household and area-score indicators
Amenity and transport proximity proxy; no pedestrian network or route assessment
EPC Register — awaiting public API access
English Environment Agency planning zones; Welsh NRW categories are shown separately
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Public Services Nearby
Public facilities within walking distance from Balloon Street, with detailed information for each.
gyms & sports centres (4)
- Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing 87m · 1 min walk
- The Olympus Project 252m · 3 min walk
- Fighting Fit 309m · 4 min walk
- TeamSport Karting 342m · 4 min walk
hospitals (5)
- NUPAS 588m · 7 min walk
- Destination Skin 705m · 9 min walk
- Optimax Laser Eye Clinic 731m · 9 min walk
- Skin 734m · 9 min walk
- Skinspace UK 734m · 9 min walk
libraries (4)
- Chetham's Library 270m · 3 min walk
- The Portico Library 695m · 9 min walk
- John Rylands Library 855m · 11 min walk
- Manchester Central library 934m · 12 min walk
parks & green spaces (5)
- Cathedral Gardens 152m · 2 min walk
- Angel Square 250m · 3 min walk
- St Michael's Flags 396m · 5 min walk
- Angel Meadow 493m · 6 min walk
- Piccadilly Gardens 588m · 7 min walk
schools (5)
- St Patrick's RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy 1019m · 13 min walk
- Abbott Community Primary School 1039m · 13 min walk
- Cheetwood Primary School 1281m · 16 min walk
- Eden Girls' Leadership Academy, Manchester 1529m · 19 min walk
- St Chad's Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy 1671m · 21 min walk
Transport Links
Similar Streets
Compared within this district using at least four shared score dimensions. Missing indicators are excluded.
- Hunts Bank Approach — Manchester70
- Evans Close — Manchester69
- Abbeydale Road — Manchester69
- Taylor's Lane — Manchester69
- Crossway — Manchester69
Data Transparency
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- OS Open Roads — Crown copyright and database right
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data — Crown copyright
- police.uk crime data — Open Government Licence v3.0
- OpenStreetMap — ODbL licence
- DfT NaPTAN — Open Government Licence v3.0
- GIAS schools data — Crown copyright
- Environment Agency flood data — OGL v3.0
- ONS Census 2021 — Open Government Licence v3.0
All scores are computed from publicly available government and open data. No proprietary data is used. Scores reflect statistical patterns, not guarantees. Limited data available for this street — interpret scores with caution.