Withington is a suburban area in south Manchester, offering a mix of urban and village-like qualities, with a range of housing types and community facilities.
What stands out
- Leafy residential streets
- Village-style high street
- Nearby parklands
Trade-offs
- Convenient city links versus suburban quiet
- Variety of housing styles versus busy roads
- Community amenities versus limited nightlife
Everyday life
Withington's high street offers a range of shops, cafes, and restaurants, while its residential areas feature a mix of period homes and modern developments, with local parks and green spaces providing opportunities for outdoor activities.
Housing character
The area features a diverse range of housing, from Victorian and Edwardian homes to interwar semis and modern apartments, with some streets lined with trees and others experiencing busier traffic.
Getting around
Withington is well-connected to Manchester city centre and surrounding areas via major roads, with regular public transport links, including a nearby train station, providing easy access to the city and beyond.
Things to investigate
Visitors may want to explore the local parks and green spaces, such as those along the River Mersey, and investigate the area's community facilities, including leisure centres and community halls, as well as its village-style high street and surrounding residential areas.
Schools
Measured by distance from the area centre, straight line. Primary is a walk and secondary is a journey, so they are counted on different radii. Ofsted's published judgements, not a Greathome rating.
Primarystate-funded, within 2 km
13 schools
- Judged by Ofsted
- 11
- At least Good
- 11
- Outstanding or equivalent
- 2
- Below Good
- 0
Secondarystate-funded, within 5 km
17 schools
- Judged by Ofsted
- 17
- At least Good
- 13
- Outstanding or equivalent
- 3
- Below Good
- 4
22 open schools of every phase sit within 2 km, 3 of them independent. Independent schools carry no Ofsted judgement in this release, so they appear in the total and never in the judged figures. Nothing here establishes catchment, admissions eligibility or available places.
The nearest 6 schools, with their published judgement
| School | Phase | Distance | Published judgement |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Paul's CofE Primary School | Primary | 0.1 km | School remains Good · Ungraded inspection |
| Bridgelea Pupil Referral Unit | Not applicable | 0.1 km | School remains Good · Ungraded inspection |
| St Cuthbert's RC Primary School and Nursery, A Voluntary Academy | Primary | 0.5 km | No published judgement |
| Old Moat Primary School | Primary | 0.7 km | Outstanding · Overall effectiveness, pre-September 2024 |
| West Didsbury CE Primary School | Primary | 0.8 km | Good · Overall effectiveness, pre-September 2024 |
| Withington Girls' School | Not applicable | 0.8 km | No published judgement |
Housing market context
£251,250average house price across Manchester, June 2026
A year earlier the same measure was £244,141, a change of +2.9%.
Average price across the whole local authority for one month, from the ONS series built on HM Land Registry UK House Price Index data. It is not a neighbourhood median and not a valuation of any property. Two guides in the same borough share this figure while their streets differ. House-price data is revised, and recent months are the most likely to move.
Source: Average house price by local authority, Office for National Statistics, from HM Land Registry UK House Price Index.
What this report does not cover
- neighbourhood median sale price (not_available): Only a local-authority average is connected, from ONS. A neighbourhood median needs enough geocoded transactions inside the guide boundary, which the per-postcode HMLR queries cannot supply.
- rents (not_available): No rent series is connected. Advertised rents and official all-tenancy measures are different things and neither is available here yet.
- journey times (not_available): No journey planner is connected. Transport is measured as nearby stops, not as time to anywhere. TfL PTAL and journey-time APIs would replace it for London.
- school admissions history (not_available): Admission arrangements are held by each admission authority and are not in the GIAS or Ofsted snapshots.
- licensed premises and venues (not_available): No licensing register or venue dataset is connected. Food-hygiene categories are not a pub register.
- image rights (not_yet_verified): No licensed image library is connected. Return an image brief rather than an asset.
- approved boundary polygon (not_yet_verified): Boundaries are postcode-district proxies. Counts describe the districts named, not a town-centre polygon.
Boundary
Withington, taken as the M19, M20 postcode districts. A postcode-district proxy, not an approved polygon. These are postcode districts standing in for an approved polygon. Present every count as "in these postcode districts", never as a neighbourhood or town-centre figure.
Sources
- Average house price by local authority — Office for National Statistics, from HM Land Registry UK House Price Index
- Get Information About Schools — Department for Education
- Ofsted inspection management information — Ofsted
- Street-level crime data — Police.uk
- Postcode and administrative geography — Postcodes.io / ONS
Evidence checked 2026-09-11. Last content change 2026-09-10. Next review 2026-09-18.
What is already known about Withington
Geography from the official record. A district or place name is a group of postcodes, not one address.
- Live postcodes
- 807 in M19
- Localities
- Heatons, Burnage, Didsbury, Levenshulme
- Local authority
- Manchester, Stockport
- Country
- England
- Centre postcode
- M19 1XS
The pin uses Postcodes.io coordinates, not an exact entrance or title boundary.
Tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors
Districts next to M19
Found in the same 2.8 km sample around the centre of M19, from 225 live postcodes. Proximity, not a boundary.
Nearby pubs
Pubs mapped in OpenStreetMap within 2.0 miles of M20 4BT, nearest first.
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