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A view of Heaton Moor. Photograph by Parrot of Doom.
Heaton Moor is a suburb located in the southern part of Stockport, offering a mix of residential areas and local amenities, with easy access to the town centre.
What stands out
Leafy residential streets
Community-focused atmosphere
Proximity to Heaton Park
Trade-offs
Mature trees and gardens versus busy roads
Quiet neighbourhood versus proximity to town centre
Residential character versus limited nightlife
What is already known about Heaton Moor
Live geography from the official record. A district or place name is a group of postcodes, not one address.
Live postcodes
821 in SK4
Localities
Heatons, Brinnington, Stockport, Didsbury
Local authority
Manchester, Stockport
Country
England
Centre postcode
SK4 4HN
Postcode-point mapHeaton Moor
The pin uses Postcodes.io coordinates, not an exact entrance or title boundary.
Point sources need one coordinate, so these are anchored on SK4 4PD — the live postcode nearest the centre of the area. They describe that point, not every street. Crime is counted across the whole Town Centre policing neighbourhood, which is the Police.uk boundary containing SK4 4PD — a named area can span several of them, so this is the one covering the centre of Heaton Moor, not all of it. Each keeps its source, its geography and its limits. Counts are counts: an incident total is not a safety measure, and an empty planning result is not a completed search.
Police.uk · Town Centre neighbourhood
Recorded incidents
Connected
0records in July 2026
One month of records for the Town Centre policing neighbourhood — the boundary police.uk itself shows, so this figure should match theirs. Not a year. Locations are anonymised to a nearby street, not an address. Counts are not adjusted for population, visitors or reporting differences and must not be treated as a neighbourhood quality score.
Application-level planning data comes from the Planning London Datahub, which covers the 35 London planning authorities. No other authority publishes an equivalent feed, so nothing has been substituted.
Daily essentials
Supermarkets, pharmacies, healthcare, gyms and libraries mapped near SK4 4PD, ordered by straight-line distance. OpenStreetMap is contributed data: a place missing here is not proof it does not exist, and nothing here confirms opening hours or that a business is still trading.
11everyday places mapped within 1.2 km of the postcode point
Places mapped in OpenStreetMap within this distance of the postcode point, measured straight-line, and kept only where the map tags them as the kind of place the heading claims. OpenStreetMap is volunteer-maintained and this search returns the closest matches rather than every one: a short list is not proof that nothing else is there. Distances are not walking routes, and nothing here checks opening hours, whether a surgery is accepting patients, or whether a place is still trading.
Parks and green space
Parks, playgrounds, nature and outdoor sport mapped within 1.5 km of SK4 4PD, ordered by straight-line distance. Distance is not a walking route, and OpenStreetMap says nothing about whether a space is open to the public, its hours or its condition.
10open spaces mapped within 1.5 km of the postcode point
Parks and commons
8
Named parks, commons and village greens open to the public.
242 mSt Andrew's FieldHeaton Moor, The Four HeatonsMap ↗
408 mHeaton Moor ParkHeaton Moor, The Four HeatonsMap ↗
754 mPeel Moat Open SpaceHeaton Moor, The Four HeatonsMap ↗
891 mThornfield ParkHeaton Moor, The Four HeatonsMap ↗
1.0 kmManchester Road ParkThe Four Heatons, StockportMap ↗
1.1 kmMaunders FieldHeaton Mersey, The Four HeatonsMap ↗
1.2 kmGrafton Street Play AreaHeaton Norris, The Four HeatonsMap ↗
1.2 kmBowerfold OpenspaceHeaton Norris, The Four HeatonsMap ↗
Playgrounds
1
Children’s play areas mapped as such.
451 mHeaton moor park playgroudBuckingham Road, Heaton MoorMap ↗
Places mapped in OpenStreetMap within this distance of the postcode point, measured straight-line, and kept only where the map tags them as the kind of place the heading claims. OpenStreetMap is volunteer-maintained and this search returns the closest matches rather than every one: a short list is not proof that nothing else is there. Distances are not walking routes, and nothing here checks opening hours, whether a surgery is accepting patients, or whether a place is still trading.
Local authorityStockportCurrent · ONS Postcode Directory via Postcodes.io
Everyday life
Residents can enjoy a range of local shops and cafes along the main road, while also having easy access to a large park for leisure activities and relaxation, making it suitable for families and those looking for a balanced lifestyle.
Housing character
The area features a mix of interwar and post-war housing stock, including semi-detached homes and apartments, offering a range of choices for buyers and renters, with some properties boasting large gardens and mature surroundings.
Getting around
Heaton Moor benefits from regular bus services connecting residents to Stockport town centre and surrounding areas, while a nearby railway station provides further transport links, making it relatively easy to get around without a car.
Things to investigate
Those interested in exploring Heaton Moor should research local schools, community groups, and leisure facilities, as well as investigating the range of housing options available, to get a better sense of whether the area meets their needs and preferences.
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
12 schools
Judged by Ofsted
10
At least Good
9
Outstanding or equivalent
0
Below Good
1
Secondarystate-funded, within 5 km
14 schools
Judged by Ofsted
14
At least Good
10
Outstanding or equivalent
2
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
£314,495average house price across Stockport, June 2026
A year earlier the same measure was £303,951, a change of +3.5%.
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.
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
Heaton Moor, taken as the SK4 postcode district. 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.