Burnage and Levenhulme

Lining the main route between Manchester and Stockport, Levenshulme and the neighbouring areas of M19 – including Burnage, Kingsway and West Point – form a vibrant, diverse and fast‑growing community. The district has seen a significant rise in independent businesses over recent years, with more cafés, bakeries, bars, restaurants and boutique retailers energising the local high street and boosting its reputation as one of South Manchester’s most creative and culturally rich neighbourhoods.

Families benefit from the area’s strong selection of Ofsted‑rated ‘Outstanding’ and ‘Good’ schools, including Alma Park Primary, Chapel Street Primary, St Bernard’s Primary, St Mary’s Primary and Levenshulme High School for Girls. Green spaces such as Cringle Park, Greenbank Playing Fields, Highfield Country Park, and the popular Fallowfield Loop cycling and walking trail provide excellent outdoor lifestyle options.

Local amenities offer a well‑balanced mix of longstanding staples and exciting new ventures, from Station South cycle café, to Levenshulme Antiques Village, and the Arcadia Library & Leisure Centre, making the area particularly attractive to families, commuters, creatives and young professionals.

Sitting on the A6 corridor between Manchester city centre and Stockport, the M19 postcode covers Levenshulme and Burnage — two neighbouring suburbs with very different characters. Levenshulme has become one of Manchester’s fastest-gentrifying areas, known for its independent food and drink scene and creative community, while Burnage offers a quieter, more traditional family suburb built around one of the city’s early garden villages. Together they give buyers real choice within a single postcode.

The Property Market

M19 offers a strong mix of Victorian and Edwardian terraced housing, with more spacious semis further out.

Types of property:

• Period terraces — the dominant property type across Levenshulme, particularly around Stockport Road and the streets running off it, many retaining original period features
• Semi-detached houses — especially common in Burnage, much of which was developed as a “garden suburb” in 1906 with tree-lined avenues, gardens and recreational spaces
• Flats and apartments — a smaller but growing share of the market, including conversions and purpose-built blocks
• Student and HMO properties — a notable part of the market close to the Fallowfield and Rusholme borders, popular with investors given the area’s proximity to the universities

Average prices: M19 has an overall average sold price of around £286,700, with terraced houses averaging roughly £262,700, semi-detached homes around £345,800, and flats around £137,100. Levenshulme specifically averages around £278,400, while Burnage — generally regarded as the more premium of the two — averages closer to £305,900, with semis there fetching around £336,700. As with any inner-city postcode, prices vary considerably street to street, so it’s worth getting a specific valuation for any property you’re considering.

Who’s Buying in M19

M19 attracts a genuinely broad mix of buyers, reflecting the different character of its two halves:

• First-time buyers and young professionals, particularly in Levenshulme, drawn by relative affordability compared with neighbouring Didsbury and Chorlton, plus a growing café and bar scene
• Families, especially in Burnage, attracted by its quieter, more suburban feel and wellregarded local schools
• Buy-to-let and student investors, given the strong rental demand from the nearby university areas of Fallowfield and Rusholme
• Second-steppers, increasingly priced out of Didsbury and West Didsbury, moving into M19 for more space at a lower price point

Both areas have a multicultural, diverse population, and Levenshulme in particular has seen significant demographic change in recent years as younger buyers move in alongside its long-established communities.

Transport Links

M19 is well served by rail, with two separate lines running through the postcode:

• Levenshulme railway station sits on the West Coast Main Line spur, roughly 3 miles from Manchester Piccadilly, with four trains an hour off-peak and a journey time of around 10 minutes, plus onward services towards Stockport, Alderley Edge, Crewe and Buxton
• Burnage railway station, on the Styal Line, offers direct services to Manchester Piccadilly in around 12 minutes, as well as trains towards Manchester Airport and Crewe
• Mauldeth Road station, just north of Burnage, provides an additional option on the same line
• The 192 bus, which runs along Stockport Road through Levenshulme, is reportedly the busiest bus route in Great Britain, running every 5–10 minutes into the city centre
• The Fallowfield Loop — a traffic-free cycling and walking path built along a former railway line — runs through Levenshulme, connecting to Fallowfield, Chorlton and beyond
• By road, the A6 runs directly through the postcode connecting Manchester city centre and Stockport, with easy access to the wider motorway network via the M60

Schools

Families in M19 have access to a number of well-regarded schools, particularly in Burnage:

• Green End Primary School (Ofsted: Outstanding)
• St Bernard’s RC Primary School — a popular local Catholic primary on Burnage Lane
• Acacias Primary School — one of Burnage’s three main primary schools
• Burnage Academy for Boys — the area’s secondary school, a former grammar school that converted to academy status in 2014
• Levenshulme High School — a well-regarded secondary school for girls, also serving the wider area

Parks & Green Space

Both halves of M19 have good access to green space, from formal parks to nature reserve style open land:

• Highfield Country Park — a 70-acre Local Nature Reserve on the eastern edge of Levenshulme, transformed from a former landfill and brickworks site into mapped country walks and picnic areas
• Cringle Park — a popular Levenshulme park with a children’s play area, football and basketball courts, tennis courts and a boxing club
• Fog Lane Park — one of Manchester’s earliest public parks, on the Burnage/Didsbury border, with bowling greens, tennis courts, wildlife ponds and a sensory garden
• Burnage Lane Park — a smaller, quieter neighbourhood green space popular with local families
• The Fallowfield Loop also provides a long, flat, traffic-free route for walking, running and cycling

Bars, Restaurants & Cafés

Levenshulme’s food and drink scene has grown rapidly and is a big part of its appeal, with Stockport Road as the main strip:

Restaurants: Abaseen, My Nawaab, and Khan’s Biryani and Pilau (all well-regarded for South Asian food), Aunty Ji’s, Rhythm & Spice (Caribbean), Alborz (Persian), and Fire & Ice, a US diner-inspired spot known for burgers and Philly cheesesteaks
Bars and pubs: The Talleyrand (an arts bar and music venue), The Klondyke (a converted bowling club hosting live music and community events), Isca (a natural wine bar with a seasonal small-plates menu), and Bia Cafe Bar
Cafés and coffee shops: Station South, a community-run cycle café based in the beautifully restored former Levenshulme South station building, is a particular local landmark

Burnage’s own food and drink scene is more modest and centred on everyday local pubs and takeaways, with residents often heading into Levenshulme, Didsbury or the city centre for a wider choice of dining and nightlife.

Local Amenities

Levenshulme’s Stockport Road is also home to the Levenshulme Antiques Village, a wellknown destination for vintage and unique finds, alongside the Arcadia Library and Leisure Centre, which includes a swimming pool. Burnage benefits from everyday amenities along Burnage Lane and Kingsway, including a 24-hour supermarket, local shops and convenient bus and rail links, making it a practical, well-connected base for families and commuters alike.