M60 2UU Manchester

Live postcode, introduced February 2006. Ward: Deansgate. Region: North West.

Streets

No addresses are linked to this postcode in the ONS UPRN Directory.

Council tax

What each band costs in Manchester in 2026-27: Band D £2,312 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,541£1,798£2,055£2,312£2,826£3,340£3,853£4,624

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band E (39% of about 750 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this postcode; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: yes, Albert Square (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings within 100 m of this postcode: 24.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted within 100 m of this postcode. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Flood risk

The Environment Agency's long-term flood risk figures have not been loaded for this postcode yet.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

Broadband

No Ofcom figures for this postcode.

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsManchester Oxford Road 6.4 million journeys in 2024–25610 m
Deansgate 1.7 million journeys in 2024–25710 m
Salford Central 815,000 journeys in 2024–25800 m
Underground, metro or tramSt Peter's Square (Manchester Metrolink)150 m
Market Street (Manchester Metrolink)480 m
Piccadilly Gardens (Manchester Metrolink)510 m
Bus stops27 stops within 400 m, 120 within 800 m; nearest Manchester Town Hall Albert Square60 m
Bus or coach stationPiccadilly Gardens420 m
Car parks37 within 800 m; nearest Very Tight Underground Car Park – Compact Cars Only – 1.75m Height170 m
EV charging points19 within 1.6 km; nearest Be.EV Charging Station380 m
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN14.6 km

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km; nearest City Health Centre400 m
Pharmacies11 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Cameolord Pharmacy300 m
NHS dentists13 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Malmin Dental Manchester130 m
HospitalNHS Nightingale Hospital North West390 m
Police stationGreater Manchester Police City Centre Public Enquiry Counter60 m
Cash machines11 machines within 800 m; nearest Cashpoint® 42-46 Market Street Lloyds Bank400 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden5 within 800 m; nearest Parsonage Gardens 2,620 m²410 m
Largest park within 800 mPiccadilly Gardens 7,840 m²540 m
Play areaUnnamed 90 m²1.1 km
Playing fieldUnnamed 8,120 m²1.2 km
AllotmentsHartfield Close Allotments 890 m²1.6 km

Within 800 m: 5 parks and gardens, 2.0 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Town Hall, a listed building (Grade I), 0 m. 437 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 10 of them Grade I and 35 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
Town HallListed building, Grade I0 m
Albert MemorialListed building, Grade I50 m north-west
Town Hall ExtensionListed building, Grade II*80 m south
Manchester Law LibraryListed building, Grade II*90 m north-east
The Hanging Bridge immediately south of Manchester CathedralScheduled monument610 m north
Remains of eastern wall of the Roman fortScheduled monument780 m south-west
Peel ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.0 km north-west
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
Dale Street BasinLake or reservoir910 m east
Saint George's IslandIsland1.4 km south-west
Choral GroveWood2.1 km north-west
South BayLake or reservoir3.0 km south-west
Kersal ValeValley3.7 km north
Castle HillHill4.1 km north-west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the postcode's centre. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)22.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.3205
Particles (PM10)13.54015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

No addresses here are in the mapped area.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this postcode is in: 357 residents in 210 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this postcodeEngland
Median age2940
Children under 157%17%
Aged 65 and over2%18%

Homes

Around this postcodeEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)23%61%
Owned outright8%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented76%21%

Work and commuting

Around this postcodeEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work71%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)4%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)0%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)55%32%
Travel to work by car or van12%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram10%4%
By any public transport, including bus16%8%
On foot or by bicycle15%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)76%65%
Work 30 km or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this postcodeEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)74%34%
No qualifications2%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)70%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 5 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.