Old Trafford is in Greater Manchester, directly south-west of Manchester city centre.

Old Trafford is the site of two major sporting venues; Old Trafford Football Stadium and Old Trafford Cricket Ground (home of Manchester United F.C. and Lancashire County Cricket Club respectively).

The stadia are at either end of Warwick Road, two parts of which have been renamed Brian Statham Way (formerly Warwick Road) and Sir Matt Busby Way (formerly Warwick Road North). The interconnecting strip of road between retains the name Warwick Road, and the southern section on the other side of the Metrolink line is called Warwick Road South.

Today, Old Trafford has approximately 13,000 residents. Cultural diversity has been a feature of the area for over a century

Old Trafford is among the 10% most deprived areas in England, suffering problems of unemployment, poor housing and low educational achievement. It also has levels of youth crime well above the national average.

Ayres Road and its environs are the heart of modern day Old Trafford and a walk down this road gives a real flavour of the multi-cultural nature of the neighbourhood, with its variety of grocers' shops selling food stuffs from Europe, the Caribbean and South-East Asia; its Catholic church, St. Alphonsus, frequented by a predominantly Irish congregation, and Shizhan House, the Chinese Medicine Centre, on the site of the old Vimto offices. Something of this atmosphere is evoked by Manchester poet Lemn Sissay in his poem Ayres Road.

Only 45% of the residents of Clifford ward (the ward that contains the larger part of Old Trafford) reported themselves as being Christian in the 2001 Census, compared to 76% across Trafford as a whole, and 72% across England. This is reflected in the unusually high number of non Christian places of worship in the area.

Since the 1980s Old Trafford has become home to two large South Asian communities – Gujarati Indians and Pakistani Urdu speakers – almost all being Muslim. Muslims represent the largest non-Christian religious group in the area, with 28% of the population, compared to 3% in the whole of Trafford. To service this community there are four mosques in the area.

There is also a smaller Sikh community, with its own Gurdwara,  Upper Chorlton Road. Sikhs account for 4% of the area's population, significantly above the less than 1% average for Trafford and England. To further add to the religious mix there is also a Buddhist temple, although Buddhists are recorded as making up only 0.2% of the area's population, roughly the same proportion as for Jews.

Education

Along with the rest of Trafford, Old Trafford maintains a selective education system assessed by the Eleven Plus examination. There is only one secondary school in Old Trafford; a private, female-only, Muslim secondary school  but there are three primary schools within the area.

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Reference:

[1] http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk

[2] Wikipedia