Ainsworth
Village · 1,544 residents
50Fair
Fair · among the lowest-scoring villages
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- Affordability scores 71, well above the typical 60
- Transport scores 71, well above the typical 60
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Health scores 26, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Ainsworth
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Ainsworth a good place to live?
Ainsworth scores 50/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (71) and transport (71).
It scores lowest on health (26).
Safety isn't scored here: street-level police data for the area is incomplete, so the overall score leaves it out.
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Ainsworth in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Ainsworth
Ainsworth reads as a small stone-and-hedgerow village rather than a suburb of anywhere — terraced and semi-detached houses along quiet lanes, a scatter of detached homes, and a population you could fit into a couple of large streets. There's no high street clamour here; this is the kind of place where you recognise cars.
The numbers back up that impression of a settled, unremarkable-in-a-good-way corner of Bury. An overall grade sitting well above the national average, with the environment graded even higher still, points to a village that's greener and quieter than most of England, while transport also scores strongly despite there being no rail station in the picture — thirteen local stops suggest the bus, not the train, is how people actually get around. Housing and affordability sit closer to the national average, which is really the story: Ainsworth doesn't feel expensive for what it is, even though on paper a typical sale here comes in above the wider North West figure and roughly one and a half per cent above Bury itself. Schooling is thinner on the ground — Christ Church Ainsworth Church of England Primary is the only school actually in the village, an academy without a published Ofsted rating in this data, so families weighing schools will likely be looking just outside the boundary as much as within it.