Aspull Common
Suburb · 796 residents
71Very good
Very good · better than 8 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- 71% of residents live within five minutes of a park
- Affordability scores 82, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 20% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Road noise reaches 50% of the area
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Aspull Common
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Aspull Common a good place to live?
Aspull Common scores 71/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (92) and affordability (82).
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 Aspull Common in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Aspull Common
Aspull Common has the look of a place built by families for families: semi-detached and terraced streets in roughly equal measure, pebble-dashed and privet-hedged, with the odd detached house on the better roads. There's no high street buzz to speak of here — this is a residential pocket of Wigan borough, not a destination, and it doesn't pretend otherwise.
The numbers back up what you'd guess from walking round: a median age of just under 44 says this is a settled, middle-aged and older population rather than a young professionals' enclave, and with only one bus stop logged for the whole area, you'll want your own car rather than relying on public transport for the daily commute. Schools follow the same "solid, unspectacular" pattern — Lowton Church of England High School carries a Good Ofsted rating, though its progress 8 score of -0.17 suggests pupils there make slightly less academic progress than the national average would predict. For primary-age children, Lowton St Mary's CofE and Gilded Hollins Community School serve the area, though neither has a published inspection grade in this dataset.
Housing is where Aspull Common quietly makes its case. A typical semi-detached freehold here sells for around £245,000, and terraces go for about £160,000 — both comfortably below the national medians for those property types (£273,000 and £230,000 respectively), even though prices locally sit close to 28% above the wider Wigan borough figure. Council tax band D bills of £1,291 undercut both the national and regional averages too. Put simply: a For Sale board on one of these streets is advertising affordability relative to the country, even if it's pricier than the Wigan average it sits inside. That affordability grade of A is the standout on an otherwise unremarkable, solidly respectable set of scores — connectivity, environment and transport all land at a comfortable B+, health at B, and nightlife trails behind at C+, which tells you this is a sleep-and-commute suburb, not a night-out destination.