Bevington Bush in North West has a Check Local Score of 44/100 (fair), drawn from official data on safety, schools, transport, housing, amenities and the local environment, each measured against the national average — a score of 60 is typical for the country.
Bevington Bush announces itself in blocks of flats and converted terraces rather than semis with front gardens — this is dense, urban Liverpool, the kind of streetscape where postwar low-rise housing sits close against the city centre's edge. The population skews young, median age under 25, and that shapes everything else: this reads as a renter's and first-buyer's district, not a place where families settle for the long haul.
Getting around is the area's strongest card. Six rail stations serve the area, including Moorfields and Liverpool Lime Street, so a car-free commute into central Liverpool or onward is genuinely easy — the transport grade here sits well above the national average. Schools are a thinner story: only two schools are counted locally, and of the named ones, Notre Dame Catholic Academy is rated Requires Improvement while Pleasant Street Primary holds a Good rating. That's workable if you're not raising older children here, less so if secondary schooling is a priority.
Housing tells its own quiet story. The market is dominated by leasehold flats — 180 of 218 recent sales — with a median price of around £120,000, less than half the national figure and comfortably below Liverpool's own median too. Only about one in ten sales here is freehold. A "For Sale" board on this street is almost always advertising a flat on a lease, not a house you'll ever fully own outright, and rents around £905 a month reflect a transient, city-fringe market rather than a settled one. Green space is present but modest — 23 sites across the area, a little under 16 hectares — enough for a local park but not for long dog walks in open country.
The one grade that breaks the pattern is safety, sitting at a D against strong marks everywhere else — health, nightlife, transport and affordability all read well above average, which is the real tension here. Crime levels run far above the Liverpool district average, with violence and sexual offences and drugs offences making up nearly half of all recorded incidents. That's the trade-off in plain terms: you get outstanding connectivity, a lively nightlife scene, and prices that make ownership accessible, set against a safety picture that needs going in with eyes open. This suits someone young, mobile, and drawn to city-centre life more than someone seeking a quiet, settled family base — the data points that way without needing to spell it out twice.
Data last updated: 15 August 2026
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