Blackburn
Neighbourhood · 3 residents
62Good
Good · better than 6 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
- 100% of residents live within five minutes of a park
- Transport scores 70, well above the typical 60
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- Road noise reaches 90% of the area
- Food & drink scores 35, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Blackburn
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Blackburn a good place to live?
Blackburn scores 62/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (82) and transport (70).
It scores lowest on food & drink (35).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Blackburn in Yorkshire and The Humber, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Blackburn
Terraced streets dominate this pocket of Blackburn, packed in tighter than most of Yorkshire and The Humber, with the kind of dense, close-set housing that tells you this was built for workers near the interchange rather than for anyone seeking space. It reads as a settled, older-skewing community rather than a young professional magnet — the average age here runs a little above the national figure, and the population density is a fair bit higher than the regional norm. This isn't a polished suburb; it's a working one, and it looks like it.
On the practical side, the picture is mixed in an interesting way. You've got the Meadowhall Interchange on the doorstep, which means genuinely good connectivity — the area's transport grade sits well above the national average — but the school offer is thinner on detail: Hinde House 2-16 Academy and Brigantia Hill Fort Academy serve the area without Ofsted ratings attached in the records here, so you'd want to check current inspection status yourself before banking on either. Housing is overwhelmingly terraced and semi-detached, split evenly between freehold and leasehold, and it's cheap by national standards — a median sale price around £152,000 against a national median north of £280,000. That affordability is real: this is priced roughly a quarter below even Sheffield, its parent city, which is itself one of the more affordable urban markets in the country. A "For Sale" board here is advertising entry-level ownership, not aspiration.