Blakelow
Suburb · 25 residents
42Fair
Fair · among the lowest-scoring 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
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 40 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Affordability scores 70, 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 11, below the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 16, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Blakelow
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Blakelow a good place to live?
Blakelow scores 42/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (74) and affordability (70).
It scores lowest on health (11) and food & drink (16).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Blakelow in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Blakelow
Semi-detached and detached houses on quiet plots, generous gardens, cars on the drive rather than the street — Blakelow reads as solidly, unshowily well-off, the kind of place where nothing much needs to announce itself.
That impression holds up against the numbers. This is a top-decile spot on both income and deprivation measures, and the house prices confirm it: a median sale around £480,000, well above the Cheshire East figure and roughly 70% above it by the payload's own comparison, with semi-detached homes here fetching £450,000 against a national semi-detached median of £273,000. Every recorded sale in the sample was freehold, and semi-detached stock dominates over detached and terraced — this is a place of family-sized homes bought outright to keep, not flats bought to flip. A median age of 47.4, well above the national 40.4, tells you the street is populated more by settled households than young sharers or first-time buyers.
Day-to-day life centres on very little green space by count — one named area, but a substantial 41.89 hectares of it, so what's there has room to breathe rather than being a token strip. Rental costs sit a little below the national median, council tax at band D is close to the national average, and full-fibre broadband reaches over three-quarters of homes, which matters more than it sounds for anyone weighing up working from home here. Schools average a solid but unspectacular Ofsted picture — good, not exceptional, and worth checking against your own children's needs rather than assuming the area's wealth guarantees it.