Booths Hill
Suburb · 89 residents
63Good
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
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 67 per 1,000 people a year against 100
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 16% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Road noise reaches 100% of the area
- Food & drink scores 27, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Booths Hill
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Booths Hill a good place to live?
Booths Hill scores 63/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (72).
It scores lowest on food & drink (27).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Booths Hill in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Booths Hill
Booths Hill is the kind of place where a semi-detached house with a gravel drive tells you most of what you need to know before you've read a single stat. The streets sit low-density by national standards, and with a median age of 47 and a population that barely fills a large housing estate, this reads less as a bustling suburb and more as a settled, mature pocket of Warrington — the sort of address people move to once, then stay.
Property here leans heavily towards semi-detached and terraced homes on freehold titles, which is the traditional owner-occupier pattern rather than a rental churn market — of the sample sold, seven in nine were freehold. That fits the price story too: a median around £340,000 is close to 40% above the Warrington borough average, so this is one of the better-off corners of the wider authority, even though nationally it sits close to the middle of the pack rather than at the very top. Council tax band D bills track close to the national norm, another sign this is comfortable rather than exceptional territory. Broadband is a genuine strength — full fibre reaches over 90% of premises, which matters if you're working from home more than you commute.
Green space is thin on the ground in the strictest sense — just a couple of pockets totalling under half a hectare — so this isn't a place built around a park life; people here are more likely to drive out for their walking and open air than step out the front door for it. The area's overall grade profile is unusually consistent — strong on environment and safety, solidly above-average on affordability, connectivity, health and housing — which makes the one soft spot, nightlife, stand out precisely because it's the exception rather than the rule. That tracks with the numbers: crime here is low in absolute terms, just six incidents logged in the past year, though the local crime rate still runs well above the Warrington-wide average per head — a reminder that raw counts and rates can tell different stories in a small population area. Violence and sexual offences and public order incidents make up half of what's recorded, worth knowing rather than worrying over given how few cases that represents.