Bottom o' th' Moor
Village · 540 residents
58Good
Good · better than 3 in 10 villages
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- Affordability scores 86, well above the typical 60
- Environment scores 72, 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 34, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Bottom o' th' Moor
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Bottom o' th' Moor a good place to live?
Bottom o' th' Moor scores 58/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (86) and environment (72).
It scores lowest on health (34).
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 Bottom o' th' Moor in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Bottom o' th' Moor
Detached stone and brick houses, generous plots, cars on the drive rather than the kerb — Bottom o' th' Moor reads as a village that people move up to, not through. There's no high street to speak of, and that's rather the point: this is a place defined by space around houses rather than shops between them.
The numbers back up what you'd sense walking round: this is a genuinely affluent, low-density corner of Bolton, sitting in the top tier nationally for both income and general prosperity. House prices confirm it — a median around £315,000 puts it roughly two-thirds higher than the wider Bolton borough figure, and detached homes here fetch more than the national detached average too. Three in four sales are freehold, and detached properties dominate the market by a wide margin over terraces and flats, so a For Sale board on this street is usually announcing a family-sized freehold rather than a starter flat. The one school in the picture, Claypool Primary, is a small community school with a couple of hundred pupils — solid rather than flashy, which fits a village where the median age sits over fifty and school-run traffic isn't the defining rhythm of the day. With only three transport stops recorded and no named rail station in range, this reads as a driving village first; anyone commuting by train will be doing so from somewhere else nearby, not from the doorstep.