Breightmet
Suburb · 4,785 residents
58Good
Good · better than 4 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
- Environment scores 71, 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
- Food & drink scores 24, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Breightmet
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Breightmet a good place to live?
Breightmet scores 58/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (71).
It scores lowest on food & drink (24).
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 Breightmet in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Breightmet
Rows of semi-detached houses dominate here, red-brick and pebble-dashed, the kind of streets built for Bolton's mill workforce and still doing the same job for families a generation or two later. It's a dense little suburb for its size, terraces and semis packed in tighter than you'd expect, and there's little sign of new building — this is settled housing stock, not a place reinventing itself.
The practical picture is mixed in a way that rewards a closer look. There's no rail station listed for the immediate area, so if you commute by train you're planning around a journey elsewhere first; the 38 bus stops scattered through Breightmet suggest a place that runs on buses rather than rail. Schools are thin on the ground too — Red Lane Primary School serves the area, and Bolton St Catherine's Academy covers secondary age locally, though its progress scores suggest pupils there make less progress than the national average, worth weighing if schooling is a priority. Housing is where the numbers turn more favourable: a median price of £175,000 sits close to the cheaper end nationally, and even against Bolton itself, the parent borough, homes here run about 6% cheaper. Most sales are leasehold semis, so check ground rent and lease length before you get attached to a particular street.