Brownlow Farm
Suburb · 106 residents
49Fair
Fair · better than 1 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
- Affordability scores 77, 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
- Road noise reaches 87% of the area
- Health scores 26, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Brownlow Farm
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Brownlow Farm a good place to live?
Brownlow Farm scores 49/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (77).
It scores lowest on health (26).
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 Brownlow Farm in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Brownlow Farm
Semi-detached houses on quiet, low-density streets, older residents than you'd find in most of England, and almost nobody moving in or out — that's the immediate texture of Brownlow Farm. This is a settled pocket of Wigan, the kind of place where a For Sale board is a rare enough sight that neighbours notice.
That settledness runs right through the numbers. The median age sits close to six years above the national figure, and the sales sample here is dominated by semi-detached freeholds, with detached houses a minority and almost no leasehold or new-build stock breaking up the pattern. A typical semi trades for noticeably less than the national semi-detached median, and the wider price picture — comfortably below the England average and sitting mid-table even against Wigan's own price percentiles — means this is a borough where £250,000 still buys a family home rather than a starter flat. Orrell station gives you a rail option without needing a car for everything, and with council tax bands and rents both below the national norm, the affordability grade here is about as strong as the framework awards.
The grade pattern elsewhere reads consistently solid rather than showy — B+ across housing, transport, connectivity and environment, a B for health and schools, nothing spectacular but nothing alarming either. The one grade that sits apart is nightlife, marked down at C+, which tracks with what you'd expect from a low-density suburb of 850 people rather than a town centre: this is not a place you come to for evenings out. Green space provision runs a little below the regional average per head, though at this population size that's more a statistical quirk than a lived shortage. Crime is genuinely low in absolute terms, just two recorded incidents in the past year, criminal damage the most common thread — but because the base is so small, the rate against Wigan's borough-wide average looks dramatically elevated in percentage terms. Read that as a quirk of small numbers rather than a real safety signal; two incidents in a place this size can swing the percentage wildly without meaning much on the ground.