Burtonwood
Village · 3,071 residents
72Very good
Very good · better than 8 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
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 50 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- 88% of residents live within five minutes of a park
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Food & drink scores 38, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Burtonwood
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Burtonwood a good place to live?
Burtonwood scores 72/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (82) and environment (72).
It scores lowest on food & drink (38).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Burtonwood in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Burtonwood
Burtonwood looks like what it is: a village stitched into the edge of St Helens, where terraced and semi-detached houses sit along quiet residential roads and the pace is set by people who've been there a while rather than people passing through. The median age north of fifty tells you plenty before you even see the place — this isn't a village filling up with first-time buyers, it's one where households have settled in and stayed.
For house hunters, the number that matters is the gap between here and everywhere else: a median house price of around £200,000 against a national figure well above £280,000, and even below the regional norm for the North West. Against St Helens itself, the parent borough, Burtonwood actually runs a shade pricier — about 5% above the borough median — which tells you this is one of the steadier, more established corners of the district rather than its bargain end. The sales mix backs this up: terraced houses dominate, freehold is the norm (seven of ten sales), and nothing here is new-build — you're buying into existing housing stock, not a fresh estate. A for-sale board on one of these streets is advertising a modest, unflashy, already-lived-in kind of home, not a show house.
On schooling, the village runs two primaries — Burtonwood Community Primary, rated Good, and St Paul of the Cross Catholic Primary alongside it — which covers the early years well enough, though there's no secondary option in the village itself, so that's a factor to plan around rather than assume. Safety is where Burtonwood quietly pulls ahead: the crime rate sits around half that of St Helens as a whole, and the trend line is marked as improving, not just steady. Violence and sexual offences account for the largest single share of incidents, which is true of most places this size, but the overall volume — 68 incidents across a year in a population of 1,500 — is low enough that the "A" grade for safety doesn't feel like a stretch. Connectivity is solid too, with full fibre reaching over 90% of the village, so working from home here isn't a compromise.