Catchdale Moss
Suburb · 674 residents
60Good
Good · better than 5 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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What’s good
- Affordability scores 82, well above the typical 60
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 31 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Food & drink scores 30, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Catchdale Moss
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Is Catchdale Moss a good place to live?
Catchdale Moss scores 60/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (82) and safety (70).
It scores lowest on food & drink (30).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Catchdale Moss in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Catchdale Moss
Semi-detached houses on quiet cul-de-sacs, older cars kept clean on driveways, hardly anyone under 40 pushing a pram — Catchdale Moss reads as a settled, older suburb rather than a starter-home estate. The median age here sits well above the national figure, and once you're on the ground it shows: this is a place people move to and then stay, not pass through.
That stability shows up in the numbers that matter for peace of mind. This sits in the top income and deprivation decile nationally — as well-off as England gets — and the crime picture backs that up, running well below the rate in St. Helens overall, the borough it belongs to. But there's a genuine catch: nearly half of recorded crime here is violence and sexual offences, a share that stands out against an otherwise low-crime picture, and it's the one grade that doesn't match the rest of the report card. Schools, too, sit lower than you'd expect for an area this comfortable — the single sampled school, St Julie's Catholic Primary, is a small voluntary-aided primary without a published Ofsted rating in this data, and the wider schools grade trails the area's affordability and safety scores. With only two transport stops recorded, this isn't a place built around a rail commute; you'd be arranging your week around a car or bus, not a station.
Housing here is unambiguous: freehold semi-detached homes dominate the sales record, the kind of stock built for people who bought once and never needed to move again. At a median price around £370,000, you're paying roughly a third above the national average and well above what similar semis fetch regionally — a premium for the low crime and the postcode's standing, not for square footage. Green space is thin on paper, just one recorded plot under a hectare, so this isn't an area that trades on parks or scenery; you're buying calm streets, not country walks. Day-to-day life leans domestic rather than social — with population density well below the national average and next to no nightlife grade to speak of, this reads as a place for quiet evenings in rather than a night out on the doorstep.