Clock Face
Suburb · 4,250 residents
44Fair
Fair · among the lowest-scoring 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 73, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Road noise reaches 49% of the area
- Food & drink scores 15, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Clock Face
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Clock Face a good place to live?
Clock Face scores 44/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (73).
It scores lowest on food & drink (15) and schools (32).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Clock Face in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Clock Face
Clock Face reads like a lot of St Helens' quieter edges: terraces and semis on modest plots, cars parked nose-to-tail outside, nothing flashy on the high street, nothing pretending to be. It's a settled, working suburb rather than a destination, and it looks like one — the kind of place where the housing stock does the talking rather than any shopfront.
The numbers behind the front doors tell a consistent story of affordability. A median house price around £123,000 sits well below both the regional figure and the national one, and even against its own parent authority of St Helens it comes in noticeably cheaper. Most sales here are semi-detached freeholds, which is exactly what the street view suggests — this is owner-occupier territory, not a rental or new-build estate, with not a single new build in the recent sample. For a family in a semi with the mortgage well under control, that low council tax band and the affordability grade sitting at the top of the pile will matter more than most other numbers in this piece. Schools are more mixed: Sherdley Primary and St Theresa's Catholic Primary give solid, ordinary options, but Willow Tree Primary has been rated as requiring improvement, and the area's overall schools grade lags behind its housing and safety scores — worth a visit before you commit to a catchment. Lea Green Rail Station gives a way out for commuters, and with a median age of around 39 this reads as a place people settle into rather than pass through.