Curzon Park
Suburb · 658 residents
68Good
Good · better than 8 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
- Food & drink scores 87, well above the typical 60
- Affordability scores 76, well above the typical 60
- 79% of residents live within five minutes of a park
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 25% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Curzon Park
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Curzon Park a good place to live?
Curzon Park scores 68/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for food & drink (87) and affordability (76).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Curzon Park in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Curzon Park
Curzon Park is the kind of place where the driveways are as wide as the houses are detached, and the cars parked on them tend to be recent. You won't find much passing trade here — no parade of shops, no queue for a bus — just wide plots, mature hedging, and the quiet that comes from people having enough space that they don't need to be on the street to enjoy their own garden. The median age of just over fifty tells you this isn't a starter-home suburb; it's somewhere people move to once they've already done the moving around.
The property story backs that up directly: sales here skew heavily detached and freehold, with the typical detached home going for £585,000 against a national figure closer to £420,000 — this is a place bought outright or with serious equity behind it, not a first-rung purchase. That fits the wider economic picture too. An income decile of 9 and an IMD decile of 8 put Curzon Park among the more comfortable corners of the North West, and the local median house price sits 74% above the level typical for Cheshire West and Chester as a whole, which is itself not a cheap authority. Council tax reflects it — a Band D bill running above both the national and regional medians.
Where it gets more interesting is safety, and this is the one figure worth sitting with. The crime rate here runs dramatically higher than the Cheshire West and Chester average, driven almost entirely by two categories — violence and sexual offences, and shoplifting — each accounting for over a quarter of recorded incidents. For a suburb of under 700 people with detached houses and hedgerows, that's a striking pattern, and it usually means the numbers are being pulled by a retail or town-centre pocket within the wider crime-reporting area rather than by anything happening on Curzon Park's own driveways. The safety grade still lands respectably in the B+ band and the trend is flat, not worsening, so it's a detail to understand rather than a reason to walk away — but it's worth asking a local how the boundary is drawn before you commit.