Deane
Suburb · 5,237 residents
57Good
Good · better than 4 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Food & drink scores 33, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Deane
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Is Deane a good place to live?
Deane scores 57/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
No topic reaches "very good" (70+); its best is infrastructure (68).
It scores lowest on food & drink (33).
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 Deane in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Deane
Deane is terraces, end to end — rows of them, mostly let rather than owner-occupied, the kind of streetscape that tells you this is a working suburb rather than a commuter dormitory or a retirement pocket. The median age sits around 33, younger than both Bolton and the national picture, and that shows in the feel of the place: more rented front doors, more comings and goings, less of the settled hush you get in streets where everyone's owned their house for twenty years.
The numbers behind that streetscape are stark in places. Deane sits in the second-poorest decile nationally for deprivation and the very bottom decile for income, and a median house price around £178,000 is roughly a quarter below what you'd pay elsewhere in Bolton, itself already a relatively affordable borough. Nearly nine in ten sales here are leasehold terraces, going for well under the national terraced-house average — a For Sale board on this street is advertising an entry point, not a status symbol. The five-year direction on prices is marked "improving" and has moved up over the past year, so it isn't a place standing still, but it's recovering ground rather than commanding a premium. Schooling is a genuine strength threaded through this: Brandwood Primary and Haslam Park Primary both carry Good ratings, and with 23 transport stops serving a compact, densely packed suburb (population density here runs more than double the national average), most of daily life — school run, shops, bus stop — happens within a tight radius rather than a long commute.