Farnworth
Suburb · 76 residents
45Fair
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 88, well above the typical 60
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- Road noise reaches 70% of the area
- Food & drink scores 17, below the typical 60
- Health scores 23, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Farnworth a good place to live?
Farnworth scores 45/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (88).
It scores lowest on food & drink (17) and health (23).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Farnworth in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Farnworth
Farnworth's streets are dominated by detached houses on generous plots, the kind of place where driveways matter and front gardens are kept tidy rather than paved over. This is a suburb built for people who've already done the hard climbing — the median age sits around 43, older and more settled than the national average, and it shows in the quiet, unhurried feel of the place rather than any nightlife pulse (that side of things scores weakly, and it's not trying to hide it).
The numbers back up what you'd sense walking round: this sits in the top income and deprivation decile nationally, meaning it's among the least deprived pockets in the country, and a typical detached home here runs to around £370,000 against a national detached median of £420,000 — solid rather than showy. Freehold dominates, nearly nine in ten sales, and with detached houses outnumbering everything else three-to-one in recent sales, a For Sale board here is usually advertising space and permanence, not a flat share or a leasehold flip. Schools are a thinner picture — Lunts Heath Primary is the one named on record here, a sizeable community school, but the area's overall schools grade is middling, so it's worth checking specific catchments rather than assuming quality by postcode alone.
Green space per head runs a little below both the regional and national norm, and there's no standout park or venue in the data to anchor a weekend around, so day-to-day life here leans on the house and garden more than a local high street scene. Broadband is a genuine strength — full-fibre coverage above 87% — which matters if working from home is part of the plan. The one figure that jars against an otherwise comfortable picture is crime: violence and sexual offences make up nearly half of recorded incidents, and the overall crime rate here runs sharply higher than the Halton average, even though the safety grade itself lands at a respectable B+. That gap between the grade and the raw comparison is worth sitting with rather than dismissing — it may reflect how the wider borough compares nationally more than anything specific to these streets, but it's the detail a spreadsheet would smooth over and a friend wouldn't.