Gerards Bridge
Suburb · 348 residents
72Very good
Very good · better than 9 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
- 9 GP practices within a short walk
- Affordability scores 79, well above the typical 60
- 93% of residents live within five minutes of a park
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Gerards Bridge
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Gerards Bridge a good place to live?
Gerards Bridge scores 72/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for health (92) and affordability (79).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Gerards Bridge in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Gerards Bridge
Terraced streets dominate here, tight rows built for a working town, and the sales figures back up what you'd see walking them: this is a place of small brick houses passed between landlords rather than owner-occupiers. Nine in ten sales are leasehold, and with a median house price sitting around £120,000 against a national figure closer to £281,000, Gerards Bridge reads as one of the more affordable corners of the country by some distance — a fact confirmed by an affordability grade that sits well above the national average even as the schools and nightlife grades land more modestly.
That price gap matters most set against St Helens itself, the wider borough this suburb belongs to. Gerards Bridge actually prices below even that already-affordable parent area, roughly 30% under it, while its crime rate runs well above the borough's own figure — violence and sexual offences alone account for close to half of all recorded crime locally. That's the one grade in the set that doesn't match the rest of the picture: solid marks for connectivity, environment and transport, then a noticeably plainer safety story underneath. It doesn't mean the streets feel unsafe day to day — 63 incidents across a year in a compact, densely packed suburb is not a lawless place — but it's worth going in with eyes open rather than discovering it after you've signed.
On schools, Holy Cross Catholic Primary carries a Good Ofsted rating, and there are two further primaries in the immediate area, though the overall schools grade lands at C+ rather than anything higher — this reads as a suburb better suited to families who've already chosen a specific school than one where every option nearby is a strong bet. Green space is thin: with well under a hectare of it recorded locally, this isn't an area built around parks, and daily life leans instead on the terraced streets themselves and whatever St Helens town centre offers beyond the boundary. Full fibre broadband reaches over 90% of properties, which for a place this size is a genuinely useful practical point if you work from home.