Grange Park Estate
Suburb · 6,182 residents
37Modest
Modest · 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 78, well above the typical 60
- 82% of residents live within five minutes of a park
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- Food & drink scores 15, below the typical 60
- Schools scores 34, below the typical 60
- Safety scores 39, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Grange Park Estate
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Grange Park Estate a good place to live?
Grange Park Estate scores 37/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as modest — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (78) and environment (70).
It scores lowest on food & drink (15) and schools (34).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Grange Park Estate in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Grange Park Estate
Grange Park Estate is rows of semi-detached and terraced houses, pebble-dashed and close-set, the kind of streets where a "For Sale" board tends to mean a freehold semi changing hands rather than a leasehold flat — of the recent sales here, most were semis, and freehold is very much the norm rather than the exception.
The numbers place this firmly among the most deprived parts of the country, both by income and by the wider deprivation measure, and the housing market reflects it starkly: a median house price around £105,000 sits well below Blackpool's own borough-wide figure, let alone the regional or national picture, where a typical home costs three times as much. That affordability is real and it's the main reason people can get on the property ladder here at an age when others are still renting. What it buys, though, comes with a trade-off the grades make plain: schools locally sit below the national Ofsted average, and the two secondary options in the wider area — St Mary's Catholic Academy rated Good, Blackpool Aspire Academy rated Requires Improvement — both post negative Progress 8 scores, meaning pupils tend to make less academic progress than the national norm regardless of which one they attend. Transport, by contrast, is a genuine strength, with a good density of stops feeding into the wider Blackpool network, so getting around without a car is more realistic here than the housing figures might suggest.