Holt
Suburb · 88 residents
59Good
Good · better than 5 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
- Affordability scores 79, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Road noise reaches 91% of the area
- Food & drink scores 37, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Holt
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Holt a good place to live?
Holt scores 59/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (79).
It scores lowest on food & drink (37).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Holt in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Holt
Detached houses on decent-sized plots, mostly owned outright rather than rented, and a street pattern that feels more village edge than metropolitan district — that's the first impression Holt gives, and it's a slightly misleading one given where it actually sits.
The numbers back up that first look, and also complicate it. A median house price around £215,000 is nearly a fifth higher than the Knowsley average, and detached homes dominate what little turns over here — of the recent sales, six of fourteen were detached, sold freehold rather than leasehold. That's the story a For Sale board tells: settled owner-occupiers, not a churn of buy-to-let flats. Set against the wider country, Holt is roughly mid-table on deprivation — a decile 6 that's unremarkable nationally but comfortably above its immediate surroundings, which is really the more useful comparison here. Income levels are more middling, decile 4, which hints at a place where the housing wealth is older and settled rather than freshly earned.
The one figure that jars against that comfortable picture is crime, and it's worth sitting with rather than skating past. Holt's crime rate runs over twelve times higher than the Knowsley average, with violence and sexual offences alone accounting for more than half of all recorded incidents. Given the population here is small, a relatively modest count of incidents can swing the rate hard — small-area statistics behave like that — but it's still the number that punctures the otherwise settled, semi-rural feel of the streetscape. The safety grade lands respectably in the same B+ band as connectivity, environment and transport, so this reads as a place that scores well on the things you can see and feel day to day, with crime as the outlier that doesn't fit the pattern.