Hooten Gardens
Suburb · 44 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 77, well above the typical 60
- 52% of residents live within five minutes of a park
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 17% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Road noise reaches 51% of the area
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Hooten Gardens
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Hooten Gardens a good place to live?
Hooten Gardens scores 59/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (77) and environment (73).
It scores lowest on health (26).
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 Hooten Gardens in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Hooten Gardens
Hooten Gardens sits low-rise and terraced, the kind of streetscape where pebble-dashed semis sit next to older brick rows and nobody's front garden is trying to impress anyone. It reads as settled rather than aspirational — a place people tend to stay rather than pass through, and at 44 the median age backs that up: this isn't a first-rung suburb full of new arrivals, it's one where families have already put down roots.
The housing picture tells the same story from a different angle. Terraced homes dominate the sales here, most sold freehold, and the median price of around £204,000 sits well under both the regional figure and the national one — this is a cheaper corner of an already affordable region, with detached and semi-detached homes both trading below what you'd pay for the equivalent elsewhere in the North West. Against Wigan itself, prices actually run about 13% higher, so it's not the cheapest pocket of the borough, just an inexpensive one nationally. On schooling, Bedford High School and Bedford Hall Methodist Primary both carry Good ratings, and St Mary's Catholic High School adds a larger Catholic secondary option into the mix — solid, unspectacular schooling that matches the area's overall B-grade rather than reaching for outstanding.