Hunts Cross
Neighbourhood · 3,638 residents
52Fair
Fair · better than 2 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
- Environment scores 76, well above the typical 60
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- Food & drink scores 38, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Hunts Cross
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Hunts Cross a good place to live?
Hunts Cross scores 52/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (76).
It scores lowest on food & drink (38).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Hunts Cross in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Hunts Cross
Semi-detached houses dominate the streets here, pebble-dashed and privet-hedged in that particular Liverpool suburban way, with terraces and a fair number of flats filling in the gaps. It reads as settled rather than aspirational — the kind of place where cars are Kias and Fords, not badges, and where the median age sitting around 40 tells you most people aren't just passing through.
The practical picture is a decent one for anyone who needs to get into the city without owning a car. Hunts Cross Rail Station sits right in the area, with Liverpool South Parkway also on the doorstep, so this is a genuine commuter belt suburb rather than a car-dependent one — the transport grade backs that up. Schools are more mixed: Hunts Cross Primary School holds a Good rating and The Academy of St Nicholas covers secondary age also rated Good, but the area's overall schools grade lags behind almost everything else on the scorecard, a C+ against a run of Bs, and the Academy's progress 8 score of -1.27 suggests pupils there aren't progressing as well as their starting points would predict. It's the one loose thread in an otherwise coherent picture, worth checking against your own priorities rather than skating past.
Green space is thin on paper — three small plots totalling under two hectares — so this isn't an area built around parkland, though what's there gets used hard rather than admired from a distance. Broadband is solid, with full-fibre reaching the large majority of homes, which matters more than it used to for anyone working from home some of the week. Housing here leans leasehold over freehold, with semi-detached the default sale, and at a median price around £220,000 to £260,000 depending on how you slice it, it undercuts the national figure by a wide margin while sitting close to the regional norm — a place where your money still buys a proper house rather than a compromise. Against Liverpool as a whole, prices run about 31% higher, which tells you this is one of the city's steadier, more established corners rather than its cheapest.