Jericho
Suburb · 78 residents
49Fair
Fair · better than 1 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
- Transport scores 71, well above the typical 60
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Road noise reaches 48% of the area
- Food & drink scores 21, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Jericho
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Jericho a good place to live?
Jericho scores 49/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for transport (71).
It scores lowest on food & drink (21).
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 Jericho in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Jericho
Jericho is small enough that you could miss it blinking on the way through Bury, a pocket of semi-detached streets and low-rise flats that reads more village edge than suburb centre. With a population under a thousand and an average age pushing 49, this isn't a place dominated by young families or twenty-something renters — it has the settled, quiet feel of somewhere people stay put rather than pass through.
The housing picture here is distinctive: semi-detached homes dominate what sells, but leasehold is the norm rather than freehold, which is worth sitting with before you get attached to the idea of a classic house-with-garden purchase — a For Sale board here is as likely to mean a flat on a lease as it is a house you fully own. Prices sit close to the Bury average, around £222,500, which puts Jericho roughly in line with its parent district rather than standing out as either a bargain or a stretch — though against the national median it's firmly on the affordable side, and the five-year trend has been essentially flat, so this isn't a market that's been running away in either direction. On the ground, Fairfield Community Primary is the named school in the area; the broader schools grade here is middling rather than a selling point, so if education quality is your main driver, it's worth digging into options beyond the immediate streets.