Light Bourne Green
Suburb · 157 residents
60Good
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
- 100% of residents live within five minutes of a park
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Road noise reaches 96% of the area
- Food & drink scores 37, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Light Bourne Green
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Light Bourne Green a good place to live?
Light Bourne Green scores 60/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (74).
It scores lowest on food & drink (37).
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 Light Bourne Green in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Light Bourne Green
Light Bourne Green reads as a small pocket of semi-detached streets rather than a destination in its own right — the kind of place where a population barely into three figures tells you this is residential in the quiet, settled sense, not the postcard sense. There's no high street energy to speak of here; the character comes from the housing itself, and from a density that, perhaps surprisingly for somewhere this small, runs close to the national average rather than feeling rural.
The property picture is fairly legible: eight recent sales, five of them semi-detached, every single one freehold. That's a street of modest family houses bought outright rather than flats on long leases — a For Sale board here is selling a proper house, not a slice of a block. At a median of around £243,500, prices sit comfortably above both the regional median and Salford's borough-wide figure, roughly 11% above the parent area, though still some way under the steeper end of the North West's price ladder. Council tax at Band D runs a touch above the national norm too, which fits a place that's doing modestly better than its surroundings without being an expensive outlier. On schooling, Springwood Primary — an academy special converter with 360 pupils — is the one named reference point in the data, and it's worth noting that broad school quality across the area sits a grade below the across-the-board strength seen elsewhere in the profile, the one soft patch in an otherwise consistent set of marks.