Lostock Hall
Suburb · 172 residents
59Good
Good · better than 5 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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- Flood risk: 11% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Road noise reaches 65% of the area
- Food & drink scores 36, below the typical 60
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Is Lostock Hall a good place to live?
Lostock Hall scores 59/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
No topic reaches "very good" (70+); its best is safety (69).
It scores lowest on food & drink (36).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Lostock Hall in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Lostock Hall
Terraced and semi-detached streets dominate here, red-brick and unassuming, the kind of place where the For Sale boards don't stay up long but nobody's renovating them into anything flashy. It reads as a working suburb rather than a commuter dormitory — solidly residential, unpretentious, built for living rather than showing off.
The housing picture tells you most of what you need to know before you even ask about schools. Nine in ten sales here are freehold, and semis and terraces between them account for the bulk of the market — this is a place where you buy the whole house and the ground it sits on, not a share of a block. Prices sit meaningfully below both the national and regional pictures, and below South Ribble itself by close to a fifth, which puts Lostock Hall among the more affordable corners of an already affordable district. That affordability lines up with an income decile of 2 — this is one of the less prosperous parts of the country by that measure, and it's worth sitting with that fact rather than skating past it, because it shapes everything from the rental market to the shops on the high street. Full fibre reaches most homes, which softens the blow for anyone working from a back bedroom rather than commuting.
The overall grade profile is solidly respectable — a run of B and B+ marks across affordability, connectivity, environment, housing and transport — and that consistency is the real story, more than any single figure. Safety carries a B+ too, though the underlying breakdown is worth a look rather than a glance: violence and sexual offences and anti-social behaviour together make up roughly two-thirds of recorded crime, which is a pattern seen in plenty of similar-sized suburbs but still worth knowing before you sign anything. Nightlife sits lower, at C+, which tracks with a place that empties out in the evenings rather than fills up. Green space per head runs a little below the regional average, so it's not a suburb built around big parks, but the housing stock, the connectivity, and the transport grade together suggest a place designed for getting on with ordinary life rather than entertaining visitors.