Mosley Common
Suburb · 74 residents
61Good
Good · better than 6 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
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Mosley Common
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Mosley Common a good place to live?
Mosley Common scores 61/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (77).
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 Mosley Common in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Mosley Common
Mosley Common doesn't really announce itself. There's no high street to speak of, no strip of restaurants to signal what kind of place this is — it's semi-detached houses, hedges, and quiet roads on the edge of Wigan borough, the kind of spot you pass through rather than arrive at with fanfare. That absence of bustle is more or less the point.
The housing picture tells you who buys here: mostly semi-detached homes held freehold, with a scattering of terraces and the odd detached house, and a fair slice built new — getting on for three in ten sales. A median price around £260,000 sits below the national figure but comfortably above what you'd pay elsewhere in Wigan, roughly 44% higher than the borough typical, which tells you this is one of the better-regarded pockets of the metropolitan district rather than a bargain corner of it. For schooling, St John's CofE Primary is the name on the ground, a voluntary aided school with just under 200 pupils — the kind of small, church-linked primary that anchors a place like this even without a published inspection grade to point to. Mosley Common doesn't have a rail station of its own in the picture, so this reads as a driving area more than a commuter-belt one, and the median age of 45 backs that up: this is settled, established households rather than twenty-somethings chasing a fast line into the city.