Nantwich
Town · 18,215 residents
68Good
Good · better than 6 in 10 towns
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- Property market scores 73, well above the typical 60
- 58% of residents live within five minutes of a park
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- Food & drink scores 33, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Nantwich
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Nantwich a good place to live?
Nantwich scores 68/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for property market (73) and environment (70).
It scores lowest on food & drink (33).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Nantwich in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Nantwich
Nantwich reads as black-and-white timbered buildings and independent shopfronts rather than chain-store frontage, the kind of town centre where the buildings themselves are the attraction and the shops have adapted around them. The age profile gives it away too — a median age of 47, a decade or so above the national figure, and the streets have that settled, unhurried quality that comes with it rather than the churn of a graduate town.
Getting around is straightforward without being flashy: there's a single station, Nantwich Rail Station, so this isn't a commuter-belt town built around fast trains to a big city, more somewhere people choose because they've already arranged their working life around it, or work locally. Schools are a mixed bag rather than a uniform selling point — Malbank School and Sixth Form College and St Anne's Catholic Primary School both carry Good ratings, but the secondary progress score sits slightly below the national average, and several of the primaries haven't been freshly inspected. Housing leans heavily toward detached family homes on freehold tenure — of the sales sampled, detached houses outnumber every other type, and freehold ownership dominates by roughly four to one over leasehold. A For Sale board here is more likely to be outside a three- or four-bed house with a driveway than a flat conversion, and the flats that do sell go for notably less than the national flat price, suggesting the flat market is thin and perhaps aimed at downsizers rather than young professionals.