Ness
Suburb · 22 residents
70Very good
Very good · better than 8 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 79, well above the typical 60
- Environment scores 79, well above the typical 60
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 45 per 1,000 people a year against 100
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 41% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Ness a good place to live?
Ness scores 70/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (79) and environment (79).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Ness in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Ness
Ness reads as farmhouses and paddocks rather than terraces — detached brick set well back from the road, hedges instead of front walls, the kind of place where you notice a car because there are so few of them. It sits out towards the Wirral edge of Cheshire West and Chester, and the whole feel is rural rather than suburban, whatever the official label says.
The numbers back up what you'd guess from looking at it. With barely over eighty people counted here, this is a hamlet more than a neighbourhood, and a median age in the late fifties tells you it's settled families and retirees rather than young professionals chasing a commute. There's a single bus stop and no rail station listed for the immediate area, so this only works if you drive — the trade-off for the quiet. Bishop Wilson Church of England Primary, a small voluntary-aided school with just over sixty pupils, is the one educational anchor named here, the sort of village school where your child is known by name rather than by class list.
Housing is almost entirely freehold, semi-detached and detached homes on a street where nothing has been newly built — the "For Sale" board here means an established family house, not a fresh development. The median sale price of £427,500 sits well above both the regional figure for the North West and the England-wide median, and it's over 60% higher than the typical price across Cheshire West and Chester as a whole — this is one of the borough's better-off pockets, not an average corner of it. Council tax bands and rents track a little higher than the national picture too, which fits a place that's short on volume but long on space.