North Holme
Suburb · 90 residents
55Good
Good · better than 3 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 80, 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 North Holme
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is North Holme a good place to live?
North Holme scores 55/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (80).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for North Holme in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of North Holme
Terraced streets dominate North Holme, rows of Victorian brick with the odd semi breaking the pattern, and a For Sale board here almost always says "freehold, three-bed terrace, under £170k" — a sentence that reads very differently here than it would twenty miles south. This is a settled, older-skewing place, median age into the mid-forties, low-rise and quiet in the way small ex-industrial villages around Pendle tend to be.
The affordability is the headline, and it's worth sitting with rather than rushing past: a median house price around £167,000 against a national figure over twice that, though it does run close to a fifth above the wider Pendle borough typical price, so within its own patch it isn't the cheapest corner going. Schools are a mixed picture rather than a settled one — Salterforth Primary carries a Good rating, Earby Springfield is marked as requiring improvement, and one local primary has no current rating at all, which is the kind of thing worth checking street by street rather than assuming from the area's overall B+ grade. There's no rail station or Outstanding school in the picture here, so this reads as a driving village more than a commuter one, and any school choice needs its own homework.
Green space and day-to-day amenity aren't detailed in what's here, but the shape of the place — 610 people, low density for the region, a scattering of community schools rather than a retail strip — suggests life is lived locally and quietly rather than out on a high street. What does stand out, and sits oddly against the generally respectable B-range grades for health, environment and transport, is safety: a C+ on nightlife aside, the crime figures show violence and sexual offences accounting for nearly half of the 41 incidents logged, with anti-social behaviour the next largest share. That's the one grade — B+ overall, but safety only matching that same B+ rather than exceeding it — worth reading properly rather than skimming, even if the raw numbers are small enough that a handful of incidents move the percentages a lot.