Poll Hill
Suburb · 15 residents
70Very good
Very good · better than 8 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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What’s good
- Environment scores 73, well above the typical 60
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 0 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Food & drink scores 39, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
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Is Poll Hill a good place to live?
Poll Hill scores 70/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (73) and safety (70).
It scores lowest on food & drink (39).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Poll Hill in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Poll Hill
Poll Hill sits quietly on Wirral's edge, a small pocket of semi-detached houses and older residents rather than a bustling suburb with a high street identity of its own. The median age here is 57.5, well above the national figure of 40, and with a population in the teens by the count used here, this reads less like a neighbourhood and more like a single close-knit street or two — the kind of place where everyone recognises the postman.
On paper, the numbers around safety look startling: the crime rate sits vastly above Wirral's borough-wide average. But set against a population this small, even a modest handful of incidents — seventeen violent or sexual offence records over the year — will always produce an alarming percentage swing against the parent area. It's a case where the shape of the data matters more than the headline multiple, and violence and sexual offences make up half of everything logged, with public order and criminal damage trailing well behind. Worth registering as a caution rather than a verdict.
Housing here undersells itself against the national market: a median sale price of £170,000 is a fifth cheaper than the Wirral borough average and sits far below the national median, with semi-detached freeholds dominating what few sales go through — this is a place where a For Sale board means an ordinary family house changing hands quietly, not a bidding war. Full fibre reaches over 90% of homes, which is a genuinely strong connectivity figure for a suburb this size, and council tax bands sit close to the national D-band norm, so there's no nasty surprise waiting there. Green space provision, judged against regional and national hectare-per-head figures, holds up reasonably well, which fits with the overall grading — an environment score that comes out well above average, alongside solid marks for affordability and connectivity.