Queenstown
Suburb · 11,090 residents
39Modest
Modest · among the lowest-scoring 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 85, well above the typical 60
- 90 places to eat and drink
- 6 GP practices within a short walk
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- Safety scores 21, below the typical 60
- Schools scores 34, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Queenstown
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Queenstown a good place to live?
Queenstown scores 39/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as modest — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (85) and food & drink (81).
It scores lowest on safety (21) and schools (34).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Queenstown in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Queenstown
Terraced streets dominate here, tightly packed and mostly Victorian in feel, with a density that's nearly three times the national average — this is a place built for people, not gardens, and it shows in the rows of brick two-ups that line every road off the main stretches. It attracts a younger mix than most of England, a population with a median age under 38, and a transience you can feel: this isn't a place people tend to retire into quietly.
The practical picture is where Queenstown makes its case and then complicates it. Affordability is as good as it gets nationally — a median house price under £100,000 sits worlds below the national figure, and the terraced freehold stock that makes up the bulk of sales here (three-quarters of recent transactions) keeps prices low even against Blackpool itself, nearly a fifth cheaper than the surrounding authority. Connectivity is a genuine strength too: Blackpool North Rail Station anchors the area alongside tram stops at Talbot Road and Pleasant Street, and with 90 transport stops packed into the suburb, getting around without a car is realistic. Schools are the quieter concern — Devonshire Primary Academy and Layton Primary School serve good pupil numbers, but the area's overall schools grade lags well behind its other scores, and that's worth sitting with if you're planning around a family.
Green space is modest rather than generous — ten plots totalling under 13 hectares, which works out below both the regional and national rate per head — but it's there, woven between the terraces rather than in one big park you'd plan a day around. The bigger question mark is safety: the grade sits noticeably below everything else on the scorecard, and the area's crime rate runs more than double Blackpool's own borough-wide figure, driven heavily by violent and anti-social behaviour incidents rather than burglary or car crime, which stay low by comparison. The encouraging note is direction, not scale — the safety trend here is recorded as improving, which matters more than any single year's count.