St. Luke's
Suburb · 63 residents
68Good
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 87, well above the typical 60
- Transport scores 75, well above the typical 60
- Environment scores 71, well above the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around St. Luke's
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is St. Luke's a good place to live?
St. Luke's scores 68/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (87) and transport (75).
Safety isn't scored here: street-level police data for the area is incomplete, so the overall score leaves it out.
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for St. Luke's in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of St. Luke's
St. Luke's is a pocket of detached houses on quiet roads, the kind of place where the driveways are as wide as the houses and nobody's in a hurry. It doesn't look or feel like the rest of Wigan borough, and the numbers back that instinct up: this is a suburb pulling in a different direction from its surroundings.
Start with money, because it explains everything else. St. Luke's sits in the top decile nationally for both deprivation and income — as affluent as England gets — and the median house price of £352,000 runs 95.6% ahead of the Wigan average. Detached homes dominate the sales here (eight of nine recent sales), though almost all of them sell leasehold rather than freehold, which is worth checking into before you fall for a For Sale board — it's not the classic outright-ownership picture the housing stock might suggest. Rent, at £744, is actually cheaper than both the regional and national medians, so this looks like a place people buy into rather than pass through.
The median age of 46.7 tells you who's on those driveways — well past the first-time-buyer stage, settled, in no rush to move on. It's a small population living at a surprisingly high density for a suburb of detached houses, which suggests a tightly drawn, compact patch rather than a sprawling estate. Connectivity and transport both grade comfortably above the national average, and full-fibre broadband reaches 85% of homes, so it's set up for people working from that home office rather than commuting daily. Schools grade solidly respectable rather than exceptional — a fair rather than outstanding mark, and the one grade in the set that doesn't match the affluence around it. Health provision follows the same pattern: good, not exceptional, in a place where you might expect top marks across the board given everything else.