Stanney, Little
Suburb · 54 residents
72Very good
Very good · better than 9 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
- Food & drink scores 94, well above the typical 60
- Environment scores 75, well above the typical 60
- Safety scores 70, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 27% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Road noise reaches 100% of the area
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Stanney, Little
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Stanney, Little a good place to live?
Stanney, Little scores 72/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for food & drink (94) and environment (75).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Stanney, Little in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Stanney, Little
Little Stanney doesn't really have a high street to speak of — this is scattered rural-edge housing on the fringe of Chester, the kind of place where a detached house sits behind its own hedge and the loudest thing on the road is a delivery van. With a population barely into double figures on the ground here, it reads less like a suburb and more like a hamlet that got swept into the statistics of one.
The property market tells you most of what you need to know before you've even parked the car. Sales here run freehold across the board, split fairly evenly between terraces, semis and detached houses, with a median price around £320,000 — comfortably above the regional norm and about a quarter higher than the typical price across Cheshire West and Chester. That's not cheap, but it's not London-adjacent either; it sits in the more comfortable-than-average band nationally, even though the wider deprivation picture (mid-table locally, income slightly better than that) suggests this is solid rather than wealthy ground. A median age pushing 49 fits the picture too — this isn't a first-time-buyer starter-home patch, it's somewhere people move to and then stay.
Safety is where the numbers get interesting, and worth being straight about. The overall grade sits well above the national average, and the area's own trend line is flat rather than worsening — nothing here is spiralling. But the crime rate compared with the wider unitary authority is startlingly higher, and violence and sexual offences top the local breakdown, followed by theft and public order incidents. With such a small resident population, a handful of incidents swings the rate hard, which is likely what's happening here rather than any sense of a genuinely troubled street. Still, it's the one grade that doesn't match the rest of the report card, and it's worth sitting with rather than skating past.