Sutton Leach
Suburb · 3,447 residents
66Good
Good · better than 7 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
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 59 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Affordability scores 73, well above the typical 60
- Environment scores 72, well above the typical 60
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Food & drink scores 15, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Sutton Leach
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Sutton Leach a good place to live?
Sutton Leach scores 66/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (74) and affordability (73).
It scores lowest on food & drink (15).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Sutton Leach in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Sutton Leach
Sutton Leach reads as terraces and semis, pebble-dashed and privet-hedged, the kind of streets where cars outnumber trees and everyone seems to know whose bin is whose. It's a working suburb rather than a destination — no high street to speak of, just the rhythm of a place people live in rather than visit.
The numbers back up that lived-in, settled feel: a median age approaching 45, well above both the regional and national averages, suggests a population that has largely stopped moving. Housing here is overwhelmingly semi-detached and freehold — a For Sale board on this street is telling you "family home, own it outright, nothing fancy" rather than anything aspirational. At a median of £185,000, prices sit meaningfully below the St Helens borough figure and well under the North West and national medians, which is either the area's biggest draw or its biggest ceiling, depending on what you're after. St Helens Junction Rail Station gives you a way out without a car, and with 17 local transport stops woven through the streets, getting around doesn't depend entirely on owning one.
Schools are the area's soft spot rather than its strength: there's only one school captured for the immediate area, and across the wider sample the picture is mixed — St Anne's Catholic Primary is rated Good, but Willow Tree Primary needs improvement, and a couple of others simply haven't been rated recently. That patchiness shows up in the overall schools grade too, which lags the area's otherwise strong showing on safety and affordability. Green space is thin on the ground — just a single recorded plot, and a small one — so this isn't an area built around parkland weekends; you're more likely to be driving out to it than walking to it.