The Cobbs
Suburb · 904 residents
78Very 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
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 49 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- 82% of residents live within five minutes of a park
- Affordability scores 71, well above the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around The Cobbs
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is The Cobbs a good place to live?
The Cobbs scores 78/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (77) and environment (72).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for The Cobbs in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of The Cobbs
The Cobbs is dense, terraced, and built for people rather than cars — narrow streets of semis and converted flats packed in tighter than almost anywhere else in the North West, with the kind of streetscape that says settled residential rather than passing-through. It doesn't try to be a destination; it's the sort of place you find because you already know it, not because you stumbled past it.
That density shows up everywhere once you look. At 46, the median age here skews older than both the regional and national norm, and the housing stock backs that up: semi-detached homes dominate, but leasehold tenure outnumbers freehold by a good margin, which usually means flats and older conversions rather than the classic freehold semi with a garden. A For Sale board on this street is as likely to be advertising a leasehold flat as anything else — worth checking the lease terms before you get attached to a place. Semi-detached homes here actually sell for more than the national semi-detached average, while flats go for notably less, so the property type you're chasing matters more than the area-wide median suggests.
On paper, The Cobbs sits comfortably: decile 8 for deprivation puts it among the less deprived places nationally, and the median house price runs about 14% above the parent authority of Warrington. Schools follow a similar pattern — Broomfields Junior School and Bridgewater High School both rated Good, giving families a solid state option through primary and secondary without needing to gamble on admissions elsewhere. Connectivity is strong too, with full fibre reaching the vast majority of homes, useful if you're working from one of those flats. But there's a discordant note running through all this comfort: crime sits at more than three times the rate of the surrounding authority, driven overwhelmingly by violence and sexual offences, which make up nearly half of all recorded incidents. It's the one grade that doesn't match the rest of the picture, and it's worth sitting with rather than skimming past.