Thorn Hill
Suburb · 669 residents
55Good
Good · better than 3 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
- Environment scores 88, well above the typical 60
- Affordability scores 87, well above the typical 60
- Transport scores 71, 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
- Health scores 16, below the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 37, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Thorn Hill
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Thorn Hill a good place to live?
Thorn Hill scores 55/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (88) and affordability (87).
It scores lowest on health (16) and food & drink (37).
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 Thorn Hill in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Thorn Hill
Thorn Hill reads as detached houses on quiet roads, the kind of place where driveways matter more than pavements and nobody's in a hurry. It sits in Wigan borough but feels a step removed from it: bigger plots, older residents, a settled rather than transitional air.
The numbers back up that impression of comfort. Thorn Hill sits in the top decile nationally for both income and deprivation, meaning this is about as well-off as areas get, and the median age of 51.5 — a decade above the national figure — tells you it's not a place people move through quickly, but one they settle into. House prices run well above the Wigan borough median, and detached homes dominate sales, though leasehold outnumbers freehold by a fair margin, which is worth checking carefully if you're used to the freehold-as-standard assumption of most detached-house areas. Schooling is thinner on the ground here than the housing stock might suggest — Woodfield Primary School is the named option, a community primary, without an Ofsted rating attached in this data, so you'd want to look into current inspection status yourself rather than assume.
Green space is modest rather than generous — one recorded plot at just under four and a half hectares, well below what you'd find regionally per head of population — so this isn't an area built around parkland rambles. What it does offer is a full-fibre broadband reach above 84%, handy if home working is part of the appeal, and a transport picture that's serviceable rather than a selling point in itself, with a handful of stops but no standout rail presence flagged. The overall grade pattern — strong on affordability and environment, solid on connectivity and transport, softer on nightlife — sketches a place that's quiet by design, not by accident. Crime is genuinely low, and even the two incidents recorded put Thorn Hill at a fraction of the borough's typical rate.