Turpin Green
Suburb · 255 residents
54Fair
Fair · 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
- Property market scores 80, well above the typical 60
- Affordability scores 78, well above the typical 60
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 78 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Road noise reaches 97% of the area
- Health scores 12, below the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 35, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Turpin Green
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Is Turpin Green a good place to live?
Turpin Green scores 54/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for property market (80) and affordability (78).
It scores lowest on health (12) and food & drink (35).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Turpin Green in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Turpin Green
Detached houses on quiet closes, hedges trimmed, cars on the drive rather than the street — Turpin Green has the settled, low-key look of a suburb that isn't trying to sell you anything. It's small, it's residential, and it doesn't have a high street pulling in passing trade, which tells you most of what you need to know before you even get to the figures.
The housing picture matches the streetscape: detached homes dominate the recent sales, most of it freehold, and that combination usually means a For Sale board here is advertising a family home to be kept rather than a flat to be flipped. Prices sit above South Ribble as a whole — around nine per cent higher than the district median — but well below the national average, so you're paying a premium for this particular pocket without paying London-adjacent money. With a median age of 35 and only a couple of transport stops logged in the immediate area, this reads less like a commuter dormitory and more like a place people settle once they've stopped needing to be near a station every day. Schooling comes through as solidly good rather than exceptional — the kind of area where the local primary does its job without anyone needing to make a special journey across town for an Ofsted-rated alternative.
Green space is the quiet strength here: nearly 40 hectares of it against a population of just 255, a ratio that dwarfs both the regional and national averages, even though it's concentrated in a single site rather than spread across several parks. That shapes the weekend rhythm — this is a walk-the-dog-and-get-some-air suburb rather than a browse-the-shops one, and the nightlife grade reflects that plainly; if you want restaurants and bars with variety, you're driving out rather than stepping out. Safety sits a notch below the area's other strong grades, and it's worth being specific about why: anti-social behaviour accounts for four in ten recorded incidents, well ahead of anything else on the list, which is typical low-level suburban friction rather than a sign of serious crime, but it's the one grade that breaks an otherwise very consistent pattern of A's and B-pluses across affordability, environment, and housing.