Walton on the Hill
Neighbourhood · 9,949 residents
45Fair
Fair · among the lowest-scoring 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
- Affordability scores 81, well above the typical 60
- Environment scores 74, well above the typical 60
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- Food & drink scores 29, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Walton on the Hill
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Walton on the Hill a good place to live?
Walton on the Hill scores 45/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (81) and environment (74).
It scores lowest on food & drink (29).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Walton on the Hill in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Walton on the Hill
Terraced brick streets run tight and dense here, packed in at a level well above the national norm, and it's a landscape of front doors opening straight onto pavement rather than gardens giving way to driveways. This is inner-Liverpool suburb living in its most concentrated form, and the streetscape tells you that before any figure does.
The housing market says the same thing plainly: this is Terraced-and-Freehold territory almost to the exclusion of everything else, with semis and flats making up a small minority of what sells. A median house price sitting well under half the national figure, and even below the wider Liverpool average, means a For Sale board here is advertising an entry point rather than a stretch purchase — the affordability grade tops out the scale, which is rare. Set against that, the area sits in the bottom income and deprivation decile nationally, so the low prices and the lower financial headroom of many residents are the same story told twice. Schooling is mixed rather than uniformly good: Gwladys Street Primary is rated Good and St Francis de Sales Catholic Junior School carries an Outstanding, but Alsop High School, the named secondary, is rated Requires Improvement with a markedly negative progress score — worth weighing if secondary schooling is a priority. Bus links look reasonable for a small area, though there's no rail station in the picture, so this reads as a bus-and-car suburb rather than a commuter-rail one.