Waterloo
Suburb · 111 residents
60Good
Good · better than 5 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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What’s good
- Affordability scores 76, well above the typical 60
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 36 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Food & drink scores 8, below the typical 60
- Health scores 24, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
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Is Waterloo a good place to live?
Waterloo scores 60/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (76) and safety (75).
It scores lowest on food & drink (8) and health (24).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Waterloo in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Waterloo
Detached houses on generous plots, gravel drives, hedging kept neat rather than wild — this is the kind of Cheshire suburb where the cars on the street tell you more than the shopfronts do. Waterloo doesn't announce itself with a high street scene; it's residential, settled, and quietly comfortable in a way that doesn't need to perform for visitors.
The numbers behind that impression are about as good as this sort of analysis gets. Waterloo sits in the top decile nationally for both deprivation and income, and a median age in the low fifties confirms this isn't a starter-home suburb — it's where people land once they're established. Property here runs to detached and semi-detached stock, almost entirely freehold, with a median sale price north of half a million and detached homes alone averaging £630,000 against a national figure closer to £420,000. A for-sale board on this street is advertising equity, not opportunity. Schooling is a mixed picture rather than a uniform strength: Poynton High School posts a solid Progress 8 score, but Worth Primary carries an Ofsted rating of Requires Improvement, which is worth sitting with if you have young children, since it cuts against the area's otherwise comfortable profile.
Safety is where Waterloo's character sharpens into something worth naming plainly. The overall grade pattern is strong across the board — housing, affordability, connectivity, health all comfortable — except for a C on nightlife, which simply reflects that this isn't a place built around evening life, and a safety grade that reads as an A yet sits against a crime rate enormously higher than the Cheshire East average, driven almost entirely by violence and sexual offences making up half of all recorded incidents. With a population as small as this and total crime counts in double figures, a handful of incidents can swing the rate dramatically — so treat the percentage gap against the parent authority with some caution rather than reading it as a lived sense of danger; the trend itself is flat, not worsening. Green space and connectivity are solid, full-fibre coverage sits comfortably above three-quarters of premises, and the overall grade of B+ feels earned rather than inflated.