Wesham
Village · 4,374 residents
74Very good
Very good · better than 9 in 10 villages
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: 60 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- 2 GP practices within a short walk
- Affordability scores 74, well above the typical 60
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- Road noise reaches 51% of the area
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Wesham a good place to live?
Wesham scores 74/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (78) and health (77).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Wesham in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Wesham
Wesham has the look of a place built for living rather than visiting: terraced rows and semis lining streets that lead nowhere dramatic, a station at the centre of it, and none of the retail clutter that signals a tourist stop. This is a working village, not a destination, and it reads that way the moment you arrive.
The practical picture here is decent rather than flashy. Kirkham & Wesham Rail Station puts you on the line without needing a car, which matters given the village sits among the more affordable corners of the North West — a median house price a little under £135,000, well below both the regional and national norms, and even a shade below neighbouring Fylde's figures. Schooling is more mixed: St Joseph's Catholic Primary and Singleton Church of England Primary both carry Good ratings, but the Church of England primary actually in Medlar-with-Wesham needs improvement, so the choice of school matters more than the choice of street. With a median age of around 39 and a fairly dense terraced layout, this leans towards settled households and long-term owners rather than a transient rental crowd — freehold ownership dominates, at roughly seven in ten sales, and terraced houses are what mostly changes hands.
Day-to-day life is unhurried. There isn't a large amount of green space by national standards, but what's there — around fourteen pockets of it — is enough for a dog walk or a kids' kickabout without needing to drive anywhere. The crime pattern is the one thing worth sitting with: violence and sexual offences account for close to four in ten recorded incidents, with anti-social behaviour close behind, though the overall safety trend is flat rather than worsening, and burglary and robbery are both rare. It's not an area with a crime problem so much as a village where the same categories that trouble most of Britain show up at a slightly higher share of a small total. Health provision and connectivity both sit around or just above the national average, and full-fibre broadband reaches the large majority of homes, so remote work is realistic here.