Worsley
Town · 11,817 residents
63Good
Good · better than 4 in 10 towns
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Road noise reaches 81% of the area
- Food & drink scores 38, below the typical 60
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Around Worsley
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Is Worsley a good place to live?
Worsley scores 63/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
No topic reaches "very good" (70+); its best is environment (69).
It scores lowest on food & drink (38).
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 Worsley in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Worsley
Worsley reads as brick-and-hedge suburbia doing very nicely for itself — detached houses on quiet cul-de-sacs, driveways with more than one car on them, and a demographic that skews solidly middle-aged rather than student or starter-flat. It's the kind of place where the streets are wide enough that you barely notice how dense the population actually is.
That comfort is backed by the numbers rather than just the look of the place. Worsley sits in the eighth decile for both income and deprivation nationally, meaning it's among the better-off corners of the country, and the median house price of £290,000 is close to the national median but sits 56% above the Wigan borough figure — this is the expensive end of its own metropolitan district. Semi-detached houses dominate the market, leasehold slightly outnumbers freehold in the sales mix, and detached homes here fetch a noticeable premium over the national detached average, which tells you a fair bit of the stock is the larger, family-sized kind rather than starter flats. Schools are the other pillar: an average Ofsted rating that's essentially "outstanding" across the sampled schools, with St Andrew's CofE Primary carrying that Outstanding badge itself, plus Bridgewater School offering an independent option — this is a place people move to for the schools as much as the houses.