Worsley Brow
Suburb · 587 residents
59Good
Good · better than 5 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
- 91% of residents live within five minutes of a park
- 3 GP practices within a short walk
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Food & drink scores 32, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Worsley Brow
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Is Worsley Brow a good place to live?
Worsley Brow scores 59/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (78) and health (70).
It scores lowest on food & drink (32).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Worsley Brow in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Worsley Brow
Terraced streets dominate Worsley Brow, tightly packed and mostly freehold, the kind of housing stock built for industrial-era St Helens rather than for anyone chasing a driveway or a garden extension. It's a small, dense pocket — under 800 people living at a density well above the national average — and the age profile skews younger than the country as a whole, suggesting a fair few first-time buyers and long-term locals rather than a retirement or commuter crowd passing through.
The numbers on housing tell their own story here: a median sale price around £128,500 puts this among the cheapest 5% of places nationally, and roughly a quarter of the country's price gap sits below it too. Semi-detached and terraced homes both sell for close to half the national median for their type, and prices sit a quarter lower even than the wider St Helens borough. That affordability is the headline, but it comes paired with a school picture worth sitting with: the one secondary sampled, St Cuthbert's Catholic High School, posts a Progress 8 score deep in negative territory, while the borough's Robins Lane Community Primary carries a Good rating. Schools overall are graded around the national average rather than above it, so this isn't an area you'd move into purely for the secondary offer. Three transport stops serve the area, without a rail station named in the local data, so a car or bus routine is the likely pattern rather than a rail commute.