West Hampstead
Camden 010 · 5 sub-areas · 9,346 residents
Camden 010 sits in one of London's most employment-dense corners, home to around 9,300 people and with a median rent of about £2,650 a month. Rents here have actually fallen around 6.5% over the past year — a notable contrast to the wider Camden picture. With a rail station under 300 metres away and a staggering 63% of residents working from home, this is a neighbourhood built around proximity to central London.
West Hampstead is a workplace corner of Camden — daytime population swells with commuters, the streetscape leans busy and built-up rather than residential, and most residents who do live here rent rather than own. The population skews young, with a high concentration of 18- to 34-year-olds; the rental market is active and turnover is high — people move through rather than stay.
Overview
What's it like to live in West Hampstead?
The area is unusually green for its density — 5 parks and 4 playgrounds sit within five minutes' walk of the centroid; food and drink within walking distance is workable but not dense — around 33 restaurants and 3 pubs in five minutes; Recorded crime is higher than the national norm — common for built-up urban areas, but worth weighing if you're looking for a quieter base; Public transport is genuinely strong; most errands and a fair share of social life don't need a car; rents sit firmly in the upper bracket nationally, with a typical home letting at around £2,654 a month; gigabit broadband is effectively universal.
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Figures are aggregated across 5 sub-areas — population-weighted means for rates, sums for counts. Sources cited beneath each section.
West Hampstead in Camden
Living in West Hampstead
Camden 010 is a high-density, highly educated patch of inner London where the jobs outnumber the working-age residents by more than two to one. That figure — roughly 2.1 jobs per resident — signals something important: this isn't a quiet dormitory neighbourhood, it's a place where work and home blur together, and where 431,000 jobs are physically based within the area.
Rents have softened here. A typical month will cost you around £2,650, and that figure dropped roughly 6.5% over the past year — unusual in a London context. A one-bedroom flat runs about £1,930, a two-bedroom around £2,465, and a three-bedroom close to £2,875. That's still well above the UK median two-bedroom rent of around £1,200, but the downward trend gives renters slightly more negotiating room than they had 12 months ago.
About two in five households here are single-person — 39% — and nearly half of all residents rent privately. Owner-occupation is relatively low at just under 30%, with social housing making up around one in five homes. The neighbourhood skews young: more than a third of residents are aged 18 to 34, though the 35 to 49 cohort is also well-represented at nearly a quarter. Over two-thirds of residents hold a degree, which places Camden 010 well above typical London neighbourhoods on educational attainment.
The practical picture is straightforward. A mainline rail station is roughly 215 metres away — under a three-minute walk — and the nearest underground station is about 370 metres on. Public transport accounts for 21% of commuting, but the standout figure is the 63.5% working from home: this is one of the highest WFH rates in the country. Broadband is full gigabit across the board, with zero connections below the universal service obligation. If working from home is your baseline, the infrastructure here matches the expectation.
See the streets and sub-areas below for more detail on specific pockets within Camden 010.
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Frequently asked
- Is Camden 010 a nice place to live?
- It depends what you're optimising for. You get exceptional transport links, gigabit broadband, and a highly educated, professional community — and rents have actually fallen around 6.5% in the past year. The trade-off is a high crime rate and a rent-to-income ratio that makes it genuinely tough to afford on a single average salary.
- What is the rent in Camden 010?
- A typical two-bedroom flat runs around £2,465 a month. One-bedrooms are about £1,930, three-bedrooms around £2,875, and the overall median sits at roughly £2,650. Rents fell around 6.5% year-on-year, so there's more negotiating room than there was recently. These figures are estimates scaled from borough-level data using local sale prices.
- Is Camden 010 safe?
- The crime rate here is around 181 incidents per 1,000 residents annually — more than twice the UK national average. That's consistent with other high-footfall, employment-dense parts of inner London rather than a specific residential danger signal, but it's meaningfully elevated and worth weighing alongside everything else.
- What's the commute from Camden 010 to central London?
- Essentially nothing. The nearest mainline rail station is under 300 metres away — a two or three-minute walk — and the nearest underground station is around 370 metres. Public transport gets you to a major employment hub in under three minutes. It's one of the best-connected patches in the capital.
- Who lives in Camden 010?
- Mostly younger professionals and single-person households: nearly 40% of residents are aged 18 to 34, and 39% of households are single-occupancy. Two-thirds hold a degree. Around half rent privately, and the WFH rate of 63.5% means the neighbourhood has a very different daytime character to the office-dominated areas nearby.
- What schools are near Camden 010?
- There are 167 schools within two kilometres, so choice isn't an issue. Quality is more mixed — around 49% of nearby schools are rated Good or Outstanding, which is well below the national average of roughly 89%. The nearest Outstanding-rated school is about 800 metres away. Check individual catchments carefully before deciding.
- How affordable is Camden 010 compared to the rest of London?
- It's expensive — a two-bedroom at around £2,465 a month is well above the UK median but within the range you'd expect for inner London. The rent-to-take-home ratio here runs close to 96% on a typical local salary, which means most residents either earn well above average, share costs, or opt for a smaller flat.