Neighbourhoods in City of London
Tap any row or map polygon to drill into that neighbourhood — hovering on desktop will preview the link before you click. Switch the tab strip above the table to focus on Affordability, Schools, Transport, Safety or Wealth — the columns swap and the default sort follows.
1 neighbourhood · 6 sub-areas
Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.
| City of London | — | — | 17 | 20 |
Sources: ONS, MHCLG, DfT, DESNZ, Defra, Police.uk, Ofsted, Ofcom, HM Land Registry. Some columns (salary, council tax, HPI) are published at council-area level.
Where to look in City of London
Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in City of London. Each list is filtered from the same neighbourhood data above — the basis of each shortlist is stated above the list so you know what's been weighted.
Lowest estimated monthly rent. Rent is the LAD-published ONS PIPR median, scaled per neighbourhood by local sale prices (Land Registry).
Highest composite liveability — combines safety, schools, transport access and rental affordability into one 0–100 score (higher = more liveable).
Highest liveability per pound of rent — desirable areas where rent stays close to or below the City of London median.
Cost of living
Median rent and council tax across City of London.
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.
Safety in City of London
Crime in City of London runs at 5.8× the national average. Bottom 10% (#318 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 582.0, averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods.
How crime is measured
What's counted. Incidents recorded by territorial police forces and published to data.police.uk each month. Rates use the latest 12 months of data divided by the area's mid-2024 ONS resident population — so the figure is reported incidents per 1,000 residents per year.
Anti-social behaviour is the largest category in most areas and is worth reading carefully — it's a community-reports bucket (noise, rowdiness, nuisance), not "crime" in the legal sense. ASB and shoplifting are weighted lower than violent offences in the safety score on each page.
Caveats. The denominator is residents, so workday and tourist destinations can look worse than they feel for someone living there. Greater Manchester forces stopped publishing to data.police.uk in 2020, so figures for those areas are intentionally blank rather than misleadingly low.
Crime detailTop crime types · safest neighbourhoods in this council area
Source: data.police.uk — incident counts adjusted for population, then averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods. National average = England + Wales population-weighted mean.
Schools in City of London
100% of schools serving City of London are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. Best 5% nationally (#1 of 296 cities)
School breakdownOfsted distribution · best neighbourhoods for schools
Ofsted school inspection ratings, latest inspection per school.
Transport in City of London
Modelled door-to-door commute from this council area to nearby employment hubs. Closest first.
Transport detailAll city commute times · mode share · best-connected neighbourhoods
DfT Journey Time Statistics + ONS Travel-to-Work.
Job access from City of London
City of London has 76.55 jobs per resident locally. Best 5% nationally
Job access detailReachability tiers · sector mix in this council area
ONS BRES (jobs density) + DfT job-accessibility minutes.
Frequently asked about City of London
Short answers to the questions we get most often. Each answer is anchored in the data above and links onward where you can dig deeper.
- What's the best neighbourhood to live in City of London?
- By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in City of London is City of London at 17/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
- Is City of London a safe area?
- City of London has an average safety score of 28/100 across its constituent neighbourhoods (higher is safer). The score is the national percentile rank of police-recorded crimes per 1,000 residents per year, inverted so 100 means the safest 1% of England + Wales.
- What is council tax in City of London?
- The most common council tax band in City of London is not yet published, with the Band D annual charge currently around £1,153. Council tax is set at the local authority level so the same banding applies to every postcode within City of London.
- What is the average house price in City of London?
- The average property price in City of London is approximately £697,697 according to HM Land Registry's House Price Index. Individual neighbourhoods vary — typically ±20% around this council area median.
- Is gigabit broadband available in City of London?
- 100% of premises in City of London are gigabit-capable per Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Coverage is patchier in older terraces and rural fringes — check your specific postcode for service availability.
- What's the unemployment rate in City of London?
- 1.3% of 16-64 residents in City of London are on the DWP Claimant Count — Universal Credit while seeking work, or Jobseeker's Allowance. That's the live monthly local indicator. It's narrower than the ONS Labour Force Survey "ILO unemployment rate" (which counts anyone actively job-seeking on a separate denominator) and narrower again than Census 2021's "% unemployed" (which is calculated against all 16+ residents and so isn't directly comparable).
- How many neighbourhoods are in City of London?
- City of London contains 1 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 6 sub-areas (local areas). Browse the full list at the bottom of this page or use the neighbourhood map above to drill into a specific area.
- How does City of London compare to other UK areas?
- City of London's average liveability score is 27/100. To compare it side-by-side with another local authority, use the comparison tool at /compare. To see how every council area in London ranks across rent, safety, schools and transport, see /gb/london.
What you need on day one
All sub-areas in City of London
Every local area, ordered by crawl priority. Most readers want the neighbourhood-level view — these are for deep-link cases or external search-engine arrivals.