Neighbourhoods in Kensington and Chelsea
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21 neighbourhoods · 100 sub-areas
Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.
| Golborne & Swinbrook | £2,587 | -1.1% | 24 | 15 |
| West Brompton | £2,801 | -1.1% | 53 | 60 |
| Earl's Court | £2,812 | -1.1% | 25 | 6 |
| Fulham Road | £2,955 | -1.1% | 34 | 35 |
| North Kensington | £3,010 | -1.1% | 22 | 29 |
| Kensington Gardens | £3,022 | -1.1% | 47 | 54 |
| Portobello | £3,098 | -1.1% | 17 | 15 |
| Notting Dale | £3,274 | -1.1% | 73 | 23 |
| Chelsea Riverside West | £3,320 | -1.1% | 13 | 10 |
| Ladbroke Grove | £3,410 | -1.1% | 46 | 35 |
| Notting Hill Gate | £3,551 | -1.1% | 26 | 30 |
| Holland Park | £3,590 | -1.1% | 59 | 70 |
| Notting Hill South | £3,633 | -1.1% | 19 | 23 |
| South Kensington | £3,741 | -1.1% | 42 | 45 |
| Notting Hill West | £3,855 | -1.1% | 20 | 20 |
| Chelsea Manor & Royal Hospital | £3,953 | -1.1% | 31 | 53 |
| Chelsea Riverside East | £4,092 | -1.1% | 31 | 40 |
| Queen's Gate | £4,407 | -1.1% | 33 | 42 |
| Kensington Abingdon | £4,408 | -1.1% | 41 | 56 |
| Brompton | £4,493 | -1.1% | 34 | 28 |
| Hans Town | £4,728 | -1.1% | 23 | 16 |
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 Kensington and Chelsea
Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in Kensington and Chelsea. 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 Kensington and Chelsea median.
Cost of living
Median rent and council tax across Kensington and Chelsea.
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.
Safety in Kensington and Chelsea
Crime in Kensington and Chelsea runs at 1.4× the national average. Bottom 10% (#315 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 145.5, 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 Kensington and Chelsea
33% of schools serving Kensington and Chelsea are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. Bottom 10% (#296 of 296 cities)
School breakdownOfsted distribution · best neighbourhoods for schools
Ofsted school inspection ratings, latest inspection per school.
Transport in Kensington and Chelsea
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 Kensington and Chelsea
Kensington and Chelsea has 0.88 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 Kensington and Chelsea
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 is the average rent in Kensington and Chelsea?
- The median monthly rent across Kensington and Chelsea is £3,599, based on ONS Private Rental Prices data. Individual neighbourhoods vary — see the shortlist above for the cheapest and most desirable areas.
- Where is the cheapest place to rent in Kensington and Chelsea?
- The cheapest neighbourhood in Kensington and Chelsea by estimated median rent is Golborne & Swinbrook at approximately £2,587/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
- What's the best neighbourhood to live in Kensington and Chelsea?
- By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in Kensington and Chelsea is Notting Dale at 73/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
- Is Kensington and Chelsea a safe area?
- Kensington and Chelsea has an average safety score of 36/100 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 Kensington and Chelsea?
- The most common council tax band in Kensington and Chelsea is not yet published, with the Band D annual charge currently around £1,156. Council tax is set at the local authority level so the same banding applies to every postcode within Kensington and Chelsea.
- What is the average salary in Kensington and Chelsea?
- The median annual resident salary in Kensington and Chelsea is £46,690, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in Kensington and Chelsea, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
- What is the average house price in Kensington and Chelsea?
- The average property price in Kensington and Chelsea is approximately £1,225,499 according to HM Land Registry's House Price Index. Individual neighbourhoods vary — typically ±20% around this council area median.
- What's the rental yield in Kensington and Chelsea?
- Gross rental yield in Kensington and Chelsea is approximately 3.8% — the council-area level median rent annualised over the council-area level median sale price. Net yield (after agency, void, maintenance and tax) typically runs 30–40% lower.
- How long does it take to save a deposit in Kensington and Chelsea?
- Saving a 10% deposit at the council area median sale price on the council area median salary, while putting away 10% of takehome pay each month, takes approximately 11.4 years in Kensington and Chelsea. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
- Is gigabit broadband available in Kensington and Chelsea?
- 100% of premises in Kensington and Chelsea 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 Kensington and Chelsea?
- 3.5% of 16-64 residents in Kensington and Chelsea 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 Kensington and Chelsea?
- Kensington and Chelsea contains 21 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 100 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.
What you need on day one
All sub-areas in Kensington and Chelsea
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.
- Kensington and Chelsea 017E
- Kensington and Chelsea 008D
- Kensington and Chelsea 020F
- Kensington and Chelsea 008B
- Kensington and Chelsea 013E
- Kensington and Chelsea 009E
- Kensington and Chelsea 016F
- Kensington and Chelsea 015A
- Kensington and Chelsea 020C
- Kensington and Chelsea 018B
- Kensington and Chelsea 017B
- Kensington and Chelsea 016C
- Kensington and Chelsea 021E
- Kensington and Chelsea 017C
- Kensington and Chelsea 009B
- Kensington and Chelsea 020D
- Kensington and Chelsea 018A
- Kensington and Chelsea 013A
- Kensington and Chelsea 006C
- Kensington and Chelsea 010B
- Kensington and Chelsea 011B
- Kensington and Chelsea 014C
- Kensington and Chelsea 014D
- Kensington and Chelsea 017D
- Kensington and Chelsea 013D
- Kensington and Chelsea 013C
- Kensington and Chelsea 012D
- Kensington and Chelsea 021B
- Kensington and Chelsea 016E
- Kensington and Chelsea 011E
- Kensington and Chelsea 012C
- Kensington and Chelsea 012A
- Kensington and Chelsea 015D
- Kensington and Chelsea 015B
- Kensington and Chelsea 004D
- Kensington and Chelsea 018D
- Kensington and Chelsea 011D
- Kensington and Chelsea 009C
- Kensington and Chelsea 011A
- Kensington and Chelsea 016D
- Kensington and Chelsea 010E
- Kensington and Chelsea 014B
- Kensington and Chelsea 003C
- Kensington and Chelsea 020E
- Kensington and Chelsea 007D
- Kensington and Chelsea 004B
- Kensington and Chelsea 003A
- Kensington and Chelsea 004C
- Kensington and Chelsea 008A
- Kensington and Chelsea 005C
- Kensington and Chelsea 001D
- Kensington and Chelsea 015C
- Kensington and Chelsea 011C
- Kensington and Chelsea 006B
- Kensington and Chelsea 008C
- Kensington and Chelsea 003E
- Kensington and Chelsea 013B
- Kensington and Chelsea 006D
- Kensington and Chelsea 010A
- Kensington and Chelsea 019B
- Kensington and Chelsea 019C
- Kensington and Chelsea 014E
- Kensington and Chelsea 010D
- Kensington and Chelsea 006E
- Kensington and Chelsea 006A
- Kensington and Chelsea 018E
- Kensington and Chelsea 004E
- Kensington and Chelsea 019D
- Kensington and Chelsea 007B
- Kensington and Chelsea 002B
- Kensington and Chelsea 012E
- Kensington and Chelsea 003B
- Kensington and Chelsea 017A
- Kensington and Chelsea 010C
- Kensington and Chelsea 004A
- Kensington and Chelsea 007E
- Kensington and Chelsea 018C
- Kensington and Chelsea 002C
- Kensington and Chelsea 019E
- Kensington and Chelsea 007A
Showing 80 of 100 sub-areas. Drill into any neighbourhood above for the full sub-area list.