Neighbourhoods in Westminster
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.
24 neighbourhoods · 123 sub-areas
Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.
| Westbourne | £2,455 | -4.7% | 29 | 20 |
| Maida Hill | £2,508 | -4.7% | 27 | 19 |
| St John's Wood North | £2,647 | -4.7% | 41 | 51 |
| Queen's Park Gardens | £2,690 | -4.7% | 38 | 50 |
| Pimlico South | £2,730 | -4.7% | 19 | 40 |
| Maida Vale | £2,739 | -4.7% | 45 | 56 |
| Pimlico North | £2,771 | -4.7% | 24 | 43 |
| Millbank | £2,820 | -4.7% | 16 | 39 |
| Bayswater East | £2,849 | -4.7% | 21 | 32 |
| St John's Wood South | £2,876 | -4.7% | 63 | 67 |
| Little Venice | £2,902 | -4.7% | 72 | 73 |
| Westbourne Grove | £2,984 | -4.7% | 27 | 29 |
| Paddington & St George's Fields | £2,988 | -4.7% | 29 | 15 |
| Central Westminster | £3,015 | -4.7% | 6 | 2 |
| Church Street | £3,132 | -4.7% | 46 | 13 |
| Fitzrovia West & Soho | £3,215 | -4.7% | 13 | 0 |
| Abbey Road | £3,260 | -4.7% | 66 | 69 |
| Regent's Park | £3,263 | -4.7% | 24 | 11 |
| Bryanston & Dorset Square | £3,284 | -4.7% | 21 | 2 |
| Strand, St James & Mayfair | £3,465 | -4.7% | 4 | 0 |
| Queensway | £3,611 | -4.7% | 25 | 11 |
| Victoria | £3,693 | -4.7% | 7 | 11 |
| Marylebone & Park Lane | £4,077 | -4.7% | 20 | 8 |
| Knightsbridge, Belgravia & Hyde Park | £4,393 | -4.7% | 16 | 9 |
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 Westminster
Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in Westminster. 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 Westminster median.
Cost of living
Median rent and council tax across Westminster.
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.
Safety in Westminster
Crime in Westminster runs at 1.8× the national average. Bottom 10% (#317 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 181.3, 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 Westminster
100% of schools serving Westminster 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 Westminster
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 Westminster
Westminster has 3.98 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 Westminster
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 Westminster?
- The median monthly rent across Westminster is £3,122, 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 Westminster?
- The cheapest neighbourhood in Westminster by estimated median rent is Westbourne at approximately £2,455/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
- What's the best neighbourhood to live in Westminster?
- By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in Westminster is Little Venice at 72/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
- Is Westminster a safe area?
- Westminster has an average safety score of 30/100 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 Westminster?
- The most common council tax band in Westminster is not yet published, with the Band D annual charge currently around £539. Council tax is set at the local authority level so the same banding applies to every postcode within Westminster.
- What is the average salary in Westminster?
- The median annual resident salary in Westminster is £45,172, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in Westminster, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
- What is the average house price in Westminster?
- The average property price in Westminster is approximately £872,135 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 Westminster?
- Gross rental yield in Westminster is approximately 4.7% — 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 Westminster?
- 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 9.0 years in Westminster. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
- Is gigabit broadband available in Westminster?
- 100% of premises in Westminster 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 Westminster?
- 4.1% of 16-64 residents in Westminster 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 Westminster?
- Westminster contains 24 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 123 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 Westminster
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.
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Showing 80 of 123 sub-areas. Drill into any neighbourhood above for the full sub-area list.