Quality of Life
North London is a renowned area with many well known neighbourhoods; the notorious Chingford of E17, the fashionable Muswell Hill of Haringey, the village feel of Chase Green in Enfield or the 'millionaires row' Bishops Avenue of Barnet.
The only quantitive way to measure the quality of life is with the index of deprivation. The latest statistics for all England's districts from 2004 rank Barnet as 193rd most deprived, Enfield is 99th, Haringey is 13th and Waltham Forest is 47th. Much of this deprivation is very focused within a borough down to a specific ward and even just to several streets.
For detailed neighbourhood level statistics we recommend using the National Statistics website.
Residential Housing Prices
From the Land Registry the average house prices for North London, for April - June 2006, are as follows:
|
|
Detached |
Semi-Detached |
Terraced |
Flat/Maisonette |
Overall |
|
Barnet |
826,412 |
404,436 |
298,028 |
215,015 |
341,280 |
|
Enfield |
655,972 |
325,161 |
234,002 |
170,843 |
247,698 |
|
Haringey |
973,461 |
503,762 |
347,587 |
214,486 |
299,691 |
|
Waltham Forest |
375,961 |
292,625 |
231,699 |
157,017 |
213,988 |
North London accounts for 14% of all Greater London house sales. Average housing prices show that entry level homes are cheaper in North London than Greater London as a whole making it an attractive proposition for new professionals, especially with chic developments under way across the region. Conversely, at the upper end of the housing market average prices exceed those of Greater London demonstrating what a cross section of properties North London has. A short trip across North London will turn up every kind of house from town house to country cottage.
