Bedford Park
Neighbourhood · 12,842 residents
70Very good
Very good · better than 8 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- 18 GP practices within a short walk
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 62 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- 12 places to eat and drink
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 26% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Prices are high for local incomes: affordability scores 19, where 60 is typical
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Bedford Park
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Bedford Park a good place to live?
Bedford Park scores 70/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for health (78) and safety (76).
It scores lowest on affordability (19).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Bedford Park in London, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Bedford Park
The streets here are a giveaway before you read a single statistic — red-brick terraces and semis with stained glass and deep bay windows, the kind of Victorian and Edwardian housing that got this suburb listed as a conservation area long before that was fashionable. You won't find much in the way of nightlife or late-opening bars, but you will find the sort of quiet that comes from a place people settle into rather than pass through.
That settled feel shows up in who actually lives here: the median age sits at 40, roughly matching the national figure but well above the London-wide norm, and it reads as a suburb of established households rather than a young professional waystation. Southfield Primary, rated Outstanding, anchors the family case, and Chiswick Park Underground Station gives you a route into central London without needing a car — though with only one rail connection logged for the immediate area, this is a place that rewards people whose commute pattern is simple rather than multi-leg. Housing here is dominated by leasehold flats, with terraces a smaller but far pricier slice of the market — local terraced houses trade at close to five times the national terraced median, which tells you plainly that a "for sale" board on one of these streets is selling scarcity and period character, not square footage.
Green space is modest rather than generous — seven pockets adding up to under ten hectares, so it's not a place built around sprawling parkland, more one where a walk to a local green space is a regular small pleasure rather than an event. The crime pattern is worth sitting with for a moment: anti-social behaviour tops the local complaint list, yet the overall safety grade comes back as A, and the borough comparison backs this up — crime here runs notably lower than the Ealing average. That's the quiet spine of this place: a suburb that feels safe in practice even where the headline nuisance category might raise an eyebrow on paper. Health provision and connectivity both grade solidly good, and with over 70% full-fibre coverage, working from one of those period semis is a realistic proposition, not an aspiration.