Broad Street
Neighbourhood · 98 residents
59Good
Good · better than 5 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
- 28 places to eat and drink
- 1 GP practice within a short walk
- Schools scores 92, well above the typical 60
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- Prices are high for local incomes: affordability scores 31, where 60 is typical
- Safety scores 8, below the typical 60
- Environment scores 27, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Broad Street
Map outline: Approximate — electoral ward boundary, used as the nearest surveyed shape
Is Broad Street a good place to live?
Broad Street scores 59/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for food & drink (99) and health (98).
It scores lowest on safety (8) and environment (27).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Broad Street in London, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Broad Street
Broad Street doesn't give up much if you go looking for it, which is itself a kind of clue: this is a corner of the City of London footprint too small and too quiet to have generated its own body of statistics, the sort of address that sits in the shadow of somewhere bigger and better documented.
What can be said with any confidence comes from the surrounding borough, and the borough alone tells a striking story. The City of London carries a median house price of £650,000, roughly double the national median of £281,000 and comfortably above the London regional median of £490,000 too. That's a market operating on its own terms, shaped far more by proximity to the Square Mile's offices, institutions and history than by anything resembling an ordinary suburban high street. If Broad Street sits within that pull, it sits within a property market pitched at professionals with serious buying power, not first-time buyers stretching for a foothold.
Beyond that, honesty is the better service: without local crime figures, school records, transport counts or green space data specific to Broad Street itself, filling in the picture would mean guessing, and guessing about somewhere you might actually move to is worse than saying nothing. What's known points to an expensive, City-adjacent pocket of London; what's unknown is everything that would tell you whether it feels like home.