Canning Town
Neighbourhood · 18,316 residents
42Fair
Fair · among the lowest-scoring suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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- Flood risk: 84% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Prices are high for local incomes: affordability scores 28, where 60 is typical
- Safety scores 36, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Canning Town
Map outline: Approximate — electoral ward boundary, used as the nearest surveyed shape
Is Canning Town a good place to live?
Canning Town scores 42/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
No topic reaches "very good" (70+); its best is schools (69).
It scores lowest on affordability (28) and safety (36).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Canning Town in London, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Canning Town
Canning Town's skyline tells you most of what you need to know before you've read a single figure: tower cranes and new-build glass blocks rising over a transport interchange, with the older terraced streets tucked in behind. It's a place built around movement — this is one of the densest pockets of London, and it looks it, with the flats, the footbridges and the constant churn of people heading somewhere else.
That interchange is the practical heart of the area. Canning Town DLR, the Underground station and the rail station all sit together, which means the commute into the City or Canary Wharf is short and largely painless — a genuine draw for the 30-somethings who make up much of the population here (the median age is a decade younger than the London average). Schools are a mixed picture worth knowing before you buy: Hallsville Primary and Keir Hardie Primary both carry Outstanding ratings, and Rokeby School serves the secondary-age intake, but the area's own single sampled school average sits only at "Good," so the strength is real but not uniform across every gate you'd walk your child through. Housing here is overwhelmingly flats on leasehold terms — full ownership (freehold) is the exception, at well under a fifth of sales — so what you're buying into is largely a leasehold flat market, not a house-with-a-garden one, and at a median price around £442,000 you're paying roughly 15% less than the Newham borough average, itself already one of the more affordable corners of London.