Cannon Hill Common looks like what it is: rows of Edwardian and inter-war terraces and semis, hedges trimmed, cars parked nose to tail, the kind of street where a For Sale board stays up for a photo before it comes down. It sits in the Merton suburbs at a density well above the national average, but nothing about the pace feels urban — this is a place people move to, not through. The numbers back up that first impression. On income and deprivation measures this is one of the better-off corners of the country, comfortably above the national picture on both counts, and house prices reflect it — a median around £680,000 against a national figure well under half that, though prices here have actually eased slightly over the past year rather than pushed on. Against Merton itself, that median still runs over a quarter higher than the borough figure, so you're paying a premium even within a well-off part of London. The property mix tells you who's buying: terraces dominate the sales, freehold is the norm rather than the exception, and semis here fetch triple the national semi-detached price — this is family-house territory, not a flat-hunting ground. Schooling data is thin on the ground, but Hillcross Primary and St John Fisher RC Primary both feature as the local options, and the area's schools grade sits comfortably above the national Ofsted average even without every rating to hand. Transport is the honest weak point — stops are modest in number and the connectivity and transport grades sit mid-table rather than top-tier, so this suits someone who has already made peace with a longer or less frequent commute, not someone chasing a station on the doorstep. Green space is generous for London — ten separate spaces adding up to nearly 45 hectares, several times the density-adjusted regional norm — which explains why weekends here tend to happen outdoors rather than in. With one school serving the immediate area and a population that skews a little older than the London median, at 41, this reads as a settled rather than transient community. Health provision is the one grade that jars against an otherwise strong set — a D against A-grade environment and A+ safety is the area's quiet asterisk, worth checking against your own GP access before committing. Crime is where the picture is genuinely reassuring: the safety grade sits at the top of the scale, the trend is marked as improving, and the overall crime rate runs only fractionally above the Merton average despite this being a denser patch than most of the borough. Anti-social behaviour and violent crime top the local breakdown, as they do almost everywhere, but the volumes are modest for a population this size. Put together, this suits people who've already decided they want space, quiet, and a garden over transport links and nightlife — the trade-off here is time on a train or bus in exchange for a street that feels lived-in rather than passed-through.