Clerkenwell
Neighbourhood · 10,937 residents
54Fair
Fair · better than 3 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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What’s good
- 139 places to eat and drink
- 14 GP practices within a short walk
- 100% of schools are rated Good or better by Ofsted
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- Prices are high for local incomes: affordability scores 13, where 60 is typical
- Safety scores 26, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Clerkenwell
Map outline: Approximate — electoral ward boundary, used as the nearest surveyed shape
Is Clerkenwell a good place to live?
Clerkenwell scores 54/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for food & drink (99) and health (87).
It scores lowest on affordability (13) and safety (26).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Clerkenwell in London, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Clerkenwell
Converted warehouses and glass-fronted offices sit shoulder to shoulder here, with the odd Georgian terrace wedged between a design studio and a coffee roaster. It's a place that attracts people who work in the buildings they live near — media, tech, architecture — rather than people who commute out to them. There's very little sense of a residential high street; this is a former industrial quarter that never quite stopped being one, just with better lighting.
The transport is about as good as London gets: Farringdon sits at the crossing point of several lines, which is part of why a flat here works for someone who wants a ten-minute journey to the City or the West End and doesn't mind paying for the privilege. Schools are a thinner story — there are only two in the immediate area, and while St Peter and St Paul Catholic Primary School holds a Good rating, this isn't a place with the density of Outstanding primaries you'd find a mile north in Islington proper. That fits the median age of 32: this reads as an area for people before children, or after they've left home, rather than mid-family life. Housing matches the pattern — flats dominate almost completely, leasehold is the norm, and freehold is rare enough that owning the ground beneath you is the exception, not the rule. A median price of £760,000 sits comfortably above the Islington borough figure and well above the London average, which tells you this pocket trades at a premium even within an expensive borough.