Clissold
Neighbourhood · 12,921 residents
55Good
Good · better than 3 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
- 38 places to eat and drink
Check before you view
- Prices are high for local incomes: affordability scores 17, where 60 is typical
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Clissold
Map outline: Approximate — electoral ward boundary, used as the nearest surveyed shape
Is Clissold a good place to live?
Clissold scores 55/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for food & drink (75).
It scores lowest on affordability (17).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Clissold in London, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Clissold
Clissold's streets are a mix of terraced Victorian houses carved into flats and a high street trade that leans towards flat whites and independent kitchens rather than chain retail — the kind of place where the pushchairs and the bike couriers use the same pavement. It's dense, properly dense: population density here runs several times the London average, and you feel it in how tightly packed the housing stock is and how full the cafés get.
The practical picture is a story of trade-offs. Schools are a genuine strength — the area-wide Ofsted grade is the standout at A, and Grazebrook Primary School carries an Outstanding rating that anchors the family case for living here. Getting around is a weaker link: with seventeen transport stops but a transport grade of C, this isn't a place with an obvious tube line on the doorstep, and you'd want to check your specific commute before assuming an easy ride into the centre. That combination — strong schools, so-so transport — tends to suit people who work from home some of the week or who don't mind a longer bus leg to a rail connection. Housing itself is overwhelmingly flats bought leasehold — sixty-four of the seventy-four recent sales were flats, only ten of the whole sample were freehold — so a board on this street almost always means a shared building and a service charge, not a house with a garden of your own. Terraced houses do trade, and trade high: where they appear, they've fetched over three times the flat price locally.