Cricklewood
Neighbourhood · 24,552 residents
48Fair
Fair · better than 1 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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- Prices are high for local incomes: affordability scores 20, where 60 is typical
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The area
Around Cricklewood
Map outline: Approximate — electoral ward boundary, used as the nearest surveyed shape
Is Cricklewood a good place to live?
Cricklewood scores 48/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
No topic reaches "very good" (70+); its best is health (67).
It scores lowest on affordability (20).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Cricklewood in London, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Cricklewood
Cricklewood reads as dense, mixed, and unmistakably urban: terraces and low-rise flats packed tightly along the Broadway, with the kind of shopfronts and footfall you get where a lot of people are moving through rather than lingering. It's one of the more densely populated corners of London, and the mix of Victorian conversions and postwar blocks gives it a slightly unfinished, working feel rather than a polished one.
For commuters, Cricklewood station anchors the area, and with Brent Cross West also on the map, getting into central London isn't the hard part of living here — the harder question is what you're buying into once you arrive. Schools are the quiet strength: St Agnes' Catholic Primary School carries an Outstanding rating, and the area's overall school grade is the best of any category here, well above the national average. That combination — solid rail links, a genuinely good primary option — tends to draw thirty-somethings and young families who commute but want their children settled locally rather than shipped across the borough. Housing itself splits between flats and houses in fairly even measure, mostly freehold, and a semi-detached here runs well above the national semi-detached median — this is a place where a "For Sale" board usually means a period house being sold at a premium to the country as a whole, even though prices have actually eased slightly over the past year and sit close to what you'd pay elsewhere in Barnet.