Ealing
London Borough · 367,192 residents
59Good
Good · better than 2 in 10 towns
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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What’s good
- 97% of schools are rated Good or better by Ofsted
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- Prices are high for local incomes: affordability scores 25, where 60 is typical
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Ealing
Southall45Greenford60South Acton59North Acton57Horsenden Hill72The Steyne70Elthorne Heights74Acton Green56Bulls Bridge47Ealing Dean51Hanwell60Dormer's Wells58
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Is Ealing a good place to live?
Ealing scores 59/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for schools (76).
It scores lowest on affordability (25).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Ealing in London, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Ealing
Ealing Broadway's shopping centre and the wide Victorian terraces that fan out from it give the place a settled, slightly formal air — this is a town centre built for people who came to stay rather than pass through, with independent schools and red-brick primaries sitting comfortably alongside chain coffee shops and a steady flow of commuters. It doesn't feel like inner London and doesn't try to.
The transport offer is the reason many people first look here: Ealing Broadway Station and its Underground counterpart sit at the centre of a genuinely well-connected town, and with 26 rail links counted locally, getting into town or out to Heathrow is rarely the problem. Schools carry real weight too — an overall schools grade of A, backed by Vicar's Green Primary School and Ada Lovelace Church of England High School both rated Outstanding, explains why the median age here sits at 37, a touch younger than the national figure, and why you'll see as many parents with buggies outside Montpelier Primary as young professionals heading for the platform. The catch is affordability, graded D+ here: a median house price of £520,000 is close to the borough's own £499,950 benchmark but sits well above the regional median of £490,000 and nearly double the national figure, and rents around £2,067 a month track the same story. Housing itself is a leasehold flat market in character — of over a thousand recent sales, flats dominate and leasehold slightly edges out freehold, so a For Sale board here is more often than not advertising a share of a converted terrace or purpose-built block rather than a house with a garden.