East Ham
Neighbourhood · 33,568 residents
42Fair
Fair · among the lowest-scoring 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
- 100% of schools are rated Good or better by Ofsted
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- Flood risk: 43% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Prices are high for local incomes: affordability scores 31, where 60 is typical
- Transport scores 37, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around East Ham
Map outline: Approximate — electoral ward boundary, used as the nearest surveyed shape
Is East Ham a good place to live?
East Ham scores 42/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for schools (75).
It scores lowest on affordability (31) and transport (37).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for East Ham in London, each measured against the national average.
Summary of East Ham
East Ham's high street runs thick with market stalls, grocers with crates spilling onto the pavement, and the kind of density that tells you this is a place people pass through as much as settle into. Terraced rows fan out from the main road in tight grids, and at 13,253 people per square kilometre, you're living at roughly five times the density of London as a whole — a place built for foot traffic and front doors close to the street rather than gardens and driveways.
For commuting, East Ham Underground Station anchors the area, and with 49 transport stops scattered through it, getting around without a car is straightforward. Schools are the quiet strength here: an average Ofsted rating that lands among the better performers nationally, and Vicarage Primary School rated Outstanding — a genuine draw if you've got young children, alongside Hartley Primary School rated Good. The median age of 33 fits this picture, skewing younger than London's typical 35.9, which suggests a mix of first-time buyers and young families rather than a settled, older population. On the housing side, a terraced Freehold sale is the story on most streets — 74 of the last 100 sales were terraced houses, and 82% of them freehold, which means a For Sale board here usually means a whole house, not a share of one. At £425,000 median, prices sit exactly level with the wider Newham borough, and comfortably below the London average of £630,766, though still well above the national median — this is affordable-for-London territory, not cheap-in-absolute-terms.