Edmonton

Terraced Victorian and Edwardian streets dominate Edmonton, packed tightly enough that the density figure (over double the London average) barely needs stating — you feel it in the parking, the corner shops, the sheer number of front doors per block. This is a suburb that attracts people priced out of Enfield's leafier pockets but unwilling to leave the borough altogether, alongside longer-settled families who've been here long enough to remember when the high street looked different.

Housing here means terraces above all else — 42 of the last 77 sales were terraced houses, mostly freehold, with semis and a modest run of flats filling the gaps. A "For Sale" board on one of these streets is selling a solid, unglamorous family house rather than a flat share, and it comes at a price: £523,750 sits well above the national median, though it's still noticeably cheaper than Enfield overall. Schools are the quiet strength of the picture — the borough's average Ofsted rating is comfortably above the national norm, and The Latymer School, rated Good with a strong Progress 8 score, gives secondary-age children a genuinely well-regarded option. Transport is more middling: fifteen stops serve the area but this isn't a place defined by rail commuting, so anyone tied to a fast central London commute should look at journey times carefully rather than assume proximity.

The green space is real if modest — nearly 54 hectares spread across 18 sites gives you somewhere to walk the dog or let kids run, even if Edmonton isn't going to be mistaken for a rural retreat. What stands out more sharply is the safety picture, which runs against the area's other numbers: this is graded well above the national average on safety, with the trend actively improving, and the crime rate sits roughly half that of Enfield as a whole — a genuinely encouraging signal in an area where the health grade and income decile suggest a harder-pressed population than the safety figures alone would imply. Violence and anti-social behaviour still account for half of recorded crime between them, so it's not risk-free, but the direction of travel is the right one.