Green Hill
Neighbourhood · 131 residents
63Good
Good · better than 6 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
- Environment scores 79, well above the typical 60
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- Prices are high for local incomes: affordability scores 38, where 60 is typical
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Health scores 31, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Green Hill
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Green Hill a good place to live?
Green Hill scores 63/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (79).
It scores lowest on health (31) and affordability (38).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Green Hill in London, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Green Hill
Green Hill sits at the edge of Bromley where the streetscape thins out into detached houses on generous plots, the sort of place where driveways matter more than doorsteps. With a population density well under a tenth of the London average, this reads less like inner-city suburb and more like a village that happens to sit inside the M25. The median age of 51 tells you plainly who you'll meet doing the school run or walking the dog — this is settled, established Green Hill, not a first-flat-in-London crowd.
The practical picture is mixed in an interesting way. There's no Tube presence to speak of and only a handful of bus stops serving the area, so this isn't a commuter's dream if you're chasing a fast run into central London — you'd be driving, or relying on a longer rail journey from elsewhere in the borough. Biggin Hill Primary, an academy converter with well over 400 pupils, is the visible school here, though its Ofsted rating isn't on record. Housing leans heavily towards detached freehold homes — nine of the eleven recent sales were freehold, and detached properties dominate the mix — which is the classic signature of a street where people buy once and stay. At a median price of £430,000, that's actually some 13% cheaper than the Bromley borough average, which is a notable trade-off: you're paying a discount for space and quiet relative to the wider borough, even though it still sits comfortably above the national median.