Gunnersbury
Neighbourhood · 5 residents
56Good
Good · better than 3 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
- 8 GP practices within a short walk
- Food & drink scores 73, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 11% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Prices are high for local incomes: affordability scores 37, where 60 is typical
- Road noise reaches 73% of the area
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Gunnersbury
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Gunnersbury a good place to live?
Gunnersbury scores 56/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for health (85) and food & drink (73).
It scores lowest on affordability (37).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Gunnersbury in London, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Gunnersbury
Gunnersbury reads as a transport interchange with flats stacked around it — the kind of place where the streetscape is dominated by low-rise blocks and a steady flow of people heading somewhere else. It's dense, properly dense, more than double the average for London suburbs, and that density shows up in the mix of independent schools, small parades, and the constant churn of a place built around getting in and out rather than staying put.
That last point matters, because Gunnersbury's whole practical case rests on transport. Gunnersbury Station gives you rail and Underground from the same spot, backed up by Chiswick Park and South Acton close by, so this is a place aimed squarely at commuters rather than a destination in itself. Schooling locally leans independent — Heathfield House, the International School of London — with Belmont Primary School the named state option, rated Good. The housing stock matches the transport logic: flats dominate, leasehold is the norm rather than the exception, and only a small slice of sales are freehold houses. A For Sale board here is overwhelmingly likely to be advertising a leasehold flat, not a family house with a garden, and the median age of 36.5 fits a population of younger professionals and couples rather than settled families with school-age children.
Green space is the honest trade-off: there's very little of it, a fraction of a hectare against a population of three thousand-plus, so this isn't an area where a big local park anchors the week. What you get instead is convenience — density brings shops and transport links rather than open ground. On safety, the picture is more mixed than the area's other grades suggest: crime sits well above the borough average, driven by shoplifting and violent offences that cluster around a busy interchange area, and the trend has been moving in the wrong direction over the past year. That's the one grade that breaks the pattern in an otherwise solid B-rated area, and it's worth sitting with rather than skating past, especially set against Hounslow's own borough-wide numbers, against which Gunnersbury runs notably higher.