Havering-atte-Bower
Neighbourhood · 16,391 residents
64Good
Good · better than 7 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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What’s good
- 56% of residents live within five minutes of a park
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 64 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Prices are high for local incomes: affordability scores 38, where 60 is typical
- Food & drink scores 34, below the typical 60
- Health scores 36, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Havering-atte-Bower
Map outline: Approximate — electoral ward boundary, used as the nearest surveyed shape
Is Havering-atte-Bower a good place to live?
Havering-atte-Bower scores 64/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (88) and safety (77).
It scores lowest on food & drink (34) and health (36).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Havering-atte-Bower in London, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Havering-atte-Bower
Havering-atte-Bower sits at the edge of things — the kind of village-shaped pocket where a green, a church, and a scatter of detached and semi-detached houses do most of the talking, and the traffic noise of outer London feels a long way off. It attracts an older crowd than you'd expect this close to the city: the median age here is nearly 47, well above the London norm, and the streets have that settled, low-turnover feel of people who bought once and stayed.
There's no rail station in the village itself, so this isn't one for anyone tethered to a daily train commute — you're looking at a drive or a bus link to pick up trains elsewhere, and the eight local transport stops confirm this is a driving sort of place rather than a station-adjacent one. Schooling is a mixed picture: Dame Tipping Church of England Primary is rated Good, as is Bower Park Academy for secondary, but the academy's progress-8 score sits well below average, so families weighing secondary options will want to look at that closely rather than assume "Good" tells the whole story. On the housing side, freehold houses dominate almost entirely — this is overwhelmingly a place people own outright rather than rent or lease, with terraced and semi-detached homes trading in the high £300,000s to £500,000s, comfortably above the England-wide median but actually a touch cheaper than Havering borough as a whole.