Hyde Park
Neighbourhood · 10,368 residents
59Good
Good · better than 5 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
- 181 places to eat and drink
- 13 GP practices within a short walk
- 100% of schools are rated Good or better by Ofsted
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- Prices are high for local incomes: affordability scores 16, where 60 is typical
- Road noise reaches 56% of the area
- Safety scores 23, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Hyde Park
Map outline: Approximate — electoral ward boundary, used as the nearest surveyed shape
Is Hyde Park a good place to live?
Hyde Park scores 59/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for food & drink (99) and health (88).
It scores lowest on affordability (16) and safety (23).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Hyde Park in London, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Hyde Park
Hyde Park announces itself in stucco terraces and grand mansion blocks, the kind of streets where the parked cars are German and the front doors get repainted before they need it. You won't find a conventional high street here so much as the edges of Knightsbridge bleeding in — this is a place people pass through on their way to somewhere expensive, and increasingly a place they stay.
The practical picture is unusual. There's no dense local school run to speak of — the institutions that dominate the area are Imperial College, the Royal College of Music and the Royal College of Art, which tells you plenty about who's actually filling these streets: postgraduates, academics, and a resident population with a median age of 26, skewed heavily towards people passing through rather than settling for decades. Getting about means the Underground rather than a rail season ticket — Knightsbridge and Hyde Park Corner stations anchor the area — and with only one bus stop logged for the whole patch, this is a place you walk or take the Tube, not one you drive from easily. Housing is almost entirely flats held on leasehold tenure, with freeholds a minority; a For Sale board here is overwhelmingly likely to be a leasehold flat conversion in a period building, at a median price north of £2.9 million — a figure that puts Hyde Park well above even Westminster's borough-wide median, itself one of the priciest in the country.