Kentish Town
Neighbourhood · 2,948 residents
49Fair
Fair · better than 1 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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What’s good
- 9 places to eat and drink
- 100% of schools are rated Good or better by Ofsted
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- Prices are high for local incomes: affordability scores 13, where 60 is typical
- Safety scores 33, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Kentish Town
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Is Kentish Town a good place to live?
Kentish Town scores 49/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for food & drink (84) and schools (70).
It scores lowest on affordability (13) and safety (33).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Kentish Town in London, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Kentish Town
Kentish Town's high street still runs on Victorian terraces converted into flats, with independent cafes and a steady flow of people who look like they're either heading to a rehearsal room or just off a night shift. It's dense in the way inner London gets dense — narrow pavements, buses queuing at the lights, a population squeezed in at roughly five times the national average for crowding. That density brings energy rather than anonymity: this is a place where people nod at the barista, not a dormitory suburb.
The transport picture explains a lot of who ends up here. Kentish Town's own station sits alongside an Underground stop and a West London Line platform, so you're rarely more than a few minutes from a train into central London — which suits the median resident, who at 34 is younger than both the London and national average and plausibly commuting rather than retired. Schools carry real weight in the decision too: Eleanor Palmer Primary holds an Outstanding rating, and The Camden School for Girls posts a strong positive Progress 8 score, though Acland Burghley's is negative, a reminder that "good schools" here means a genuine spread rather than a blanket guarantee. Housing matches the commuter-family profile only loosely — the market is dominated by leasehold flats, not houses, with freeholds making up a small minority of sales, so a "For Sale" board here nearly always means a flat in a converted terrace or purpose-built block, not a garden semi.