Lower Edmonton
Neighbourhood · 16,799 residents
40Fair
Fair · among the lowest-scoring suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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- Flood risk: 11% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Prices are high for local incomes: affordability scores 34, where 60 is typical
- Transport scores 39, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Lower Edmonton
Map outline: Approximate — electoral ward boundary, used as the nearest surveyed shape
Is Lower Edmonton a good place to live?
Lower Edmonton scores 40/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
No topic reaches "very good" (70+); its best is environment (59).
It scores lowest on affordability (34) and transport (39).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Lower Edmonton in London, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Lower Edmonton
Terraced Victorian and Edwardian streets dominate here, packed tightly against each other, with the odd parade of shops selling phone cases, halal meat and fried chicken rather than flat whites — this is a working suburb, not a destination one, and it looks like it.
The numbers behind that feel are stark: Lower Edmonton sits in the bottom tenth nationally for both deprivation and income, yet median house prices of £382,250 are still above the national average, if 8% cheaper than the Enfield borough norm around it. That contradiction — modest incomes, prices pulled upward by London itself — shapes everything else. A terraced freehold is what a for-sale board here usually means; three-quarters of sales are freehold houses rather than leasehold flats, which gives the area more of a settled, family-house feel than the flat-heavy blocks you find closer to central London. Rail access runs through Edmonton Green and Silver Street stations, and Galliard Primary carries an Outstanding rating alongside a cluster of solidly Good academies — Houndsfield, Eldon, Churchfield — so a commuting parent has real options for both the school run and the platform. The one grade that jars against this otherwise unremarkable-suburb picture is safety: crime is trending upward, and the rate sits 142% above the Enfield average, with violence and anti-social behaviour making up half of all recorded incidents. That's the fact that deserves weight before anything else on this list.