Lower Place in London has a Check Local Score of 44/100 (fair), drawn from official data on safety, schools, transport, housing, amenities and the local environment, each measured against the national average — a score of 60 is typical for the country.
Terraced Victorian streets dominate here, tightly packed and mostly freehold, with the odd flat conversion breaking up the rows — the kind of streetscape that says long-term owner-occupiers rather than a churn of renters, and the sales figures back that up: turnover sits well below the national rate.
The numbers around income and deprivation put Lower Place near the bottom nationally — income decile 1, IMD decile 2 — which sits oddly against a median house price of £477,500. That tension is the area's defining fact: this is a pocket of relatively modest household income sitting on property that would be unremarkable in much of London but is worth considerably more than the England-wide median. Terraced homes here sell for a median of £596,250, well above the national terraced figure, and the borough comparison shows Lower Place trading close to Ealing prices while sitting cheaper than the London region as a whole. A "For Sale" board on one of these streets is advertising a Victorian terrace to a buyer stretching for it, not a bargain.
Schools are the strongest card in the hand — the area grades A on schools, and John Perryn Primary School, rated Good, gives a concrete anchor for that. With eighteen transport stops serving a population of only around 1,500, and a connectivity grade of B, getting around locally is straightforward even without a rail station named in the picture. The median age of 35.6, younger than both the regional and national averages, points to a working-age, family-forming population rather than a retirement pocket.
Safety is where the picture turns. The area's overall crime rate runs dramatically above the Ealing borough average, and anti-social behaviour is the single most-reported issue, running neck and neck with violent and sexual offences for the top spot. That's the out-of-pattern grade against an otherwise solid constellation: A for schools, B or better for transport, connectivity and housing, yet only a C+ for safety and health. It doesn't mean the streets feel dangerous day to day, but it's the number a cautious buyer should sit with rather than skip past. Green space is thin too — three plots totalling under two hectares, modest even by London's own tight standards — so this isn't an area built around park life; it's a place where residents likely travel out for the bigger open spaces and come back to a quiet terrace at night.
Lower Place suits someone who wants a foothold in Ealing's borough at a shade under its typical price, values solid local schooling over green space or nightlife-free evenings, and is prepared to look past a crime rate that runs well above the surrounding borough in exchange for a settled, owner-occupied street where neighbours tend to stay put.
Data last updated: 15 August 2026
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