Nine Elms
Suburb · 182 residents
61Good
Good · better than 6 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
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 16 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Affordability scores 72, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Food & drink scores 16, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Nine Elms a good place to live?
Nine Elms scores 61/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (82) and affordability (72).
It scores lowest on food & drink (16).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Nine Elms in South West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Nine Elms
Nine Elms doesn't look like a suburb so much as a scattering of large detached houses on quiet plots, the kind of place where you notice hedges more than shopfronts because there isn't much in the way of a high street to speak of. The population here is small, and it shows in the pace: no crowds, no queues, just driveways and gates.
The numbers back up that first impression. This is among the least deprived pockets of the country on both income and general deprivation measures, and the housing stock leans heavily towards detached freehold homes — of the sales sampled, most were detached and every single one was freehold, which tells you a for-sale board here usually means a whole house on its own land rather than a flat or a share of one. Prices sit comfortably above the regional and national medians, and noticeably above the Wiltshire figure that anchors this part of the South West, so a move here costs more than the county average, not less. Schooling data is thin — only two primaries appear in the sample, both academy converters, without Ofsted ratings attached — so families weighing up school quality will want to do their own digging rather than rely on a headline grade.
Safety is where Nine Elms quietly stands out: the area is graded well above the national average for safety, and against Wiltshire's own crime rate this comes out markedly lower, even though violence and sexual offences make up the largest single share of the (very low) crime count. That's the one figure worth sitting with — not because it's alarming, but because it's the only category with any real weight in an otherwise short list dominated by anti-social behaviour and criminal damage in single figures. With a median age well above the national figure, this reads as a settled, older population rather than a young or transient one — the sort of place where neighbours have been neighbours for years, not a turnover-heavy commuter belt. Green space per head runs ahead of both regional and national averages, so there's room to walk without leaving the area, even without a single named park standing out in the data.