North Hillingdon
Neighbourhood · 14,163 residents
63Good
Good · better than 6 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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What’s good
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 64 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- 78% of residents live within five minutes of a park
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- Prices are high for local incomes: affordability scores 33, where 60 is typical
- Food & drink scores 31, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around North Hillingdon
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Is North Hillingdon a good place to live?
North Hillingdon scores 63/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (75) and environment (74).
It scores lowest on food & drink (31) and affordability (33).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for North Hillingdon in London, each measured against the national average.
Summary of North Hillingdon
Semi-detached houses dominate the streets here, three-bed family homes with front gardens and driveways, the kind of stock that suggests people move in and stay rather than pass through. It reads as a settled, mid-London suburb rather than a destination in itself — nothing flashy on the high street, nothing you'd detour for, just the steady rhythm of a place built around family life.
That settled feel holds up under the numbers. Hillingdon Underground Station anchors the area's transport, and with 29 local stops feeding into it, this works for a commuter who doesn't mind a change or two rather than someone who needs a direct mainline run into the centre — the transport grade here sits a notch below the area's other scores, and it's worth weighing if your work depends on speed. Schools are a stronger card: Swakeleys School for Girls posts a well-above-average Progress 8 score, and Glebe Primary and Charville Academy both carry Good ratings, giving a family with school-age children real options within the borough. Housing itself is overwhelmingly freehold semi-detached, and at a median of £522,500 it runs close to the wider borough figure — this is not a bargain corner of Hillingdon, but it's not a stretch either, and the five-year price direction has been improving even as the last year alone shows more modest movement.
Green space is generous for a place this dense — 16 pieces of it across 45 hectares gives you more breathing room per household than the London average, useful when the population density here is actually a touch above the national norm, packed in among fairly ordinary suburban streets. Restaurants and evening life are not where this area puts its energy; the nightlife grade is unremarkable, and this is not somewhere you'd move for a big Saturday night out. It's a place where the weekend is more likely to mean a walk in one of the local parks or a trip to Swakeleys or the shops than a night out on the town. Health provision reads well against the national picture, which matters if you're weighing long-term settling rather than a few years' stay.