Northwood Hills
Neighbourhood · 16,555 residents
64Good
Good · better than 7 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: 76 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Prices are high for local incomes: affordability scores 32, where 60 is typical
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Northwood Hills
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Northwood Hills a good place to live?
Northwood Hills scores 64/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (70).
It scores lowest on affordability (32).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Northwood Hills in London, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Northwood Hills
Northwood Hills reads as a suburb of semis and low-rise blocks, hedges trimmed, driveways with two cars rather than one — the kind of place where the housing stock does most of the talking before you've even clocked the shops. It sits at the quieter, more settled end of outer London, and the streets feel it: mid-40s in outlook even where the median age says early-40s, family cars over vans, more prams than scooters.
The Underground, not the mainline, is what makes this place work — Northwood Hills station and Northwood station both sit on the Metropolitan line, which is what lets people commute into town while still living somewhere with hedges. Schools are the more complicated part of the picture: Northwood School posts a strongly positive progress score that would turn heads anywhere in the country, but it sits alongside Haydon School and UTC Heathrow, both rated Good yet both showing negative progress figures, so the average across the area's nine schools lands only around the national norm rather than above it. Northwood College for Girls and St Helen's School add an independent-sector layer that shapes the area's reputation more than its state results do. On the property side, the market is dominated by flats and freeholds in almost equal conversation — a freehold-heavy suburb (56 against 35 leasehold in the sample) where detached houses fetch over twice the national median and even flats sell for well above it; a For Sale board here is as likely to be a two-bed conversion as a 1930s semi, and at a 21% premium over the wider Hillingdon borough, you're paying for the postcode's calm as much as the square footage.