Regent's Park
Neighbourhood · 23,112 residents
52Fair
Fair · better than 2 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
- 212 places to eat and drink
- 24 GP practices within a short walk
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- Prices are high for local incomes: affordability scores 13, where 60 is typical
- Safety scores 30, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Regent's Park
Map outline: Approximate — electoral ward boundary, used as the nearest surveyed shape
Is Regent's Park a good place to live?
Regent's Park scores 52/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for food & drink (97) and health (91).
It scores lowest on affordability (13) and safety (30).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Regent's Park in London, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Regent's Park
Regent's Park reads as terraces of white stucco, big-canopy plane trees, and the kind of quiet that comes from a resident population thin enough to be outnumbered by the park itself on any given afternoon. You won't find a conventional high street here — this is a place people live adjacent to, wrapped around one of London's great open spaces rather than organised around shops and cafés. It attracts a settled, well-off crowd: the median age sits close to 39, and the income and deprivation figures both place it in the top tenth nationally, which in practice means detached wealth rather than visible affluence — you sense it in the upkeep of the buildings more than in any parade of restaurants.
Getting around leans on the Underground rather than the high-speed rail network — Baker Street station anchors the area — and with only a handful of transport stops locally, this suits someone who works from home or has a short, predictable commute into central London rather than someone criss-crossing the city daily. Schooling is thin on the ground in the immediate area — Saint Christina's, an independent school, is the one named locally — so families here are more likely paying for education than relying on the local state offer, which fits a spot where a For Sale board almost always says "leasehold flat": of the recent sales tracked, nearly all were flats, every single one leasehold, and prices for those flats run at roughly four times the national median for the type. This is not freehold-house territory, and it never was.