Neon signage, theatre crowds, and a density of restaurants and bars that tells you within a few steps this isn't a residential street in the ordinary sense — Soho reads more like a stage set that people also happen to live on. The flats above the bars are real, but the ground floor belongs entirely to hospitality, and that trade-off sits at the heart of everything else here. Getting around is where Soho quietly overperforms: Tottenham Court Road sits alongside Underground stations at Piccadilly Circus, Oxford Circus and Leicester Square, so a resident here is rarely more than a few minutes from anywhere in central London, and the connectivity grade reflects it. Schooling is a different story in scale rather than quality — Soho Parish CofE Primary and All Souls CofE Primary serve the small resident population, and the schools grade is strong, but with population this size, family life is the exception rather than the rule; the median age of 34 points to a place mostly filled with single people and couples rather than households with children walking to the school gate. Housing follows the same logic: this is flat-and-leasehold territory almost without exception, thirty of thirty-nine recent sales were flats, freeholds barely feature, and a "For Sale" board here means a lease on a compact upper-floor conversion above a restaurant, not a family house with a garden. Green space is genuinely scarce — four small spaces totalling about a hectare, which is a fraction of what's typical even for inner London — so the outdoor Saturday here is spent in Soho Square if anywhere, and the rest of leisure life happens indoors, in the restaurants and bars that give the area its A+ nightlife grade. That same density of eating and drinking options is the point of living here rather than a side benefit: this is a place organised around going out, not staying in. Health provision scores well, which matters given how hard the area is used around the clock. The number that will stop most people short is crime: theft from the person and other theft together account for more than half of all recorded incidents, a pattern typical of a nightlife and tourist-dense West End postcode but one that pushes the safety grade down to a D even as almost every other grade sits at B+ or above — a genuine outlier in an otherwise strong picture, and worth sitting with rather than glossing over. On price, Soho sits above even Westminster's already elevated figures, with typical values running over a fifth higher than the borough median and comfortably in the top few percent nationally; the affordability grade reflects that squeeze plainly. This is a place that suits someone who wants to step out of their front door into the middle of everything, is untroubled by noise and footfall at all hours, and is prepared to treat personal theft risk as a fact of life rather than a rare event. It suits renters and single professionals more naturally than families, and it rewards people who value being at the centre of London's social life over having a garden, a quiet street, or much green space to retreat to.