Southall
Neighbourhood · 16,980 residents
45Fair
Fair · among the lowest-scoring 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
- 100% of schools are rated Good or better by Ofsted
- 17 GP practices within a short walk
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- Prices are high for local incomes: affordability scores 27, where 60 is typical
- Safety scores 32, below the typical 60
- Transport scores 38, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Southall
Map outline: Approximate — electoral ward boundary, used as the nearest surveyed shape
Is Southall a good place to live?
Southall scores 45/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for schools (74) and health (71).
It scores lowest on affordability (27) and safety (32).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Southall in London, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Southall
The Broadway in Southall reads at a glance: sari shops next to sweet counters, jewellers with hand-painted signs, the smell of tandoor smoke drifting out of doorways that have been feeding the same families for two generations. This is one of the most densely South Asian corners of London, and the streetscape wears it plainly — Punjabi lettering above the chain pharmacies, produce piled outside grocers, a pace that's brisk without being brittle. People come here from across the city to eat and shop; the people who live here treat it as an ordinary high street that happens to be extraordinary.
The economics tell you who this actually serves. Housing sits around £448k against an Ealing median closer to £500k, so you're paying about fourteen percent less than the borough average and getting mostly terraces — the classic two-up-two-down London stock, largely freehold, with a scattering of newer flats. That's still comfortably above the national picture, but for zone-four London with an Elizabeth line connection at Southall Rail Station into central London and Canary Wharf, the maths is doing something specific: it's letting working households onto the property ladder in a city that mostly won't. Schools reinforce that read. Villiers High is a large secondary posting a Progress 8 score well above the national mean, meaning kids here are gaining more ground between eleven and sixteen than the average English pupil; Blair Peach and Hambrough at primary level are both rated Good. For a family weighing state schooling against price, that combination is the whole argument for the area.