St. Martin in the Fields
Neighbourhood · 18 residents
72Very good
Very good · better than 9 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
- Food & drink scores 99, well above the typical 60
- 5 GP practices within a short walk
- 8 rail or tube stations within a short walk
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- Prices are high for local incomes: affordability scores 13, where 60 is typical
- Safety scores 35, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around St. Martin in the Fields
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Is St. Martin in the Fields a good place to live?
St. Martin in the Fields scores 72/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for food & drink (99) and health (97).
It scores lowest on affordability (13) and safety (35).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for St. Martin in the Fields in London, each measured against the national average.
Summary of St. Martin in the Fields
Trafalgar Square sits at the edge of this postcode, and the streets around it feel less like a residential suburb than a stage set that a small number of people happen to live behind. Theatres, government buildings, and tourist flows dominate the pavements; the few residents here are outnumbered many times over by the people passing through. It attracts a particular kind of resident — someone who wants Zone 1 as an address rather than a lifestyle, who doesn't mind sharing their doorstep with crowds heading to Leicester Square of an evening.
Transport is about as good as London gets: Charing Cross Underground and mainline stations sit right on top of the area, with Leicester Square and Piccadilly Circus Underground stations also within the same small patch, so the connectivity grade here is genuinely one of the best you'll find anywhere in the capital. Schools carry a strong average Ofsted rating too, though with a population of only a few hundred and a median age of 38, this reads less as a family suburb and more as a place for professionals and older residents without school runs to plan around. Housing is almost entirely leasehold flats — the handful of recent sales were nearly all flats, one freehold among them — and at a median price north of a million pounds, well above even Westminster's already steep borough average, a for-sale board here is selling scarcity and location, not space or garden.