Strawberry Hill
Neighbourhood · 9,227 residents
82Very good
Very good · better than 9 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: 43 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- 25 places to eat and drink
- 7 GP practices within a short walk
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- Prices are high for local incomes: affordability scores 23, where 60 is typical
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Strawberry Hill
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Is Strawberry Hill a good place to live?
Strawberry Hill scores 82/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (88) and food & drink (78).
It scores lowest on affordability (23).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Strawberry Hill in London, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Strawberry Hill
Strawberry Hill looks the way its name suggests it should: red-brick villas, hedges cut with intent, and a station building that feels more like a village halt than a London terminus. The streets around it are quiet in the way that money makes streets quiet — not empty, just unhurried. You won't find much passing trade here; this is a place people go home to, not through.
The practical picture is straightforward if not cheap. Strawberry Hill station puts you on a direct line into town, and with a median age of 40.7 this reads as settled-family and established-professional territory rather than a graduate share-house scene — people who've arrived, not people passing through on their way somewhere else. Schools are the strongest card in the hand: the area's schools grade comes out well above the national average, and families here can choose between the state primaries — Stanley Primary, St James's Catholic — and a cluster of independents like Newland House and The Mall School, which is unusual density for a suburb this size. Housing is where the numbers bite. A median price around £687,500 sits noticeably above both the London region and the national picture, and it's a touch above the Richmond upon Thames borough average too — this is not a bargain corner of the borough, just a slightly pricier one, and the past year has seen values ease back rather than climb.
Green space is generously provided for a place this dense — over 30 hectares spread across a dozen spaces, well ahead of the national norm per head — and that shapes the rhythm of life here more than any high street does: dog walks, push-chairs, the odd cricket match, rather than café culture. What a For Sale board actually promises on these streets is a freehold terraced or semi — the sales data leans heavily terraced, heavily freehold, with flats making up a real but secondary share for those not chasing a garden. That tenure mix, plus the area's building stock, gives the housing grade a solid B even as affordability lags behind it — the two grades pulling in different directions is the honest tension of the place.