Summerstown
Neighbourhood · 25 residents
65Good
Good · better than 7 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
- Schools scores 78, well above the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 71, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 46% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Prices are high for local incomes: affordability scores 19, where 60 is typical
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Summerstown
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Summerstown a good place to live?
Summerstown scores 65/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for schools (78) and food & drink (71).
It scores lowest on affordability (19).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Summerstown in London, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Summerstown
Terraced Victorian streets packed tight around the railway, flats carved out of bigger houses, a steady stream of people in their thirties heading somewhere on foot or by train — that's the texture of Summerstown before you've read a single number. It's dense, it's built-up, and it doesn't pretend to be anything other than inner London suburbia doing what inner London suburbia does.
Earlsfield Station anchors the practical side of life here, and with a median age of 33 this reads as a working commuter's patch rather than a settled family enclave — though Smallwood Primary School and Language Unit, rated Good, gives it enough schooling credibility that those who do have young children aren't forced out. Burntwood School, the local secondary, posts a Progress 8 score of 0.34, comfortably positive and a reassuring sign for parents watching that stage approach. Housing is dominated by leasehold flats — the sample of local sales runs two-thirds flats to a smaller core of terraces — so a For Sale board here is far more likely to mean a purchase with a service charge and a share of freehold than a full house with a garden.
Green space is modest rather than generous — nine plots totalling under sixteen hectares means you're not spoilt for park choice, though what's there does the job for a dog walk or a Sunday lunch outdoors. The area's real personality shows in its grades: schools and nightlife both come out at the top of the national scale, safety likewise, which sits oddly against a transport grade that only just clears average and an affordability grade that's frankly poor — this is a place that rewards you socially and educationally while taxing you hard at the cashpoint and testing your patience on the commute. That crime rate is worth sitting with for a second: violence and sexual offences make up nearly half of all recorded incidents, and the overall rate runs more than double Wandsworth's borough average — a genuine outlier against an otherwise reassuring safety grade, and worth checking against your own risk tolerance rather than dismissing.