World's End
Neighbourhood · 1,411 residents
55Good
Good · better than 3 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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What’s good
- Environment scores 75, well above the typical 60
- Schools scores 70, well above the typical 60
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- Prices are high for local incomes: affordability scores 32, where 60 is typical
- Food & drink scores 23, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around World's End
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Is World's End a good place to live?
World's End scores 55/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (75) and schools (70).
It scores lowest on food & drink (23) and affordability (32).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for World's End in London, each measured against the national average.
Summary of World's End
World's End sits at the quiet edge of Enfield, all semi-detached houses and low garden walls, with the kind of streetscape where cars outnumber pedestrians most of the day. It's the sort of place people move to rather than through — a suburb in the fullest sense, without a high street pulling in outside footfall, and that shows in how settled it feels underfoot.
The commuting picture runs through Oakwood Station and Oakwood Underground Station, both serving the area, which makes central London a realistic day-trip rather than a slog — useful if you're building a life around a rail season ticket. The place skews a little older than both London and the national average, and with a single school in the immediate area the picture here is thinner than the borough-wide numbers suggest, though the wider Enfield schools reputation includes solid names like Wren Academy Enfield and Hadley Wood Primary School, both rated Good. On housing, this is overwhelmingly flat country — flats make up half of recent sales — but tenure is split almost evenly between freehold and leasehold, and semi-detached houses here fetch nearly three times the national median for that property type. A For Sale board on this street is as likely to be advertising a leasehold conversion as a freehold house, and the price gap between the two is real.
Green space is tight — a single named plot of just over a hectare — which tells you this isn't an area built around parkland weekends; you'll be travelling out for anything bigger. What stands out instead is the safety picture: crime sits far below the Enfield-wide rate, and the grades bear that out, with safety and health both comfortably above the national bar even as connectivity and nightlife sit closer to average. Violence and sexual offences make up the largest single share of local crime, which is common to most London suburbs and worth noting rather than fearing given the overall low volume. Broadband is a mixed bag — full fibre reaches under half of properties, so it's worth checking street-by-street before assuming you'll get gigabit speeds.