Locatio London
Methodology

Six things that matter, weighted the way you want.

Somewhere that feels safe. Green space to walk the dog. Interesting places to eat. We all want something different from our neighbourhood.

Locatio lets you choose what's important to you and shows you the areas that fit best. Real data, real comparisons — to help you find the neighbourhoods, and even the individual roads, that suit your needs. Not just a pile of stats to make sense of yourself: six things that matter, one number, then narrowed down to the street once you've found somewhere worth a closer look.

Your six criteria

Criterion
What it looks at
Why it matters
Village character
Whether a place still has a proper centre of its own, rather than being somewhere you mostly drive through.
The difference between an address and somewhere you actually feel part of.
Independent scene
Density of independent shops, cafés and restaurants versus chains.
Whether a high street has its own character, or the same names you'd find anywhere else.
Quiet streets
Based on each street's type and position in the road network — not a measured traffic count.†
The biggest gap between how an area looks online and how it feels to live on a specific street.
Green space
Genuine walkable access to parks and open space - how close usable green space really is on foot.
Green space you can't easily reach barely gets used, so proximity is what turns it into part of daily life.
Culture & leisure
Access to the things you do on evenings and weekends — venues, galleries, sport.
Day-to-day life happens outside the four walls of the house.
Schools
The number of good-or-better state schools within reach, using Ofsted inspections and the DfE schools register. Private schools are listed separately but aren't scored — only state schools are inspected on a comparable basis.
Good state schools nearby lift desirability and resale demand, even if you don't have children — though being near a good school isn't the same as being in its catchment.

† Precise vehicle flow and noise vary street to street and can't be measured everywhere, so treat this as a strong guide, not a guarantee — we'd always recommend visiting at different times of day.

Alongside the score

shown, not scored

Some things matter to buyers but don't belong in a weighted score — either because "good" means something different to everyone, or because they're a yes/no check rather than a spectrum. Switch them on as map overlays, or mark nearby places to your own taste. They colour the map, not the number.

Overlays & nearby
Tube & rail stations EV charging points Food & drink Shops & services Education & childcare Health & recreation Culture & community Gaming & other
Data sources

Where our scores come from

Every score you see is built on official, publicly accountable data — not opinion, not crowd-sourced ratings, and nothing we've made up. Here's what sits underneath the numbers.

Crime & safety

Recorded crime data from the Home Office and local police forces (police.uk), the same source used in official reporting.

Transport & connectivity

Journey times and network data from Transport for London, so connectivity reflects how you'd actually get around, not just distance on a map.

Schools

Ofsted inspection ratings and the Department for Education schools register — the recognised national standard for judging state schools.

Property & the local market

HM Land Registry sold-price records, the definitive public record of what homes actually sell for.

Environment & green space

Official data on parks, air quality and green cover from public environmental sources.

The neighbourhood itself

Census and Office for National Statistics data for the demographic and community picture.

We refresh these sources regularly so your results reflect the London of today, not years ago.

What we don't do

We don't sell your data, and we don't let anyone pay to move up the rankings. The scores are the scores.

Your weights

There's no single best neighbourhood.

Every one of those six carries a different weight depending on what matters to you. Move the sliders and every score recalculates instantly — a family prioritising quiet streets and green space will see a different "best area" than a couple prioritising culture and an independent food scene. There's the one that scores highest against what you value.

Move the sliders
Stoke Newington · sample
73 /100
Village character30
Independent scene20
Quiet streets15
Green space15
Culture & leisure10
Schools5
Reading the score

The same area can score differently for two different people.

Because the score reflects the weights you've set, the same area can score differently for two different people. As a rough guide:

85–100 A strong match across most of what you've told us matters.
70–84 Solid, with one or two trade-offs worth checking in the breakdown.
50–69 Mixed — good on some priorities, weaker on others.
< 50 Likely not a natural fit for the priorities you've set.
Down to the street

A neighbourhood score is a starting point, not the final word. The same area can contain a quiet tree-lined street and a road that funnels traffic past your front door. Once you've picked an area, drop to street level to see how the picture changes postcode by postcode.

See how your priorities score →