The London map
This map shows the ingredients. The app gives you the answer.
22 measures is a lot to hold in your head, and comparing two places means switching between them one at a time. AreaScore weighs crime, transport, schools and green space into a single 1-10 score for any London postcode — down to the street, not the district — so you can compare two addresses at a glance rather than one measure at a time.
Open app (Beta)Recorded crime comes from Police.uk, stations and bus routes from TfL, schools and inspection grades from Ofsted and the DfE, green space from Ordnance Survey, and everything about the people who live there from Census 2021. Each measure names its own source under the picker.
Every measure is shaded in the same teal, and the shade means one thing only: how much of it there is. The deeper the colour, the more — more offences, more stations, more hectares, more graduates. That is deliberate. Colouring some measures as good and others as bad would mean deciding on your behalf whether a young renting neighbourhood or an older owner-occupied one is the better place to live, and that is not a judgement a map should make. The line under the scale says which end is which; the ranking is yours.
Ready to see your postcode’s score?
You’ve seen the ingredients. Get the answer for any London postcode — down to the street, not the district.
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