42 addresses across 2 postcodes (N5), about 90 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 21602865.
Sales: 43 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £895,000 across 1 sale.
Energy: 17 homes have an energy certificate (C: 6, D: 8, E: 2, G: 1).
Flood: 2 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band D; Band D in Islington costs £2,108 a year in 2026-27.
Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
Transport: The nearest railway station is Drayton Park, about 540 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
Green space: The nearest park or garden, Highbury Fields, is about 370 m away.
Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 22.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 9.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
Height: Its addresses are 37 to 42 m above sea level.
Noise: 14 of its 42 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Highbury Grange Medical Practice, about 330 m away, with 18 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
People: About 440 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 55% of households owned their home and 81% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Crime: 266 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
Sales on this street
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.
Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
17 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 141 m².
Most common: House, mid-terrace (8); Flat (4); Maisonette, mid-terrace (3). Built: before 1900 (9); 1900-1929 (4); 2012 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (11); rented (private) (2); rented (social) (1).
What each band costs in Islington in 2026-27: Band D £2,108 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
£1,405
£1,640
£1,874
£2,108
£2,577
£3,045
£3,514
£4,216
Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (35% of about 740 homes).
B1%
C22%
D35%
E28%
F4%
G8%
H1%
Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount.
Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.
Planning and heritage
Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
Green belt: no.
Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)
100 Hornsey Road: up to 30 homes, permissioned (790 m (0.5 miles))
Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.
Roadworks
Finished in the last three months
11 August 2026: THAMES WATER, Remedial works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.
Flood risk
Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 0 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.
Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.
High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.
Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.
Postcode
Planning zone
Addresses at high / medium / low risk
Groundwater
N5 1TX
not in 2 or 3
0 / 1 / 0
unlikely
N5 1TU
not in 2 or 3
0 / 1 / 0
unlikely
Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains.
Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.
The street's 42 addresses are between 37 m and 42 m above sea level (39 m on average); the ground rises about 5 m from the lowest to the highest.
Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.
Broadband
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.
Availability by postcode (% of premises)
Postcode
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)
Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)
Gigabit
Below 10 Mbit/s
N5 1TU
100%
100%
100%
0%
N5 1TX
100%
100%
100%
0%
Getting around
Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.
Nearest
Distance
Railway stations
Drayton Park 729,000 journeys in 2024–25
540 m (0.3 miles)
Canonbury 2.8 million journeys in 2024–25
1 km (0.6 miles)
Finsbury Park 11 million journeys in 2024–25
1 km (0.6 miles)
Underground, metro or tram
Arsenal Underground Station
600 m (0.4 miles)
Holloway Road Underground Station
1 km (0.6 miles)
Finsbury Park Underground Station
1 km (0.6 miles)
Bus stops
7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 31 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest St Joan of Arc School Highbury
130 m
Bus or coach station
London St Pancras Megabusplus
3.3 km (2.1 miles)
Ferry terminal
Camden Lock Waterbus Camden Town
3.7 km (2.3 miles)
Car parks
2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Highbury Park Parking
150 m
EV charging points
79 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ESB Energy Charging Station
170 m
Airport with scheduled flights
London City Airport LCY
12.2 km (7.6 miles)
Nearest large airport
London Heathrow Airport LHR
26.7 km (17 miles)
Local services
Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.
Nearest
Distance
GP surgeries
18 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Highbury Grange Medical Practice
330 m
Pharmacies
26 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Highbury Pharmacy
300 m
NHS dentists
15 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Highbury Dental Practice
200 m
Hospital
St Ann's Hospital (Beh-Mht Services)
2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Police station
Police Training Centre
1 km (0.6 miles)
Cash machines
6 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM
310 m
Parks and green space
Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.
Nearest
Distance
Park or garden
6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Highbury Fields 9.8 ha
370 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)
Clissold Park 23 ha
690 m (0.4 miles)
Play area
8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed260 m²
330 m
Playing field
Unnamed190 m²
1.6 km (1 mile)
Allotments
4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed230 m²
550 m (0.3 miles)
Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 6 parks and gardens, 35 hectares in all.
Landmarks
The nearest historic landmark is Former Church of St Saviour, a listed building (Grade I), 590 m (0.4 miles) south-east. 61 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 1 of them Grade II*.
Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.
Air quality
Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.
Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
Pollutant
Here
UK limit
WHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)
22.3
40
10
Fine particles (PM2.5)
9.6
20
5
Particles (PM10)
15.9
40
15
All three are within the UK legal limits; all three are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.
Road and rail noise
Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).
Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
Level
Road traffic
Railways
60 to 64
1
0
55 to 59
13
0
Under 55
28
42
14 of the street's 42 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.
Climate, daylight and earthquakes
Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Islington: see them on the Islington page.
Nearest schools
Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.
School
Phase
Ages
Distance
Inspection
St Joan of Arc RC Primary School Roman Catholic
Primary
3–11
210 m
No published inspection
St John's Highbury Vale CofE Primary School Church of England
Primary
4–11
250 m
Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
The London Screen Academy
16 plus
16–19
380 m
No published inspection
Highbury Fields School
Secondary
11–18
380 m
No published inspection
Gillespie Primary School
Primary
3–11
440 m (0.3 miles)
Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Drayton Park Primary School
Primary
3–11
640 m (0.4 miles)
No published inspection
City of London Academy Highbury Grove
Secondary
11–18
700 m (0.4 miles)
Good (Apr 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ambler Primary School and Children's Centre
Primary
0–11
740 m (0.5 miles)
No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Parkwood Primary School
Primary
2–11
1 km (0.6 miles)
No published inspection
Pakeman Primary School
Primary
2–11
1 km (0.6 miles)
Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Stoke Newington School and Sixth Form
Secondary
11–19
1.1 km (0.7 miles)
No published inspection
Betty Layward Primary School
Primary
3–11
1.1 km (0.7 miles)
No published inspection
Food hygiene ratings nearby
Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.
Business
Type
Distance
Rating
Rated
Highbury Community Nursery N5 1TL
Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises
90 m
5 Very good
4 Jun 2024
Highbury Vintners N5 1UA
Retailers - other
100 m
5 Very good
28 Jul 2022
Jega Superstore N5 1UA
Retailers - other
110 m
5 Very good
14 Feb 2019
Lupa N5 1UA
Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen
110 m
Awaiting inspection
One Root Bakery N5 1UA
Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen
110 m
5 Very good
24 Oct 2025
Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery N5 1GF
Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises
110 m
5 Very good
27 May 2025
Farang London LTD N5 2XE
Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen
180 m
5 Very good
8 Oct 2026
Ninh's Vietnamese Restaurant N5 2XE
Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen
200 m
5 Very good
30 Sep 2025
Ink@84 Bookshop N5 2XE
Other catering premises
200 m
5 Very good
5 Apr 2022
Frank's Canteen and Caterers N5 2XE
Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen
200 m
5 Very good
12 Dec 2025
Humdingers of Highbury - The Bakery N5 2XE
Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen
200 m
5 Very good
14 May 2025
Seasons and Blossoms N5 2XE
Retailers - other
220 m
4 Good
22 Feb 2022
Myhan N5 2XE
Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen
240 m
5 Very good
7 May 2024
Highness Cafe N5 1QJ
Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen
240 m
5 Very good
19 Aug 2025
Donna Sofia N5 2AA
Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen
240 m
5 Very good
30 Oct 2024
Crime within 250 m
Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.
266 recorded crimes by category
Category
Crimes
Violence and sexual offences
61
Anti-social behaviour
56
Public order
25
Theft from the person
22
Other theft
21
Vehicle crime
18
Burglary
17
Criminal damage and arson
14
Drugs
13
Bicycle theft
9
Robbery
6
Other crime
3
Possession of weapons
1
Most of these are attached to: On or near Highbury Park (32); On or near Elphinstone Street (30); On or near Legard Road (29); On or near Highbury Hill (26); On or near Hamilton Lane (22).
People and work
Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 442 residents in 194 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.
Who lives here
Around this street
England
Median age
34
40
Children under 15
14%
17%
Aged 65 and over
8%
18%
Homes
Around this street
England
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)
55%
61%
Owned outright
20%
33%
Shared ownership
under 1%
1%
Social rented
16%
17%
Private rented
29%
21%
Work and commuting
Around this street
England
Adults (16 and over) in work
78%
57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)
3%
6%
Retired (of adults)
7%
22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)
under 1%
4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)
70%
32%
Travel to work by car or van
4%
48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram
14%
4%
By any public transport, including bus
16%
8%
On foot or by bicycle
9%
10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)
92%
65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away
4%
8%
Education and languages
Around this street
England
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)
81%
34%
No qualifications
4%
18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification
under 1%
5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)
89%
91%
Cannot speak English well or at all
under 1%
2%
Deprivation
The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.
Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.
What has changed
Food hygiene ratings Ora (restaurant/cafe/canteen, N5 1QJ) is no longer listed; it was rated Awaiting inspection found 3 November 2026
Food hygiene ratings The Cheeky Spring Roll (mobile caterer, N5 1SA) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 3 November 2026
Food hygiene ratings Legends Global Services Limited (restaurant/cafe/canteen, N5 1BU) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 3 November 2026
Food hygiene ratings GAIL's Highbury Village (restaurant/cafe/canteen, N5 1QJ) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 3 November 2026
Food hygiene ratings GAIL's Highbury Village (restaurant/cafe/canteen, N5 1QJ) is no longer listed; it was rated Awaiting inspection found 31 October 2026
Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.
Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.
How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.