Edgware Road Paddington, Westminster

651 addresses across 26 postcodes (W2), about 1.2 km (0.8 miles) long, classed as a a road. USRN 8401585.

  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Westminster cost £887,206 in August 2026 (-14.3% on a year); private rents averaged £3,209 a month.
  • Energy: 347 homes have an energy certificate (B: 8, C: 201, D: 107, E: 27, F: 4).
  • Flood: 49 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A5, carries 26,480 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band G; Band D in Westminster costs £1,050 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is London Paddington, about 480 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 110 m away, and Hyde Park (130 hectares) is about 530 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 27.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 10.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 21 to 29 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 608 of its 652 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Connaught Square Practice, about 490 m (0.3 miles) away, with 14 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 2,190 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 26% of households owned their home and 56% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 1,039 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 144 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 30 of them fatal or serious; 38 involved a pedestrian.

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House 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

House prices and rents in Westminster

A typical home in Westminster cost £887,206 in August 2026, 14.3% less than a year before. That is 25% less than five years earlier and 15% less than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£3,935,497
Semi-detached£2,810,593
Terraced£1,641,592
Flat or maisonette£784,694
Bought by a first-time buyer£791,770

Private renters in Westminster paid £3,209 a month on average in September 2026, 0.4% less than a year before. That is 36% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£2,557
Two bedrooms£3,320
Three bedrooms£3,912
Four or more bedrooms£5,447

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from October 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

347 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 65 m². Most common: Flat (338); Maisonette, mid-terrace (5); Maisonette, semi-detached (1). Built: before 1900 (161); 1900-1929 (76); 1930-1949 (37). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (161); owner-occupied (116); rented (social) (20).

Each home's certificates and sales (347 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 10,358 kWh of it on average in 2024, 7% less than the district's 11,079 kWh, and 3,627 kWh of electricity, about the same as the district. There are gas meters for about 67% of the homes.

2 of its postcodes have no gas meters recorded among 10 or more homes: often flats heated by electricity, or homes off the gas grid.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
W2 2RJ592,337 kWh 245,832 kWh
W2 2RH522,179 kWh 368,837 kWh
W2 2RL382,392 kWh 263,345 kWh
W2 3UA221,008 kWh 228,933 kWh
W2 1EU292,759 kWh 102,375 kWh
W2 2RN272,581 kWh 2314,728 kWh
W2 2RR286,607 kWh 214,413 kWh
W2 1EX203,505 kWh none recorded
W2 2RW224,690 kWh 2312,573 kWh
W2 2RZ26 11 Economy 73,283 kWh none recorded
W2 3UD162,693 kWh 108,953 kWh
W2 1UL72,322 kWh 1113,794 kWh
W2 1UD71,058 kWh 611,256 kWh
W2 1UE121,817 kWh 96,291 kWh
W2 2RU52,992 kWh under 5
W2 1JQ271,452 kWh 306,392 kWh
W2 3DB652,193 kWh 598,158 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is W2.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in Westminster in 2026-27: Band D £1,050 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£700£816£933£1,050£1,283£1,516£1,749£2,099

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band G (25% of about 3,900 homes).

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 4 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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: yes, Bayswater (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 80.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): Article 4 Basement Development Permitted Rights Removed.
  • Tree preservation orders: 57 protected trees on or by this street.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

And 50 more.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 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.

Energy projects nearby

No wind turbine or waste plant within 5 km (3.1 miles), and no solar farm, battery site or other project of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles), of the street's postcodes, operating or planned.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

Started, not reported finished by 31 October 2026

  • 29 October 2026 to 4 November 2026: CADENT GAS LIMITED, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - emergency works)

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 12 November 2026: THAMES WATER, Utility asset works, lane closure, on the carriageway (minor works)
  • 20 November 2026: THAMES WATER, Utility asset works, lane closure, on the carriageway (minor works)
  • 17 January 2027: THAMES WATER, Utility asset works, two-way signals, on the carriageway (major (paa) works)
  • 17 January 2027: THAMES WATER, Utility asset works, two-way signals, on the carriageway (major works)
  • 24 January 2027: THAMES WATER, Utility asset works, two-way signals, on the carriageway (major (paa) works)
  • 24 January 2027: THAMES WATER, Utility asset works, two-way signals, on the carriageway (major works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 28 October 2026: CITY OF WESTMINSTER, Highway improvement works, no carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 23 October 2026: CITY OF WESTMINSTER, Highway improvement works, no carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 23 October 2026: CITY OF WESTMINSTER, Highway improvement works, no carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 15 October 2026: CITY OF WESTMINSTER, Highway improvement works, no carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 30 September 2026: CITY OF WESTMINSTER, Highway repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 29 September 2026: THAMES WATER, Utility asset works, multi-way signals, on the carriageway (minor works)
  • 30 September 2026: BT, Utility asset works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 18 September 2026: THAMES WATER, Utility asset works, lane closure, on the carriageway (minor works)
  • 5 September 2026: CITY OF WESTMINSTER, Highway repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 14 August 2026: CITY OF WESTMINSTER, Highway repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent 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, 38 addresses are in areas at high risk, 11 at medium risk and 54 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.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
W2 2RJnot in 2 or 3 7 / 0 / 1 unlikely
W2 2RHnot in 2 or 3 2 / 1 / 3 unlikely
W2 2RLnot in 2 or 3 8 / 4 / 0 unlikely
W2 3UAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
W2 1EUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
W2 2RNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
W2 2RRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
W2 1EXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
W2 2RWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
W2 2RYnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 4 unlikely
W2 2RZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 26 unlikely
W2 1TPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
W2 3UDnot in 2 or 3 2 / 0 / 1 unlikely
W2 1ULnot in 2 or 3 7 / 0 / 2 unlikely
W2 1UDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
W2 1UHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 3 / 2 unlikely
W2 1UEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
W2 1UBnot in 2 or 3 1 / 1 / 3 unlikely
W2 2RUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 unlikely
W2 1UAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
W2 2RXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
W2 1TUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
W2 1UFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
W2 1JQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 unlikely
W2 2SFnot in 2 or 3
W2 3DBnot in 2 or 3 10 / 2 / 5 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

Every 1 km square the street's postcodes are in is in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 654 addresses are between 21 m and 29 m above sea level (26 m on average); the ground rises about 9 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)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
W2 1EU100%100%100%0%
W2 1EX100%100%100%0%
W2 1JQ93%61%61%0%
W2 1TP100%100%100%0%
W2 1TU100%100%100%0%
W2 1UA100%100%100%0%
W2 1UB100%100%100%0%
W2 1UD39%39%39%0%
W2 1UE100%100%100%0%
W2 1UF0%0%0%0%
W2 1UH100%100%100%0%
W2 1UL69%69%69%0%
W2 2RH100%96%96%0%
W2 2RJ100%29%29%0%
W2 2RL100%100%100%0%
W2 2RN100%100%100%0%
W2 2RR100%100%97%0%
W2 2RU100%100%100%0%
W2 2RW100%100%100%0%
W2 2RX100%100%100%0%
W2 2RY100%32%32%0%
W2 2RZ100%11%11%0%
W2 2SF100%100%100%0%
W2 3DB100%100%100%0%
W2 3UA19%19%19%0%
W2 3UD100%16%16%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.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsLondon Paddington 70 million journeys in 2024–25480 m (0.3 miles)
London Marylebone 12 million journeys in 2024–25760 m (0.5 miles)
Bond Street 43 million journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Underground, metro or tramEdgware Road (Circle Line) Underground Station340 m
Edgware Road (Bakerloo) Underground Station370 m
Paddington Underground Station440 m (0.3 miles)
Bus stops19 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 55 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sussex Gardens Lisson Grove30 m
Bus or coach stationVictoria Station2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Ferry terminalLittle Venice Waterbus Stop1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Car parks8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest National Car Parks210 m
EV charging points52 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge180 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY15.7 km (9.7 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR20.8 km (13 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries14 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Connaught Square Practice Good Apr 2026490 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies40 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Pharmacentre200 m
NHS dentists61 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cambridge Court Dental Surgery110 m
HospitalSt Mary's Hospital Requires improvement Jul 2023290 m
Care homes2 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Forrester Court Good Sep 20251.6 km (1 mile)
Police stationLondon Police Jail300 m
Cash machines6 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest M&S ATM290 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.

NearestDistance
Park or garden18 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,840 m²110 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Hyde Park 130 ha530 m (0.3 miles)
Play area9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 170 m²410 m (0.3 miles)
Playing fieldPaddington Recreation Ground 11 ha2 km (1.2 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1,320 m²1.6 km (1 mile)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 18 parks and gardens, 245 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Water Gardens Designed Landscape, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 150 m east. 483 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 7 of them Grade I and 8 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Water Gardens Designed LandscapeRegistered park or garden, Grade II150 m east
King Solomon AcademyListed building, Grade II*540 m (0.3 miles) north
Christ ChurchListed building, Grade II*550 m (0.3 miles) north
Paddington Station Including the Lawn, Gwr Office Block on London Street and Offices Along Eastbourne TerraceListed building, Grade I550 m (0.3 miles) west
Church of St MaryListed building, Grade II*560 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Portman Square and Manchester SquareRegistered park or garden, Grade II1 km (0.6 miles) east
A subterranean commercial ice-well (City of Westminster), Park Crescent West, W1Scheduled monument1.7 km (1 mile) east
Kensington PalaceScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Palace of Westminster, Westminster Abbey and St. Margaret's ChurchWorld Heritage Site3.6 km (2.2 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Paddington GreenWood510 m (0.3 miles) north-west
The FountainsLake or reservoir840 m (0.5 miles) south-west
The Long WaterLake or reservoir1.1 km (0.7 miles) south
The SerpentineLake or reservoir1.3 km (0.8 miles) south
Barrow HillHill2.4 km (1.5 miles) north
Duck IslandIsland3.1 km (1.9 miles) south-east

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)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)27.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)10.0205
Particles (PM10)17.04015

All three are within the UK legal limits; all three are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road, rail and aircraft 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)
LevelRoad trafficRailwaysAircraft
75 dB or more900
70 to 7430400
65 to 6923900
60 to 644200
55 to 591400
Under 5544652652

608 of the street's 652 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 Westminster: see them on the Westminster page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 5 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Hampden Gurney CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11350 m Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 100% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 19% at the higher standard (2025; 100% in 2024 and 100% in 2023)
Ark King Solomon AcademyAll-through2–18480 m (0.3 miles) Outstanding (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 73% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 4% at the higher standard (2025; 68% in 2024 and 71% in 2023)
GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 50.4 (51.3 in 2025 and 59.6 in 2024); 56.3% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade B-; 22% AAB or better; progress average
Christ Church Bentinck CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11540 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection 78% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 13% at the higher standard (2025; 92% in 2024 and 83% in 2023)
Marylebone AcademySecondary11–19560 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 45.0 (48.6 in 2025 and 52.4 in 2024); 51.8% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C; 3.4% AAB or better; progress below average
St Mary's Bryanston Square CofE School Church of EnglandPrimary2–11580 m (0.4 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 87% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 13% at the higher standard (2025; 100% in 2024 and 57% in 2023)
United Colleges Group16 plus16–99630 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection A level 2025: average grade D-; 0% AAB or better; progress well below average
St Edward's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11750 m (0.5 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 71% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 4% at the higher standard (2025; 90% in 2024 and 74% in 2023)
St James & St John Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11830 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 95% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 32% at the higher standard (2025; 82% in 2024 and 71% in 2023)
Portman Early Childhood CentreNursery2–5910 m (0.6 miles) Outstanding (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Gateway AcademyPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 62% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 51% in 2024 and 66% in 2023)
St Vincent's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) None published
Hallfield Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection 50% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 4% at the higher standard (2025; 83% in 2024 and 73% in 2023)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 680 m (0.4 miles); the nearest is 110 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Micky Star Community Children's Centre W2 1QR Full day care 62 Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 110 m
Maryam's Nursery W2 1JB Full day care 45 Not inspected yet 190 m
Partou Merchant Square Day Nursery & Pre-School W2 1AJ Full day care 69 Good (Sep 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 280 m
Junior Adventures Group @ Hampden Gurney W1H W1H 5HA Out-of-school day care 30 Not inspected yet 370 m
Miss Daisy's Nursery School, Hyde Park W2 2AX Sessional day care 65 Mar 2026: Strong standard in 2 areas, Expected standard in 4 390 m
Fine Education Care LTD NW1 6RX Sessional day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 510 m (0.3 miles)
Junior Adventures Group @ Christ Church Bentinck NW1 NW1 5NS Out-of-school day care 20 Not inspected yet 540 m (0.3 miles)
Odyssey London NW1 6JF Full day care 106 Not inspected yet 600 m (0.4 miles)
Phileas Fox Nursery School W2 1SE Full day care 50 Good (Sep 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 640 m (0.4 miles)
Little Elves Montessori NW1 6UH Full day care 30 Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 680 m (0.4 miles)

Ofsted also registers 44 childminders and 23 home childcarers (nannies) in Westminster. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 5 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.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Monkey Puzzle Public House W2 1JQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m5 Very good7 Sep 2026
Satay House Restaurant W2 1PXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good16 Aug 2023
Al Dewaan Restaurant W2 1PXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 mAwaiting inspection
Jamuna W2 1JQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good19 Oct 2023
Yeotown Sussex Gardens W2 1JQHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house90 m5 Very good22 Feb 2025
International Community School W2 1QBSchool/college/university100 m5 Very good3 Sep 2024
Orchard Hotel W2 1UHHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house110 m4 Good22 Aug 2025
Yamany corner W2 1PURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m3 Generally satisfactory12 Aug 2025
Micky Star Day nursery W2 1QRSchool/college/university120 m3 Generally satisfactory21 Sep 2026
Prime Inn W2 1UHHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house120 m1 Major improvement necessary23 Mar 2026
Bonda W2 1PURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good25 Jun 2025
Royal Exchange Public House W2 1PURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good1 Sep 2023
Monopole Hotel W2 1UHHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house140 m5 Very good13 Dec 2011
Blessing Express W2 1NRManufacturers/packers160 m2 Improvement necessary28 May 2026
Belmont Hotel W2 1UHHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house160 m5 Very good22 Aug 2025

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.

1,039 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences209
Anti-social behaviour189
Other theft149
Theft from the person118
Drugs63
Public order60
Burglary52
Criminal damage and arson39
Vehicle crime39
Robbery36
Bicycle theft26
Shoplifting25
Other crime23
Possession of weapons11

Most of these are attached to: On or near Old Marylebone Road (160); On or near Junction Place (114); On or near Parking Area (103); On or near Edgware Road (84); On or near Praed Mews (75).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

144 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 30 serious and 114 slight, in which 30 people were seriously hurt. 38 involved a pedestrian; 50 involved a cyclist; 28 involved a motorcyclist; 1 involved a child under 16. 31% happened in the dark, and 21% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 20 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
2021286
2022353
2023299
2024289
2025243
The most recent 10 of 144
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
8 Nov 2025 22:15 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist A5, 20 mph Dark, street lights on
4 Nov 2025 13:20 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist A4209, 20 mph Daylight
30 Oct 2025 15:45 Serious 1 person: 1 motorcyclist A4209, 20 mph Daylight
23 Oct 2025 16:37 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist A5, 20 mph Wet road
24 Aug 2025 15:54 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist A4209, 20 mph Daylight
11 Aug 2025 15:11 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian A4205, 20 mph Daylight
4 Aug 2025 18:35 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist A402, 20 mph Daylight
9 Jul 2025 22:30 Serious 1 person A4209, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
29 Jun 2025 21:00 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian A4209, 20 mph Dark, street lights on
28 Jun 2025 19:55 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian A4209, 20 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A5 between Praed St and A501/A4209, with 26,480 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 60 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A4209 Bayswater Rd to A5/A501 14,423 estimated; counted 2018 2% -46% since 2015 30 m
A5 Praed St to A501/A4209 26,480 estimated; counted 2024 2% -26% since 2015 60 m
A4205 Eastbourne Terrace to A5 6,299 counted 2025 1% 140 m
A501 A5/A4205 to Intersection with Old Marylebone Road and Chapel Street 5,071 estimated; counted 2024 2% 150 m
A5 A40 to Praed St 26,480 estimated; counted 2024 2% -26% since 2015 170 m
A501 A5/A4209 to Intersection with Old Marylebone Road and Chapel Street 13,051 counted 2025 1% 180 m

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 8 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 2,189 residents in 888 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 streetEngland
Median age2940
Children under 156%17%
Aged 65 and over12%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)26%61%
Owned outright16%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented15%17%
Private rented59%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work43%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)9%6%
Retired (of adults)10%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)57%32%
Travel to work by car or van6%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram13%4%
By any public transport, including bus19%8%
On foot or by bicycle14%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)90%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away2%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)56%34%
No qualifications10%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification1%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)63%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The 4 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 2 to 8 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: THAMES WATER: Utility asset works, 20 November 2026 (lane closure) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: THAMES WATER: Utility asset works, 24 January 2027 (two-way signals) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: THAMES WATER: Utility asset works, 24 January 2027 (two-way signals) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: THAMES WATER: Utility asset works, 12 November 2026 (lane closure) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: CITY OF WESTMINSTER: Highway improvement works, 23 October 2026 (no carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026

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Postcodes on this street

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.

Nearby streets

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  • 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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
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  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
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  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
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