Piano Yard Kentish Town, Camden

13 addresses across 2 postcodes (NW5), about 40 m long. USRN 20499406.

  • Sales: 15 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £790,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Camden cost £798,486 in August 2026 (-10.6% on a year); private rents averaged £2,834 a month.
  • Energy: 9 homes have an energy certificate (B: 9).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 A400, carries 14,088 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band D; Band D in Camden costs £2,208 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Kentish Town, about 310 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Montpelier Gardens, is about 500 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 22.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 9.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 38 to 40 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 13 of its 13 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Parliament Hill Surgery, about 320 m away, with 13 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 930 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 30% of households owned their home and 68% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 429 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.
  • Road safety: 20 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 2 of them fatal or serious; 4 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.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20231£790,000£790,000£790,000
20203£900,000£715,000£1,250,000
20191£1,050,000£1,050,000£1,050,000
20171£1,300,000£1,300,000£1,300,000
20149£922,500£795,000£1,095,000
All 15 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
11 May 20171 NW5 1BFFlat or maisonette£1,300,000Leasehold.
22 Aug 20141 NW5 1BFFlat or maisonette£1,095,000New build. Leasehold.
17 Jul 20202 NW5 1BFFlat or maisonette£715,000Leasehold.
15 Aug 20142 NW5 1BFFlat or maisonette£799,000New build. Leasehold.
15 Sep 20233 NW5 1BFFlat or maisonette£790,000Leasehold.
30 Jun 20143 NW5 1BFFlat or maisonette£795,000New build. Leasehold.
26 Mar 20204 NW5 1BFTerraced£1,250,000Leasehold.
19 Sep 20144 NW5 1BFTerraced£1,095,000New build. Leasehold.
11 Jul 20145 NW5 1BFFlat or maisonette£825,000Leasehold.
14 Jul 20146 NW5 1BFFlat or maisonette£830,000New build. Leasehold.
23 Nov 20207 NW5 1BFFlat or maisonette£900,000Leasehold.
30 Jun 20147 NW5 1BFFlat or maisonette£922,500New build. Leasehold.
6 Aug 20148 NW5 1BFFlat or maisonette£975,000New build. Leasehold.
6 Sep 20199 NW5 1BFFlat or maisonette£1,050,000Leasehold.
15 Aug 20149 NW5 1BFFlat or maisonette£1,050,000New build. Leasehold.

House prices and rents in Camden

A typical home in Camden cost £798,486 in August 2026, 10.6% less than a year before. That is 7% less than five years earlier and 5% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£3,574,639
Semi-detached£2,080,738
Terraced£1,533,317
Flat or maisonette£656,955
Bought by a first-time buyer£696,585

Private renters in Camden paid £2,834 a month on average in September 2026, 1.4% more than a year before. That is 38% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£2,063
Two bedrooms£2,634
Three bedrooms£3,071
Four or more bedrooms£3,986

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 June 2014 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

9 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 78 m². Most common: Flat (9). Built: 2013 (8); 2012 onwards (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (9 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 7,635 kWh of it on average in 2024, 25% less than the district's 10,205 kWh, and 3,327 kWh of electricity, 22% more than the district's 2,735 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
NW5 1BF61,715 kWh 67,499 kWh
NW5 1NS63,875 kWh 66,765 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 NW5.

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 Camden in 2026-27: Band D £2,208 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,472£1,717£1,962£2,208£2,698£3,189£3,679£4,415

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band D (25% of about 1,890 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 2 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: 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): Basements, Commercial, Business, and Service (Use Class E) to residential (Use Class C3) (outside CAZ).
  • 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)

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

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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.

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 13 addresses are between 38 m and 40 m above sea level (40 m on average).

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
NW5 1BF100%100%100%0%
NW5 1NS100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 8 November 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 stationsKentish Town 2.6 million journeys in 2024–25310 m
Gospel Oak 2.7 million journeys in 2024–25650 m (0.4 miles)
Kentish Town West 1.9 million journeys in 2024–25780 m (0.5 miles)
Underground, metro or tramKentish Town Underground Station320 m
Tufnell Park Underground Station500 m (0.3 miles)
Chalk Farm Underground Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 41 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Greenwood Centre Kentish Town100 m
Bus or coach stationFinchley Road Underground Station2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Ferry terminalCamden Lock Waterbus Camden Town1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Car parksGuiseppe Parking1.1 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points70 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ubitricity180 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY14.7 km (9.1 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR23.9 km (15 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 8 November 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 surgeries13 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Parliament Hill Surgery Good Apr 2024320 m
Pharmacies21 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wellcare Pharmacy300 m
NHS dentists17 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery300 m
HospitalThe Whittington Hospital Requires improvement Mar 20261.5 km (0.9 miles)
Care homes5 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Lime Tree Gardens Good Apr 2026120 m
Police stationKentish Town Police Station380 m
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest MY Shop Cashzone400 m (0.2 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, October 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 garden7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Montpelier Gardens 4,800 m²500 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Hampstead Heath 316 ha590 m (0.4 miles)
Play area18 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 560 m²190 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 780 m²680 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 880 m²460 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 7 parks and gardens, 318 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Numbers 6 to 27 and Attached Railings and Lamp Holders, a listed building (Grade II*), 690 m (0.4 miles) north-west. 65 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 4 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Numbers 6 to 27 and Attached Railings and Lamp HoldersListed building, Grade II*690 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Church of St MartinListed building, Grade I760 m (0.5 miles) west
Church of St Mary BrookfieldListed building, Grade II*760 m (0.5 miles) north
Church of St Luke with St PaulListed building, Grade II*770 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Highgate CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade I1.5 km (0.9 miles) north
Waterlow ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.7 km (1.1 miles) north
Bell Barrow called Boadicea's Grave, 650m west of Millfield CottageScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Palace of Westminster, Westminster Abbey and St. Margaret's ChurchWorld Heritage Site6.1 km (3.8 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Number 1 PondLake or reservoir1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Parliament HillHill1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Belsize WoodWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) west
Number 2 PondLake or reservoir1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Number 3 PondLake or reservoir1.7 km (1.1 miles) north-west
Highgate PondsLake or reservoir1.7 km (1.1 miles) north-west

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)22.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)9.4205
Particles (PM10)14.94015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 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)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
65 to 6910
55 to 59120
Under 55013

13 of the street's 13 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 Camden: see them on the Camden page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 14 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
Eleanor Palmer Primary SchoolPrimary3–11280 m Outstanding (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 93% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 28% at the higher standard (2025; 83% in 2024 and 83% in 2023)
Kentish Town Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11420 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection 70% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 17% at the higher standard (2025; 72% in 2024 and 57% in 2023)
St Patrick's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11420 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding 69% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 13% at the higher standard (2025; 61% in 2024 and 79% in 2023)
Acland Burghley SchoolSecondary11–18510 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 55.2 (49.9 in 2025 and 50.4 in 2024); 61.2% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade B-; 8.1% AAB or better; progress average
Gospel Oak Primary SchoolPrimary3–11710 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 68% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5% at the higher standard (2025; 77% in 2024 and 68% in 2023)
Torriano Primary SchoolPrimary3–11740 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection 81% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 18% at the higher standard (2025; 81% in 2024 and 77% in 2023)
Parliament Hill SchoolSecondary11–18800 m (0.5 miles) Outstanding (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 58.6 (57.1 in 2025 and 58.9 in 2024); 68.8% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C+; 5.9% AAB or better; progress below average
Rhyl Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–11830 m (0.5 miles) Outstanding (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 67% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 72% in 2024 and 77% in 2023)
Lift Beacon HighSecondary11–16850 m (0.5 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) None published
Tufnell Park Primary SchoolPrimary2–11890 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection 84% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 19% at the higher standard (2025; 77% in 2024 and 73% in 2023)
William Ellis SchoolSecondary11–18890 m (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 43.8 (48.2 in 2025 and 48.8 in 2024); 50.4% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C; 10.2% AAB or better; progress below average
La Sainte Union Catholic Secondary School Roman CatholicSecondary11–18930 m (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 54.4 (48.5 in 2025 and 48.7 in 2024); 57.1% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C+; 3.6% AAB or better; progress average

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 630 m (0.4 miles); the nearest is 310 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Rainbow Day Nursery and Pre-School NW5 2HY Full day care 36 Good (Jan 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 310 m
Bloomsbury Football - Acland Burghley School NW5 1UH Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 340 m
The Spanish Nursery and Children's Centre for Culture and Language NW5 1UX Full day care 37 Good (Feb 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 380 m
N Family Club Kentish Town NW5 2QE Full day care 117 Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 400 m (0.2 miles)
Little Nemo Nursery Tufnell Park NW5 2HR Full day care 24 Good (Sep 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 410 m (0.3 miles)
NW5 Community Play Project NW5 2TU Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 420 m (0.3 miles)
Montessori Garden Nursery School NW5 2BP Full day care 50 Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 530 m (0.3 miles)
Polkadots NW5 4DP Full day care 25 Good (Jun 2021, overall grade under the previous framework) 550 m (0.3 miles)
CCN Montpelier Nursery N19 5AH Full day care 24 Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 550 m (0.3 miles)
Caversham NW5 2DR Full day care 47 Good (Aug 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 630 m (0.4 miles)

Ofsted also registers 70 childminders and 53 home childcarers (nannies) in Camden. 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 14 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
Koncept Coffee NW5 1EBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen30 m5 Very good25 Jun 2026
The Post - Ehcp Special Need CIC NW5 1UERetailers - other50 mAwaiting inspection
Co-operative Group Food Ltd NW5 1AARetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets90 m5 Very good26 Mar 2023
Unity Kitchen Greenwood NW5 1LBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m4 Good21 Nov 2024
SIK FAAN NW5 1NRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m4 Good19 Nov 2024
Lime Tree Gardens NW5 1UEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises100 m5 Very good11 Oct 2023
Patron NW5 2HBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m4 Good26 Jun 2026
The Forum NW5 1JYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m5 Very good19 Nov 2024
TABAC BAR LTD NW5 2EUTakeaway/sandwich shop110 m5 Very good23 Nov 2022
The Queen of Sheba NW5 2EURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m2 Improvement necessary29 Sep 2026
Shiraz Wine Off Lisence NW5 1ADRetailers - other140 m5 Very good2 May 2024
BONGA NW5 2ESRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good19 Dec 2025
Cafe Palestina NW5 1ADRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m4 Good17 Jan 2025
CLAPTON CRAFT NW5 2THRetailers - other160 m5 Very good4 Nov 2022
TURKISH BBQ KEBAB NW5 2TJTakeaway/sandwich shop160 mAwaiting inspection

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.

429 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour135
Violence and sexual offences96
Shoplifting65
Other theft35
Public order24
Theft from the person21
Burglary16
Vehicle crime13
Bicycle theft7
Criminal damage and arson6
Robbery4
Drugs4
Other crime3

Most of these are attached to: On or near Fortess Road (104); On or near Supermarket (84); On or near Theatre/Concert Hall (49); On or near Leverton Place (47); On or near Evangelist Road (21).

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.

20 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 2 serious and 18 slight, in which 2 people were seriously hurt. 4 involved a pedestrian; 9 involved a cyclist; 2 involved a motorcyclist. 20% happened in the dark, and 20% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 20 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202130
202251
202310
202461
202550
The most recent 10 of 20
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
26 Sep 2025 20:24 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian A400, 20 mph Dark, street lights on
18 Jun 2025 05:36 Slight 1 person A400, 20 mph Daylight
28 Apr 2025 09:45 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist A400, 20 mph Daylight
26 Mar 2025 03:05 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist B518, 20 mph Daylight
24 Feb 2025 14:03 Slight 1 person B518, 20 mph Daylight
26 Nov 2024 13:30 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist A400, 20 mph Wet road
13 Aug 2024 15:20 Serious 1 person: 1 cyclist A400, 20 mph Daylight
17 Jul 2024 10:05 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian A400, 20 mph Daylight
18 Jun 2024 08:35 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist B518, 30 mph Daylight
24 May 2024 09:00 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist B518, 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 A400 between Royal College St and LA Boundary, with 14,088 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 430 m (0.3 miles) from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A400 Royal College St to LA Boundary 14,088 estimated; counted 2023 4% -0% since 2015 430 m (0.3 miles)

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 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 925 residents in 464 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 age3240
Children under 1510%17%
Aged 65 and over6%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)30%61%
Owned outright13%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented21%17%
Private rented49%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work76%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)5%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)60%32%
Travel to work by car or van4%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram17%4%
By any public transport, including bus20%8%
On foot or by bicycle15%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)88%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more awayunder 1%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)68%34%
No qualifications7%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)83%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 4 to 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 News food and wine (retailers - other, NW5 1LJ) now 1 Major improvement necessary, was Awaiting inspection (rated 7 October 2026) found 12 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Carrots and Daikon (restaurant/cafe/canteen, NW5 1NR) is no longer listed; it was rated 3 Generally satisfactory found 11 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings The Queen of Sheba (restaurant/cafe/canteen, NW5 2EU) now 2 Improvement necessary, was Unknown (rated 29 September 2026) found 4 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings ENCORE SPACES (takeaway/sandwich shop, NW5 3EW) is no longer listed; it was rated Awaiting inspection found 31 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings News Food & Wine (retailers - other, NW5 1LJ) is no longer listed; it was rated 5 Very good found 31 October 2026

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Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers November 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • NW5 1BF: 12 addresses of 13 in the postcode
  • NW5 1NS: 1 address of 15 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Greenwood Place · Fortess Walk · Fortess Yard · Fortess Road · Fortess Grove · College Yard · Evangelist Road · Carker's Lane · Falkland Place · Highgate Road · Railey Mews · Lady Somerset Road

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What this page cannot tell you

  • 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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.