The area
The Area tab shows facts about the neighbourhood from official sources. Each line has a short reading. Blue is better, orange needs a look. Tap a line for the chart.
These figures are about the area, not the street or the people next door.
#Deprivation
From the English Indices of Deprivation 2025. It covers a neighbourhood of about 1,500 people. The bar shows where it sits among all neighbourhoods in England. Open "Seven parts of the index" to see income, jobs, health, education, crime, housing and living environment. The 2025 figures can't be compared with 2019. England only.
#Household income
The ONS estimate of average household income before tax, for a wider area of about 7,000 people (April 2022 to March 2023). We compare it with England and Wales and with the borough. There's also a figure after housing costs.
#Census
From the 2021 Census, for the small area around the postcode (about 130 households), compared with the borough:
- Who owns the homes: owned, social rent from the council or a housing association, private rent.
- Who lives here: ages, households, and how many moved in during the last year.
Ethnicity and religion are shown in a closed section, as published by the ONS, for reference only. They're never used in any score, flag, question or summary in this app.
#Flood risk
Flood risk comes from the Environment Agency's national assessment. We show two kinds: rivers and the sea, and surface water from heavy rain.
- High: more than a 3.3% chance a year.
- Medium: 1% to 3.3%.
- Low: 0.1% to 1%.
- Very low is not zero.
We read the risk at the home's exact address point when we can find it. A listing's map pin can be a few doors out, and surface water risk changes from street to street. You can add the door number and street in Records to place it exactly. Flood risk covers Greater London for now.
#Nearest stations
The three nearest stations, plus the nearest Underground or Elizabeth line station within a 30-minute walk. Walking times for the nearest station come from Apple Maps. The others are straight-line estimates. Stations come from the Department for Transport's NaPTAN list.
#Getting to your places
Add up to two places you go often, like work or family, in Where you stand. We show the door-to-door time from Apple Maps for the next weekday morning at 08:30, by public transport, on foot or by car. Your places stay on your phone.
#Schools
The Area tab shows the state schools nearby: primary schools within 2 km and secondary schools within 5 km. Tap Why for the list, with each school's type, distance and walking time.
- Schools come from the Department for Education's Get Information about Schools.
- Ofsted results are shown in the format Ofsted used at the time. Since November 2025, report cards grade each area and give no overall grade. Inspections from September 2024 had no overall grade either.
- Some councils publish the furthest distance offered last year, for example Wandsworth for 2025. Where they do, we compare it with this home's straight-line distance. Where they don't, ask the council.
The furthest distance offered changes every year. Living within it is no guarantee of a place. Distances are straight lines from the listing's map pin; walking times come from Apple Maps.
#Noise
Records shows modelled road and rail noise from Defra's noise maps (Round 4, modelled for 2022). The levels run from "Under 40 dB, below what the map shows" to "Very busy road level".
The figure is Lden, a 24-hour average that counts evening and night noise more. We compare it with the World Health Organization guideline from 2018: 53 dB for roads and 54 dB for rail. It's a model, not a measurement at the door, so listen for yourself at the viewing.
#Broadband
Records shows how many homes in the postcode can get gigabit-capable broadband, and how many homes in the council area have full fibre. Ofcom publishes gigabit coverage by postcode, but full fibre only by council area. The figures are from Ofcom's Connected Nations data, January 2026.
#Around the home
Records shows five lines under Around the home. Each has its source and date.
- Conservation area: the area's name, or "No". In a conservation area, changes to the outside of the home can need permission.
- Listed building: the grade and name, or "No". Listed buildings need consent for most changes.
- Other planning limits: an Article 4 direction or tree preservation, or "None recorded". An Article 4 direction means even small changes, like new windows, can need permission.
- On the street: a bus stop within 30 metres, with the distance, and a main road within 50 metres, with its name. These are measured from the listing's map pin, so they can be a few doors out.
- Area and council: whether the area is urban or rural, and the council. If the listing names a different area, we say so, for example "Listing says Clapham; the council is Lambeth". Council tax, schools and parking follow the council.
"Not published by the council" means we don't know, not that there's none. Ask the agent, or check the council's planning map.
Sources: planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG; Historic England for conservation areas and listed buildings), NaPTAN bus stops from the Department for Transport, OpenStreetMap for roads, and the ONS for urban or rural areas and place names.