Camden

What is it like to live in Camden?

Homes sold for a typical £726,375 in the 12 months to September 2026, down 8.1% on the 12 months before. At 5,650 of the 6,458 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts no home or business at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 2 of its 8,268 postcodes. It has at least 54 primary schools, 12 secondary schools and 6 all-through schools at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Camden Road, 750 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

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Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in Camden?

Homes in Camden sold for a typical £726,375 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 1,338 sales, down 8.1% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

• Detached £5,012,500 14 sales
• Semi-detached £2,485,000 51 sales
• Terraced £1,576,000 157 sales
• Flat or maisonette £654,000 1,116 sales

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Across the whole NW1 district, Camden's main postcode district: a typical £700,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Camden: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

Are new homes being built in Camden?

319 of the 8,268 postcodes now in use in Camden came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 150 of the 2,228 homes sold in Camden were newly built (7%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the NW1 district, 7%.

The newest postcodes

A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.

New homes among the homes sold

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

What broadband can you get in Camden?

Ofcom reports on 6,458 of the 8,268 postcodes in Camden. At 5,650 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is Camden at risk of flooding?

2 of the 8,268 postcodes in Camden have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts none of the homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026.

Which schools are in Camden?

The open schools at the postcodes in Camden (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.

Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

How far is the station from Camden?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Camden is Camden Road Rail Station, 750 m away in a straight line.

• Camden Road Rail Station Railway station 750 mWalk
• Kentish Town West Rail Station Railway station 1.1 kmWalk
• London Euston Rail Station Railway station 1.2 kmCycle
• Camden Town Underground Station Underground, metro or tram 400 mWalk
• Mornington Crescent Underground Station Underground, metro or tram 500 mWalk

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in Camden?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Camden, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

• Ampthill & Regents Park Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 020 7383 7333 600 mWalk
• Primrose Hill Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report May 2024 · Phone 020 7722 0038 1.0 kmWalk
• Camden Health Improvement Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2022, over 3 years old · Phone 020 3182 4200 1.0 kmWalk
• Prince of Wales Group Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Inadequate CQC report April 2023, over 3 years old · Phone 020 7267 0067 1.2 kmWalk
• James Wigg Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2023 · Phone 020 7428 4555 1.2 kmWalk

Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

Is Camden safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 18,783 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Camden over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Also: vehicle crime 661, robbery 610, criminal damage and arson 445, bicycle theft 372, other crime 150, possession of weapons 79.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Source: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Camden?

Councils

Camden (8,129), Westminster (100), Islington (20) and 1 other

Parliamentary constituencies

Holborn and St Pancras (5,763), Hampstead and Highgate (2,366), Cities of London and Westminster (119) and 2 others

Police force areas

Metropolitan Police (8,249) and City of London (19)

Region

London

Country

England

Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?

Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.