Islington

What is it like to live in Islington?

Homes sold for a typical £638,750 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 3,938 of the 4,594 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 6,331 postcodes is on the Environment Agency's list of those with a home or business at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. It has at least 43 primary schools, 10 secondary schools and 1 all-through school at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Highbury & Islington, 600 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

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 Islington?

Homes in Islington sold for a typical £638,750 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 1,384 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £642,254 from 2,114 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £2,180,000 7 sales
• Semi-detached £2,200,000 24 sales
• Terraced £1,460,000 235 sales
• Flat or maisonette £566,375 1,118 sales

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

Across the whole N1 district, Islington's main postcode district: a typical £670,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Islington: 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 Islington?

376 of the 6,331 postcodes now in use in Islington came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 6 of the 2,114 homes sold in Islington were newly built (Under 1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the N1 district, 3%.

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 Islington?

Ofcom reports on 4,594 of the 6,331 postcodes in Islington. At 3,938 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

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 Islington at risk of flooding?

None of the 6,331 postcodes in Islington is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

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 Islington?

The open schools at the postcodes in Islington (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.

An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).

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

How far is the station from Islington?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Islington is Highbury & Islington Rail Station, 600 m away in a straight line.

• Highbury & Islington Rail Station Railway station 600 mWalk
• Highbury & Islington Rail Station Railway station 600 mWalk
• Caledonian Road & Barnsbury Rail Station Railway station 600 mWalk
• Highbury & Islington Underground Station Underground, metro or tram 650 mWalk
• Angel Underground Station Underground, metro or tram 1.0 kmWalk

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 Islington?

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

• Islington Central Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report February 2019, over 3 years old · Phone 020 7704 7522 350 mWalk
• Ritchie Street Group Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report May 2024 · Phone 020 7837 1663 750 mWalk
• Barnsbury Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report February 2023, over 3 years old · Phone 020 7700 9700 800 mWalk
• Medicus Select Care Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report December 2021, over 3 years old · Phone 020 3813 0611 800 mWalk
• River Place Health Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report April 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 020 7704 2832 850 mWalk

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

Is Islington safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 20,955 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Islington 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: burglary 777, robbery 672, criminal damage and arson 505, bicycle theft 469, other crime 191, possession of weapons 112.

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 Islington?

Councils

Islington (6,314) and City of London (17)

Parliamentary constituencies

Islington South and Finsbury (4,418), Islington North (1,896) and Cities of London and Westminster (17)

Police force areas

Metropolitan Police (6,314) and City of London (17)

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.