Merton

What is it like to live in Merton?

Homes sold for a typical £545,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 2,885 of the 3,503 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 2,078 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 378 of its 3,684 postcodes. It has at least 47 primary schools, 11 secondary schools and 5 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 South Merton, 1.2 km 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 Merton?

Homes in Merton sold for a typical £545,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 1,658 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £550,000 from 2,463 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £2,455,000 60 sales
• Semi-detached £800,000 177 sales
• Terraced £668,000 723 sales
• Flat or maisonette £391,000 698 sales

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

Across the whole SW19 district, Merton's main postcode district: a typical £590,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Merton: 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 Merton?

148 of the 3,684 postcodes now in use in Merton came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 15 of the 2,463 homes sold in Merton were newly built (Under 1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the SW19 district, 1%.

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 Merton?

Ofcom reports on 3,503 of the 3,684 postcodes in Merton. At 2,885 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 2 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 Merton at risk of flooding?

378 of the 3,684 postcodes in Merton 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 2,078 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 Merton?

The open schools at the postcodes in Merton (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 Merton?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Merton is South Merton Rail Station, 1.2 km away in a straight line.

• South Merton Rail Station Railway station 1.2 kmCycle
• Wimbledon Chase Rail Station Railway station 1.4 kmCycle
• Wimbledon Rail Station Railway station 1.5 kmCycle
• Morden Road Tram Stop Underground, metro or tram 250 mWalk
• South Wimbledon 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 Merton?

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

• Morden Hall Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report January 2026 · Phone 020 8540 0585 700 mWalk
• Merton Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report February 2026 · Phone 020 8545 9620 750 mWalk
• Wimbledon Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report July 2021, over 3 years old · Phone 020 8542 2827 800 mWalk
• Mitcham & Tooting Health Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2021, over 3 years old · Phone 020 8648 3234 900 mWalk
• Nelson Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report January 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 020 3826 0826 1.2 kmWalk

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

Is Merton safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 5,632 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Merton 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 183, theft from the person 143, robbery 135, bicycle theft 86, other crime 78, possession of weapons 25.

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 Merton?

Councils

Merton (3,669), Wandsworth (12), Lambeth (2) and 1 other

Parliamentary constituencies

Wimbledon (1,964), Mitcham and Morden (1,705), Putney (6) and 3 others

Police force area

Metropolitan Police

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.