Merton Park, SW19: house prices, crime and schools
Merton
Homes here sell for a typical £8,000 per m², down 2.7% in a year. 15 schools within 1.5 km. Wimbledon station is a 8-minute walk.
Green and well-rated food places.
Is Merton Park a good place to live?
Safer than 89% of London's neighbourhoods, prices down 2.7% in a year, 15 schools within 1.5 km (3 Outstanding), and a 8-minute walk to Wimbledon.
- Crime
- 31.1 crimes per 1,000 residents a yearsafer than 89% of London's neighbourhoods
- Prices
- £8,000 per m², down 2.7% in a yearpricier than 75% of London's neighbourhoods
- Schools
- 15 schools within 1.5 km, 3 Outstandingprimaries nearby stronger than in 87% of London's neighbourhoods
- Green space
- Nature reserve 5 min walkMerton Park Green Walks · greener than 99% of London's neighbourhoods
- Commute
- 8 min walk to a stationWimbledon, zone 3 · a shorter walk than 73% of London's neighbourhoods
Ranks among London's neighbourhoods. Crime: police.uk, 12 months to August 2026. Prices: HM Land Registry to August 2026, area price bands, never a home's value. Schools: DfE GIAS, Ofsted. Nature reserves: Natural England. Stations: walks along OpenStreetMap paths. Powered by TfL Open Data. How this is worked out
Loading prices…
- Change
- 1 y −2.7%
Recent sales in this area
Loading sales…
Short lets
19 per 1,000 homes · London 27
Homes for sale here
Any price · any size · add your budget and bedrooms
Sold prices in SW19: Rightmove
A postcode district is wider than the area. Close Knit doesn't host listings.
Sources
Price per square metre. Rolling 12-month median achieved price per square metre of standard market sales (Price Paid category A), using each home's EPC floor area.
HM Land Registry Price Paid + EPC · 2026-08
Areas with fewer than 20 qualifying sales in the 12 months fall back to their MSOA, then borough.
Excludes repossessions, buy-to-let and company sales (category B) and 'other' property types.
Sales without an EPC floor area, under £20,000, or outside 15–1,000 m² or £500–£40,000/m² are excluded.
Land Registry registers sales with a lag of up to a few months, so the latest window is still filling.
Outside London, sales are placed in their postcode's area (ONSPD) and linked to EPC floor areas by address; before 2023 they show one value a year. London's figures come from its address-level build.
Too few matched sales in this neighbourhood; shown for Merton Park · SW19 from 55 matched sales.
Price sample: 18 matched sales support this number at MSOA level; 0 of 18 sales had no usable floor area and are excluded.
Compared with England: Not published: nationwide price coverage is incomplete.
Based on 18 sales · 2026-08 · release src-hmlr-pp-category-a-2026-08-england
Recent sales: standard sales from the last 18 months, nearest first.
Inside Airbnb, insideairbnb.com, CC BY 4.0.
Airbnb moves each listing's point by up to about 150 m, so a listing near a boundary can count in the next area.
Airbnb only: other platforms and agents' short lets are not counted.
A snapshot of listings on one day; a listing is not a night let, and some are rarely booked.
Homes are Census 2021 households, so empty homes are not in the count.
- Typical walk from homes
- 8 min to a station · shorter than 73% of London
- Cycle lanes ≤ 1 km
- 0.2 km lanes · more than 42% of London
Sources
Walk to a station: the typical walk from the area's homes to the nearest rail, tube, DLR or tram station is timed along mapped OpenStreetMap paths at 4.8 km/h; each station row is a straight-line estimate stretched by a 1.3 routing detour, so it reads 'about'. Lifts, stairs, crossings and waiting are not timed. © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Powered by TfL Open Data.
Loading…
Sources
Crime is counted where it happens, so busy shopping and night-life streets score high.
Road casualties: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19), OGL v3.0. Many slight injuries are never reported to the police.
Recorded crime. Police-recorded offences in the 12 months to the selected month, per 1,000 residents (every police force in England). Excludes anti-social behaviour and British Transport Police.
Police.uk open data · 2026-08
Rolling 12 months: each month shows offences recorded in the year to that month.
Published crime coordinates are deliberately anonymised and never identify a building.
British Transport Police records are excluded.
Anti-social behaviour is excluded from the rate (police.uk lists it separately).
Population denominator: ONS mid-2024 LSOA estimates; borough/MSOA rates use summed counts and populations.
City of London and West End rates use resident population; daytime footfall is far higher.
police.uk places each crime at an anonymous snap point; an LSOA with fewer than 20 offences in 12 months and under a tenth of the crimes its MSOA rate predicts shows the MSOA rate instead (marked fallback).
Percentiles compare each area with the others of its region.
No figure where the police force did not publish every month of the 12 (latest window: Greater Manchester, Northumbria, Gloucestershire).
Schools
Best nearby: top 13% of LondonLoading schools…
Sources
State schools within 1.5 km, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Not a catchment: being close does not guarantee a place.
Top 10%: the school is in the top tenth of London's schools on its latest published results and rated Good or better.
Older Ofsted grades and the new report cards are not comparable; each badge says which it is.
Kids, each ranked against London's areas: nurseries and pre-schools within 1 km rated well by Ofsted (Good or Outstanding, or a report card with no area below Expected standard; childminders are not included), Ofsted Early Years management information, Open Government Licence v3.0. Road safety: pedestrians and cyclists hurt within 500 m in police-reported collisions over five years, DfT road safety data (STATS19), Open Government Licence v3.0. Cycle lanes: km of protected track and TfL Cycleway within 1 km, TfL Cycling Infrastructure Database (surveyed 2017–19) and Cycleways, Powered by TfL Open Data.
- Food hygiene 4–5
- 100% (22 of 22) · above 95% of London
- Bars, pubs and clubs
- 1 place · more than 53% of London
- Playgrounds, nurseries, libraries
- 3 min walk in this area
Sources
Shops, pubs, cafés, pharmacies and GP surgeries mapped in OpenStreetMap. Volunteers keep it up to date, so a new or closed place may be missing.
Food hygiene: cafés, restaurants, takeaways and pubs within 800 m with a published rating; exempt places and those awaiting inspection are left out. Food Standards Agency, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Flood (highest band)
- rivers and sea: very low · surface water: high
Sources
Flood: shares of the area's land by Environment Agency band, not of its buildings. Highest: the highest band covering at least 1% of the land.
Environment Agency: these bands show the likelihood of flooding for an area, not for a specific property. Check one address.
Bands are modelled chances of flooding in a year, not a record of past floods.
Area figures describe the land in the area, not each building in it.
A home is read at its OS Open UPRN point, which may sit at the building centre.
Places outside every mapped band count as very low. Groundwater and sewer flooding are not included.
Rivers, lakes and reservoirs (OpenStreetMap) are left out of an area's land.
Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea and Risk of Flooding from Surface Water (NaFRA2). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right. Open water: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
Health
16.5 °C nightsGP 386 m- Summer nights
- 16.5 °C · cooler than 77% of London (2011)
- GP
- 2 within 1 km · 1,892 patients per GP · nearest 390 m
- Air NO₂ / PM2.5
- 20.9 / 9.1 µg/m³ · cleaner than 54% of London
Sources
- London Atmospheric Emissions Inventory 2022, Greater London Authority and Transport for London. · London Datastore terms (use for any purpose); confirm OGL v3.0 with the GLA
- London's Urban Heat Island, average summer (2011), Greater London Authority. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. · OGL-3.0
- Patients Registered at a GP Practice and General Practice Workforce, NHS England. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence. · OGL-3.0
Air pollution is modelled by the GLA (London Atmospheric Emissions Inventory) for one year on a 20 m grid and averaged over the area's homes; it is not a measurement at any one address.
Summer heat is the GLA's modelled mean midnight air temperature, May to September 2011, on a 250 m grid, averaged over the area's homes: it shows which places stay warmer at night, not a forecast or an indoor temperature.
GP access counts the practices whose surgery postcode is within 1 km of a neighbourhood's centre (for an MSOA or borough, inside it): registered patients per full-time-equivalent GP, trainees and locums excluded. People can register with a practice further away; practices outside England are not counted.
Homes
Loading…
- Planning
- 16 applications in 2 years (London median 18)
Loading HMOs…
Sources
Shares of this area's households, Census; the tick on each row is London. Neutral context, never rated.
People
Census 2021Loading…
Sources
Shares of this area's residents and households, Census; the tick on each row is London. Neutral context, never rated.
Deprivation is the official Index of Multiple Deprivation for the area, not its people.
Living costs
Loading council tax…
Questions people ask about Merton Park
Is Merton Park safe?
Police recorded about 31.1 crimes for every 1,000 residents in the 12 months to August 2026; safer than 89% of London's neighbourhoods. Figures run high in busy centres where few people live, so visit at different times of day.
How much do homes cost in Merton Park?
Homes sold for a typical £8,000 per m² in the year to August 2026, down 2.7% in a year; pricier than 75% of London's neighbourhoods. These are area price bands from recorded sales, never a home's value.
Which schools are near Merton Park?
15 schools within 1.5 km, 3 Outstanding; primaries nearby stronger than in 87% of London's neighbourhoods. Living nearby doesn't guarantee a place, so check each school's admissions rules.
How far is Merton Park from a station?
A 8-minute walk to Wimbledon; a shorter walk than 73% of London's neighbourhoods. Walks are timed along mapped paths, not in a straight line.
How green is Merton Park?
Nature reserve 5 min walk to Merton Park Green Walks; greener than 99% of London's neighbourhoods.