West Barnes · SW20

Merton

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Price

£6,500/m²Pricier than 53% of LondonOn map

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Change
1 y −1.3%
Rent, All homes
£2,172 / month · Merton average
Rent change
1 yr +5.4% · 5 yr +34.9% (London +3.5% · +36.7%)
London rank
Faster rise than 90% of London boroughs

Recent sales in this area

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Short lets

14 per 1,000 homes · London 27

Homes for sale here

Any price · any size · add your budget and bedrooms

Sold prices in SW20: 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.

How this is worked out

Too few matched sales in this neighbourhood; shown for West Barnes · KT3 from 82 matched sales.

Price sample: 13 matched sales support this number at MSOA level; 0 of 13 sales had no usable floor area and are excluded.

Compared with England: Not published: nationwide price coverage is incomplete.

Based on 13 sales · 2026-08 · release src-hmlr-pp-category-a-2026-08-england

Recent sales: standard sales from the last 18 months, nearest first.

ONS Price Index of Private Rents: Source: Office for National Statistics, Price Index of Private Rents. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Borough-wide: every neighbourhood in a borough reads the borough's rents.

Average (mean) monthly rent of new and existing tenancies; change is from the ONS index, which adjusts for the mix of homes let.

Official statistics in development: ONS may revise recent months.

No City of London figures are published.

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.

Getting around

On map
Cycle lanes ≤ 1 km
0 km protected
Pin a place
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.

Safety

25.6 / 1,000 · London 124.1On map
Trend
Stable over 11 months
Road casualties ≤ 500 m
8 in 5 years · 1 child · 3 serious or fatal · On map
Who was hurt
2 pedestrians · 6 cyclists
Per year
0 · 1 · 2 · 3 · 2 (2021–2025)
Period
12 months to Aug 2026
Sources

Crime is counted where it happens, so busy shopping and night-life streets score high.

Rates are per 1,000 residents over 12 months; places with few residents and many visitors read high.

Police.uk open data: the police forces of England and Wales. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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).

How this is worked out

Schools

8 within 1.5 km
Nurseries ≤ 1 km
4 well rated: Eveline Day Nursery Schools Limited (The) 214 m · Little Forest Folk Morden 280 m
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.

Local places

On map
Food hygiene 4–5
90% (9 of 10)
All places
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.

Green & quiet

On map
Homes over 55 dB
35.9% · London 44%
Road noise
Median 53.3 dB (99.3% of homes mapped) · 10.7% over 65 dB · no rail
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.

Noise: modelled whole-day average (Lden) at 290 recorded homes, road or rail; no aircraft noise. London: 44% of homes over 55 dB (Defra Round 4).

Modelled annual averages at 4 m above ground on a 10 m grid, not measurements.

Road and rail levels under 40 dB Lden are not mapped; each airport map stops at its own threshold (about 45-50 dB).

Aircraft levels show 2021 operations, when Covid restrictions cut flights sharply; busier years are louder.

Each home is read at its OS Open UPRN point, which may sit at the building centre.

Homes under 40 dB Lden are not mapped; the road median covers mapped homes only.

Defra strategic noise mapping Round 4: road and rail (2022) and airports (2021 operations). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Health

Cool nights
Summer nights
16.4 °C · cooler than 85% of London (2011)
GP
2 within 1 km · 1,684 patients per GP · nearest 530 m
Air NO₂ / PM2.5
20.3 / 9 µg/m³ · cleaner than 64% of London
Sources

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

Mostly terraces and semisOn map
Planning
32 applications in 2 years (London median 18)

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Sources

Shares of this neighbourhood's households, 2021 Census; the tick on each row is London. Neutral context, never rated.

ONS Census 2021 tables TS003, TS004, TS007A, TS012, TS013, TS015, TS021, TS022, TS028, TS030, TS031, TS044, TS054, TS063, TS066, TS067 via Nomis; country of birth (190 categories) and main language (26) via the ONS API. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

ONS mid-2024 Lower layer Super Output Area population estimates (revised November 2025). Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

People

Census 2021
  • 1,717 people (2024)
  • 4,356 people / km² · 75% of London's density
  • 666 households
Sources

Shares of this neighbourhood's residents and households, 2021 Census; the tick on each row is London. Neutral context, never rated.

People per km²: mid-2024 population estimate over the area's land.

ONS Census 2021 tables TS003, TS004, TS007A, TS012, TS013, TS015, TS021, TS022, TS028, TS030, TS031, TS044, TS054, TS063, TS066, TS067 via Nomis; country of birth (190 categories) and main language (26) via the ONS API. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

ONS mid-2024 Lower layer Super Output Area population estimates (revised November 2025). Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Deprivation is the official Index of Multiple Deprivation for the area, not its people.

Living costs

Band D £2,147Merton 2026-27
Council tax 2026-27
Band D £2,147 · A £1,431 … H £4,294
Band D
£2,146.76 = Merton £1,636.25 + GLA £510.51
Driving
Inside ULEZ · outside the Congestion Charge
Renting, Merton average
1 bed £1,639 · 2 bed £2,024 · 3 bed £2,407 · 4+ bed £3,267
Councillors, MP and area codes
Sources

Councillor data from Democracy Club (democracyclub.org.uk), CC BY 4.0.

Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026.

MP data from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.

Source: Office for National Statistics, Price Index of Private Rents. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.