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On The Ridgeway, in Chase Farm & The Ridgeway
What it's like at EN2 8PB: every home that has sold on The Ridgeway since 1995 and who owns them, what's happening down the road, crime on the street, a day in the life, history on the doorstep and what's changing nearby. Moving, buying, selling, improving or investing? Pick a lens above for what matters to you.
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Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
ORR, DfE, police.uk, OS Terrain 50 and Open Greenspace, Forestry Commission, Defra noise maps (England), Xoserve. Every distance: Moving; radon, ground and flood checks: Buying.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates). 3 homes have a new energy certificate in the last 6 months and no sale since: often a sign of a sale or let coming.
Sales and extensions on The Ridgeway; planning applications within 500 m (Planning London Datahub); new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
20 of the 254 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 25, The RidgewayOther · company-owned | Jun 2020 | £991,000 | 284 m² | £3,489/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27a, The RidgewayFlat | Jan 2021 | £320,000 | 49 m² | £6,531/m² | 6 |
| 27b, The RidgewayFlat | Jul 2004 | £154,000 | 48 m² | £3,208/m² | 3 |
| 27c, The RidgewayFlat | May 2002 | £80,000 | 37 m² | £2,162/m² | 2 |
| 27d, The RidgewayFlat | Sept 2006 | £133,000 | 35 m² | £3,800/m² | 3 |
| 27e, The RidgewayFlat | Nov 1996 | £54,995 | 65 m² | £846/m² | 1 |
| Flat 2, 29, The RidgewayFlat | Sept 2007 | £150,000 | 79 m² | £1,899/m² | 2 |
| Flat 3, 29, The RidgewayFlat | Apr 2007 | £220,000 | 58 m² | £3,793/m² | 2 |
| Flat 4, 29, The RidgewayFlat | Jul 2010 | £150,000 | 42 m² | £3,571/m² | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 45% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Enfield Chase, about a 5-minute walk (600 m), with 1.2m journeys a year; its busiest route is to Finsbury Park.
The nearest bus stop is Culloden Road, 50 m away, with a bus about every 6 minutes on weekdays (routes 313, 356); 101 departures an hour from the 7 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 11% of workers commuted by train or Tube.
Central London is 17 km away as the crow flies.
The nearest primary school is Chase Side Primary School, about a 10-minute walk (650 m); 60% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Enfield County School for Girls, 1.0 km away; Attainment 8: 52 · 13.7% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Ashmole Academy (3.8 km) and East Barnet School (4.2 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: The Latymer School (3.9 km) and St Michael's Catholic Grammar School (7.4 km).
The nearest supermarket is Waitrose, 500 m away; Krishnaas (500 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is White Lodge Medical Practice (750 m), with Whitakers Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (750 m).
For a haircut, 77 The Hill is 450 m away.
The nearest full A&E is North Middlesex University Hospital, 5.2 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 70% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 63% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 14 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 8 restaurants and cafés, 3 pubs and bars.
Papa John's is the closest café or restaurant (450 m), and Enfield Lawn Tennis Club the nearest pub (550 m).
Crime is around the national middle: about 92 per 1,000 residents a year.
Homes are mostly flats (57%).
The typical home here was built in 1973-1982.
The nearest park is Library Green, 950 m away; for exercise, énergie Fitness (750 m).
A swim is a short trip away: Hampstead Heath (Ladies Pond), 11 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 12.6 µg/m³).
For holidays, London City is 20 km away, and London Luton, with far more destinations, 30 km.
22 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
Enfield North constituency: Feryal Clark MP (Labour), since December 2019. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 12,736 (29.3%), turnout 55%. Vote shares: Labour 49%, Conservative 20%, Reform UK 12%, Green Party 9%.
31 new homes, planning permissions and school changes on record within 2 km, plus energy projects, road works, storm overflows and major infrastructure. Everything changing near EN2 8PB →
Most households own their home, 27% rent privately.
It's highly educated: 46% of adults have a degree.
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.
On this street: 1 of 156 homes with certificates have solar panels, 2 a heat pump, and 28 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.5% | 0.4% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.6% | 0.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 82.2% | 84.8% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 17.0% | 12.3% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.1% | 2.3% | 2.1% |
From each home's latest energy certificate, so panels or heat pumps fitted since aren't counted and the shares are lower than today's real figures. Compare areas in the data explorer.
Nearest: The Serpentine - Hyde Park · about 48 min
Nearest: Epping Ongar Railway · about 36 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
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police.uk, 2025-09 to 2026-08. Crimes are mapped to the nearest of a set of anonymised points and labelled with that point's street, so busy roads and junctions collect crimes from nearby; the street has about 254 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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