Finding postcode…
These only choose where you start. Every page and every lens is still one tap away.
Sign in to keep them on every device →Finding postcode…
On Kingston Road, in Ilford South West
What it's like at IG1 1PA: every home that has sold on Kingston Road 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.
Street View and the aerial view come from Google, which receives your IP address and may set cookies once you choose them. We'll remember your choice on this device.
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.
13 homes on the street extended (energy certificates). 10 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 Kingston Road; 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.
21 of the 229 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 1, Kingston RoadTerraced · company-owned | Oct 2001 | £132,000 | 140 m² | £943/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3, Kingston RoadTerraced | Apr 2001 | £106,000 | 96 m² | £1,104/m² | 1 |
| 4, Kingston RoadTerraced | Aug 1998 | £88,000 | 124 m² | £710/m² | 1 |
| 7, Kingston RoadTerraced · company-owned | Mar 2026 | £420,000 | 93 m² | £4,516/m² | 1 |
| 8, Kingston RoadTerraced | Jun 2009 | £250,000 | 116 m² | £2,155/m² | 3 |
| 9, Kingston RoadTerraced | Dec 2014 | £250,000 | 92 m² | £2,717/m² | 2 |
| 10, Kingston RoadTerraced | Jul 2024 | £510,420 | 101 m² | £5,054/m² | 1 |
| 11, Kingston RoadTerraced | May 2003 | £195,000 | 99 m² | £1,970/m² | 2 |
| 13, Kingston RoadTerraced | Jan 2026 | £399,000 | 103 m² | £3,874/m² | 4 |
| 15, Kingston RoadTerraced | Oct 2024 | £495,000 | 116 m² | £4,267/m² | 1 |
| 19, Kingston RoadTerraced | Jul 2000 | £113,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 20, Kingston RoadTerraced | Jan 2021 | £391,000 | 103 m² | £3,796/m² | 1 |
| 21, Kingston RoadTerraced | Jul 2017 | £325,000 | 120 m² | £2,708/m² | 1 |
| 24, Kingston RoadTerraced | Nov 1997 | £65,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 29, Kingston RoadTerraced | Dec 2025 | £460,000 | 108 m² | £4,259/m² | 1 |
| 30, Kingston RoadTerraced | Jan 2008 | £249,950 | 132 m² | £1,894/m² | 5 |
| 31, Kingston RoadTerraced | Jan 2007 | £239,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 32, Kingston RoadTerraced | Oct 2007 | £220,000 | 97 m² | £2,268/m² | 1 |
| 33, Kingston RoadTerraced | Oct 2006 | £237,000 | 99 m² | £2,394/m² | 4 |
| 34, Kingston RoadTerraced | Nov 2003 | £200,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 35, Kingston RoadTerraced | Aug 2001 | £125,000 | 96 m² | £1,302/m² | 1 |
The nearest station is Ilford, about a 10-minute walk (850 m), with 10.9m journeys a year; its busiest route is to Stratford (London).
The nearest bus stop is Kingston Road, 100 m away, with a bus about every 4 minutes on weekdays (routes EL1, 169); 68 departures an hour from the 4 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 24% of workers commuted by train or Tube.
Plenty of jobs are close by: somewhere with 5,000 or more jobs (a town centre, business park or big hospital) is about 10 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
Central London is 15 km away as the crow flies.
47% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is Cleveland Road Primary School, a few minutes' walk (250 m); 87% met the expected standard.
The nearest secondary is Loxford School, 900 m away; Attainment 8: 54.4 · 17.7% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Barking Abbey School, A Specialist Sports and Humanities College (2.4 km) and Valentines High School (2.4 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Ilford County High School (4.4 km) and Woodford County High School (7.1 km).
It's a family area: 25% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Quality Foods, 250 m away, with Nawal closer still (50 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Mathukia'S Surgery (300 m), with Woodlands Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (350 m).
For a haircut, Ilford Lane Barber is 150 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Newham University Hospital, 4.2 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 61% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 64% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 13 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 32 restaurants and cafés, 1 pubs and bars.
Naan Staap is the closest café or restaurant (50 m), and The Papermakers Arms Public House the nearest pub (700 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (26 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 140 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
Homes are mostly flats (51%).
The typical home here was built in 1973-1982.
It's growing: about 119 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Uphall Recreation Ground, 400 m away; for exercise, Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing (600 m).
53 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.
Ilford South constituency: Jas Athwal MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 6,894 (16.7%), turnout 51%. Vote shares: Labour 40%, Independent 23%, Conservative 15%, Green Party 8%.
55 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 IG1 1PA →
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The air is city air: background nitrogen dioxide is 19.4 µg/m³, well above the WHO guideline of 10.
For holidays, London City is 5.5 km away, and London Heathrow, with far more destinations, 37 km.
Many neighbours rent: 46% of households rent privately and 20% socially.
It's young: 21% of residents are aged 15–29.
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: 0 of 174 homes with certificates have solar panels, 1 a heat pump, and 1 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.3% | 0.4% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 0.2% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 60.4% | 89.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 32.2% | 8.6% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 7.1% | 1.2% | 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.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.
Nearest: The Serpentine - Hyde Park · about 41 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Redbridge since 2011.
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 229 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.