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On Holloway Road, in Lower Holloway
What it's like at N7 9FU: every home that has sold on Holloway 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.
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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.
3 homes on the street extended (energy certificates). 18 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 Holloway 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.
109 of the 504 homes on the street are owned by companies (2 overseas).
| Apartment 3, 321, Holloway RoadFlat · company-owned | Jul 2014 | £410,000 | 71 m² | £5,775/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apartment 19, 321, Holloway RoadFlat | Nov 2015 | £580,000 | 71 m² | £8,169/m² | 1 |
| Apartment 5, 321, Holloway RoadFlat | Nov 2015 | £500,000 | 70 m² | £7,143/m² | 1 |
| Apartment 22, 321, Holloway RoadFlat | Oct 2015 | £750,000 | 95 m² | £7,895/m² | 1 |
| Apartment 6, 321, Holloway RoadFlat | Nov 2015 | £405,000 | 55 m² | £7,364/m² | 1 |
| Apartment 16, 321, Holloway RoadFlat | Dec 2015 | £510,000 | 70 m² | £7,286/m² | 1 |
| Apartment 4, 321, Holloway RoadFlat | Dec 2024 | £467,000 | 50 m² | £9,340/m² | 2 |
| Apartment 10, 321, Holloway RoadFlat | Nov 2015 | £495,000 | 70 m² | £7,071/m² | 1 |
| Apartment 15, 321, Holloway RoadFlat | Jul 2024 | £455,000 | 50 m² | £9,100/m² | 2 |
| Apartment 17, 321, Holloway RoadFlat | Nov 2015 | £550,000 | 81 m² | £6,790/m² | 1 |
| Apartment 25, 321, Holloway RoadFlat | Nov 2015 | £599,950 | 73 m² | £8,218/m² | 1 |
| Apartment 9, 321, Holloway RoadFlat · company-owned | Nov 2015 | £400,000 | 73 m² | £5,479/m² | 1 |
| Apartment 12, 321, Holloway RoadFlat | Dec 2019 | £442,000 | 55 m² | £8,036/m² | 2 |
| Apartment 18, 321, Holloway RoadFlat · company-owned | Nov 2015 | £580,000 | 73 m² | £7,945/m² | 1 |
| Apartment 11, 321, Holloway RoadFlat | Feb 2016 | £196,000 | 66 m² | £2,970/m² | 1 |
| Apartment 13, 321, Holloway RoadFlat | Nov 2015 | £405,000 | 50 m² | £8,100/m² | 1 |
| Apartment 8, 321, Holloway RoadFlat | Nov 2015 | £530,000 | 71 m² | £7,465/m² | 1 |
| Apartment 20, 321, Holloway RoadFlat | Dec 2015 | £640,000 | 90 m² | £7,111/m² | 1 |
| Apartment 7, 321, Holloway RoadFlat | Nov 2015 | £395,000 | 52 m² | £7,596/m² | 1 |
| Apartment 24, 321, Holloway RoadFlat · company-owned | Nov 2015 | £780,000 | 88 m² | £8,864/m² | 1 |
| Apartment 23, 321, Holloway RoadFlat | Nov 2015 | £620,000 | 73 m² | £8,493/m² | 1 |
| Apartment 21, 321, Holloway RoadFlat | Jun 2016 | £775,000 | 86 m² | £9,012/m² | 2 |
| Apartment 14, 321, Holloway RoadFlat | Nov 2015 | £565,000 | 71 m² | £7,958/m² | 1 |
| Ramsay Scout Centre, 319, Holloway RoadOther · company-owned | May 2019 | £191,500 | – | – | 1 |
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: 57% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Holloway Road Underground station, a few minutes' walk (150 m). The nearest rail station is Drayton Park, 650 m away, with 729k journeys a year.
The nearest bus stop is Holloway Road Underground Station, 150 m away, with a bus about every 3 minutes on weekdays (route Piccadilly); 354 departures an hour from the 13 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 15% of workers commuted by train or Tube.
Central London is 5 km away as the crow flies.
73% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, a few minutes' walk (400 m); 63% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is St Mary Magdalene Academy (0.5 km), with 7 rated strongly by Ofsted within 2 km.
The nearest secondary is St Mary Magdalene Academy, 750 m away; Attainment 8: 59.3 · 33% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Highbury Fields School (0.8 km) and Parliament Hill School (2.6 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: The Henrietta Barnett School (6.2 km) and St Michael's Catholic Grammar School (8.3 km).
Few families with young children: only 12% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Sainsbury's, 50 m away; N7 Food & Wine (100 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Sobell Medical Centre (50 m), with Vyne the closest pharmacy (300 m).
For a haircut, Studio N7 is 50 m away.
The nearest full A&E is The Whittington Hospital, 2.4 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 72% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 68% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 12 weeks).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 51 restaurants and cafés and 5 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Cafe Euro is the closest café or restaurant (50 m), and Islington Sports Bar & Grill the nearest pub (50 m).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 194 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
Much of it is protected: 33% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (St Mary Magdalene, Hillmarton).
There are 10 listed buildings.
67 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.
| Building | Grade | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Holloway Road Station (London Transport) | II | 160 m |
Grade I and II* are the most important few per cent. Listing means consent is needed for most changes, inside and out. Contains Historic England data © Historic England 2026 (via planning.data.gov.uk), OGL.
Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
Islington South and Finsbury constituency: Emily Thornberry MP (Labour), since May 2005. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 15,455 (36.1%), turnout 58%. Vote shares: Labour 54%, Green Party 18%, Liberal Democrat 10%, Conservative 8%.
76 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 N7 9FU →
Homes are mostly flats (93%).
The typical home here was built in 1973-1982.
The nearest park is Biddestone Park, 50 m away; for exercise, F45 Holloway (100 m).
A swim is a short trip away: Hampstead Heath (Mens Pond), 3.3 km away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
The air is city air: background nitrogen dioxide is 22.6 µg/m³, well above the WHO guideline of 10.
For holidays, London City is 12 km away, and London Heathrow, with far more destinations, 25 km.
Many neighbours rent: 37% of households rent privately and 34% socially.
It's young: 31% of residents are aged 15–29.
It's highly educated: 63% of adults have a degree.
The nearest university is London Metropolitan University, 400 m away (TEF Silver).
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.
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
On this street: 1 of 326 homes with certificates have solar panels, 21 a heat pump, and 137 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.1% | 0.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 1.4% | 1.0% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 56.7% | 66.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 21.0% | 12.6% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 20.8% | 19.3% | 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.
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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 504 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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