Mapped: London's most and least affordable places to buy a home

Evening Standard · Niva Yadav · 2026-11-06 00:01 UTC

Interactive map shows the boroughs where house prices are most affordable relative to household income

An interactive map using data about earnings reveals the most affordable boroughs to buy a home in London.

The east London borough of Tower Hamlets takes the top spot, where the median-priced home of £455,200 costs just 4.91 times the average salary of households.

It is followed by Greenwich and Croydon, both south of the river, where the median home value is £451,900 and £430,100 respectively, both 5.26 times the average household salary.

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