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Where to stay in London

Districts named
43
Close to the centre
10
Furthest out
Hornchurch, 24.3 km
Largest by population
Brent

London is set out here as 43 districts and neighbouring places, and 10 of them sit within 5 km of the centre. The closest is Soho. The list reaches 24.3 km out, as far as Hornchurch.

Within 5 km of the middle: Soho, Pimlico, Islington, Queenstown, Chelsea, Bayswater, Battersea and Holloway. These are the ones a stay can be walked out of.

Further out, between 10 and 24 km, lie Norbury, Roehampton, Tottenham Hale, Upper Norwood, Wimbledon and Leytonstone. What they give back for the distance is usually space, and sometimes price, although no price figures sit behind this page.

The largest by population is Brent, with about 329,100 residents.

Each place here is a populated area recorded below city level, attached to London when it falls within 25 km of the city centre. 43 of them qualified. The order is distance from the centre and nothing else.

This says where the districts are, not which one is better. It is not a list of administrative boundaries either: coverage below city level is uneven between countries, so there may be districts this page cannot name. No rent, noise or safety figures exist in this programme yet, and none are implied here.

Where to stay in London

DistrictFrom the centreDirectionResidents
Soho0.9 kmnorth west19,634
Pimlico2.3 kmsouth20,709
Islington3.5 kmnorth east319,143
Queenstown3.7 kmsouth west15,599
Chelsea3.8 kmsouth west60,000
Bayswater4.1 kmwest17,500
Battersea4.3 kmsouth west75,651
Holloway4.9 kmnorth41,329
Bethnal Green4.9 kmnorth east17,590
Brixton4.9 kmsouth66,300
Latchmere5.4 kmsouth west15,358
Peckham5.5 kmsouth east71,552
Notting Hill5.6 kmwest21,000
Limehouse6.5 kmeast15,986
Kilburn6.7 kmnorth west29,027
New Cross7.1 kmsouth east15,756
Canary Wharf7.3 kmeast73,390
Stamford Hill7.6 kmnorth east68,050
Bow7.8 kmeast27,720
Seven Sisters8.3 kmnorth east15,968
Putney8.3 kmsouth west77,140
Greenwich8.6 kmsouth east30,578
Blackwall8.6 kmeast19,461
Chiswick9.3 kmwest34,337
Furzedown9.4 kmsouth15,504
Tooting9.6 kmsouth16,239
Perry Vale9.8 kmsouth east15,618
Norbury10.2 kmsouth16,476
Roehampton10.3 kmsouth west16,132
Tottenham Hale10.5 kmnorth east15,064
Upper Norwood10.6 kmsouth16,082
Wimbledon11.2 kmsouth west68,187
Leytonstone11.4 kmnorth east54,696
Ealing Common11.7 kmwest15,945
South Norwood12.6 kmsouth16,518
Brent13.2 kmwest329,100
New Malden15.3 kmsouth west23,818
East Barnet15.6 kmnorth18,100
Wealdstone17.8 kmnorth west18,500
Becontree18.3 kmeast100,000
Ewell19.7 kmsouth west39,994
South Ruislip20.2 kmwest16,800
Hornchurch24.3 kmeast25,470

Questions

Which part of London is most central?

Soho sits closest to the centre of the 43 places named here, and 10 of them are within 5 km. The full distances are in the table, so the order can be checked rather than taken on trust.

Does this say which district is best?

No. It says where each one is and how big it is. Rent, noise and safety are what would decide better, and this programme has no measured source for any of them yet.

Are these all the districts of London?

Not necessarily. The places come from a global gazetteer whose coverage below city level differs from country to country, so this is what can be named with a source behind it rather than a complete list.

Related pages

Sources

  • GeoNames, neighbourhood-facts-verified (CC BY 4.0)