Property Diligence

Allerton (L18): an area guide before you move

Allerton (L18) has a recorded-sale median of £320,000, alongside 8 open registered schools and 3 rail, metro or tram access nodes. The sections below set out the wider local picture before you move.

What the district facts say

Budget starting point

Median £320,000 from 598 completed sales.

The median is the clearest broad starting point for this district.

Daily-life picture

8 open schools. 85 bus and 3 rail, metro or tram nodes.

These are the district-level building blocks for everyday life.

District prices

L18 recorded 598 completed sales in the 24-month sample. The median was £320,000. The £414,178 average is higher because a small number of expensive sales can lift it.

Median recorded sale
£320,000
Average recorded sale
£414,178
Recorded sales
598 (24 months)
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. local 2025-2026 bulk snapshot. Retrieved 2026-10-01.
How this was counted

Postcode district. non-deleted recorded sales in preceding 24 months.

Crime and serious-crime share

Police.uk records 1,513 reports from 2025-07 to 2026-06. Violence and sexual offences, robbery, burglary and weapons-possession reports account for 590, or 39.0% of the total.

Reported crime, 12 months
1,513
Selected report-category share
590 (39.0%)
data.police.uk street-level crime custom download. 2025-07 to 2026-06; seven verified programme forces. Original download date not recorded.
How this was counted

Postcode district. Police.uk anonymised coordinates assigned to nearest Code-Point Open centroid; selected-category share is not an official severity rate.

Local-area deprivation context

IMD is a Government local-area scale from 1 to 10: 1 is the poorer end, while 10 is the more well-off end. L18 has a median of 8.0. 1.4% of mapped postcode units are in the poorer 1 to 3 band and 69.1% are in the more well-off 8 to 10 band.

Median IMD decile
8.0 / 10
Postcode units in deciles 1–3
1.4%
Postcode units in deciles 8–10
69.1%
MHCLG English Indices of Deprivation postcode download. 2025. Original download date not recorded.
How this was counted

Postcode district. distribution of official IMD25 postcode assignments; England only.

Schools

The register lists 8 open establishments in L18. It is a useful picture of the local school base, across the phases shown in the card below.

Registered school sites
8 (All-through: 1, Primary: 6, Secondary: 1)
DfE Get Information about Schools establishment register. 2026-08-02. Original download date not recorded.
How this was counted

Postcode district. open GIAS establishments grouped by registered postcode district.

Green space and outdoor sport

OS maps 34 green-space or outdoor-sport sites covering 116.48 hectares, including 6 public parks or gardens. This gives the district a substantial mapped outdoor offer.

Mapped OS green-space sites
34
Mapped site area
116.48 ha
Public parks or gardens
6
OS Open Greenspace. April 2026 programme-city tile manifest. Original download date not recorded.
How this was counted

Postcode district. OS Open Greenspace April 2026 site polygon geometric centroid assigned to nearest Code-Point Open postcode centroid.

Flood context

The source covers 605 postcode units. 63 have high-risk surrounding addresses and 90 have medium-risk surroundings.

Postcode units in source
605
Units with high-risk surroundings
63
Units with medium-risk surroundings
90
Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data. 2026-07-10. Original download date not recorded.
How this was counted

Postcode district. sum of Environment Agency postcode source counts by outward postcode; counts concern areas around addresses, not a named property.

Air quality

The 2024 modelled annual-mean NO₂ median is 11.1 µg/m³. 100.0% of mapped units exceed the WHO 10 µg/m³ guideline and 0.0% meet or exceed 40 µg/m³.

Median annual mean NO₂
11.1 µg/m³
Postcode units above WHO 10 µg/m³
100.0%
Postcode units at or above legal 40 µg/m³
0.0%
DEFRA Pollution Climate Mapping annual-mean NO2 grid. 2024. Original download date not recorded.
How this was counted

Postcode district. DEFRA PCM 2024 1 km modelled annual-mean NO2 looked up at each Code-Point Open postcode centroid; postcode-unit weighted district summary.

Transport access nodes

NaPTAN contains 85 active bus nodes and 3 rail, metro or tram nodes across L18. Together, they describe the district-wide public-transport network.

Active bus access nodes
85
Active rail, metro or tram nodes
3
NaPTAN. 2026-08-02. Original download date not recorded.
How this was counted

Postcode district. active NaPTAN access node assigned to nearest Code-Point Open centroid.

Broadband availability

The postcode-unit median maximum advertised download is 1,000 Mbit/s, with 100.0% full-fibre and 100.0% gigabit availability.

Median maximum advertised download
1,000 Mbit/s
Median full-fibre availability
100.0%
Median gigabit availability
100.0%
Ofcom Connected Nations. 2025. Original download date not recorded.
How this was counted

Postcode district. median across postcode units.

Road safety

DfT records 122 personal-injury collisions in 2022 to 24: 2 fatal, 20 serious and 100 slight.

Reported collisions, 2022–24 (raw count)
122
Fatal
2
Serious
20
Slight
100
DfT STATS19 Road Safety Data. 2022-2024 collision files. Original download date not recorded.
How this was counted

Postcode district. 2022–24 STATS19 collision assigned to nearest Code-Point Open centroid.

Sources and method

Related guides

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