Cockfosters & Hadley Wood

Enfield · London · population 7,428 · 4 LSOAs

Approximate neighbourhood (MSOA) boundary. © OpenStreetMap contributors; boundary © ONS / Crown copyright.

71Area Score / 100 ?
  • #1,965 of 6,856 in England
  • #211 of 1,002 in London
  • #7 of 36 in Enfield
  • Less deprived (top 30%)
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People living here Census 2021

Residents7,358
Median age (est.)44
Density830per km²
No qualifications16%
Degree or above47%
No car or van18%

Age

0–14 17%15–24 9%25–44 25%45–64 26%65+ 23%

Tenure

Own outright: 37%Mortgage/shared: 35%Social rent: 9%Private rent: 19%
Own outright 37%Mortgage/shared 35%Social rent 9%Private rent 19%

Households

One person: 27%Couple, no children: 12%Couple with children: 32%Lone parent: 10%Other: 20%
One person 27%Couple, no children 12%Couple with children 32%Lone parent 10%Other 20%

Work (top occupations)

Professional 28% · Managers & directors 25% · Associate professional 14%

All occupation groups
Professional28%
Managers & directors25%
Associate professional14%
Administrative11%
Caring & leisure6%
Skilled trades5%
Sales & customer service5%
Elementary4%
Process & plant3%

Ethnic group

White: 64%Asian: 15%Black: 5%Mixed: 6%Other: 11%
White 64%Asian 15%Black 5%Mixed 6%Other 11%

Religion & identity

Christian 45% · No religion 19% · Muslim 10%

Born outside the UK: 33%

Census 2021 (ONS), Crown copyright, OGL v3.0. Shares are of each question's own respondents (e.g. education is % of residents aged 16+). Figures date from March 2021 and change slowly between censuses.

In summary

Cockfosters & Hadley Wood is in the less-deprived top third of England, ranked #1,965 of 6,856 neighbourhoods nationally, and #7 of 36 in Enfield. It is highly uneven across the seven themes — strong on Health (93) but weak on Housing & access (24). Typical homes here sold for about £1,050,000 over the past year, down 13% across five years (from 63 sales) — roughly 2.2× the wider Enfield median of £482,000. It pairs low deprivation with well-above-average prices, so on our affordability-adjusted measure it lands at #6,779 of 6,851 — you pay for the postcode here. Typical household take-home income is around £54,797 a year, among England's highest. Recorded crime ran at 68 incidents per 1,000 residents over the past year, below the England rate of 83.

Themed scores ?

Each 0–100, higher = less deprived on that theme. National rank shown.

Income 65 · #2,377
Employment 73 · #1,822
Education 86 · #992
Health 93 · #478
Crime 59 · #2,809
Housing & access 24 · #5,208
Living environment 46 · #3,727

House prices ?

£1,050,000median (12m) · +16.8% yr · n=63
TypeMedian (12m)Sales1yr5yr
All homes£1,050,00063+16.8%-13.2%
Detached£1,977,50019+8.0%+10.2%
Semi-detached£930,00018-21.6%-23.0%
Terraced£1,690,0006+196.5%
Flat£517,50020+8.9%-4.2%
This area£1,050,000
Enfield£482,000
London£525,512
England£300,000
Annual median price, all homes. Small samples can be volatile.

Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Household income

Net household income (a year)£54,797±£7,844 · #484 of 6,856
After housing costs (equivalised)£50,173
Price-to-income ?19.2×typical home ÷ net income — more stretched than the England figure of 7.5×

Model-based ONS estimates (FYE 2023) with 95% confidence intervals — a guide to the typical household, not a measurement. How income estimates work →

Affordability-adjusted Score ?

1Affordability-adjusted Score / 100
Best-value areas in England →

Recorded crime ?

68 crimes per 1,000 residents · 12 months · 503 offences
Enfield90
London102
England83

Rank #3,378 of 6,427 areas with published data (1 = lowest recorded rate).

Category (12 months)Recorded
Violence & sexual offences143
Theft112
Burglary64
Vehicle crime90
Criminal damage & arson25
Public order & weapons36
Drugs10
Robbery13
Other10

Anti-social behaviour, recorded separately: 124 incidents.

Recorded incidents, not convictions. Crimes are counted where they happen while residents are counted where they live, so busy town-centre, retail and nightlife areas show high per-resident rates because visitors bring incidents with them. Street-level crime data © Crown copyright, data.police.uk, OGL v3.0. More on crime figures →

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