Islington: local evidence before choosing a home
Three public reference positions, ten independent checks and the limitations you need before treating a map result as a housing shortlist.
By the notbad project · editorial review . Source dates are separate.
Explore Islington on the mapWhat these local examples show
Highbury & Islington station, Highbury Fields and Angel Central separate two supported-station catchments and three local surroundings. The fields reference has a lower daytime road average than the station reference but a longer approximate walk to the same rail approach. Angel Central instead points towards Angel and Barnard Park. The contrast concerns these coordinates, not every home near either centre.
This page covers the official Islington boundary (E09000019), not a single neighbourhood with the same name. Its three examples are illustrative catalog positions, not a representative sample of homes or a borough-wide verdict.
Mapped destinations in this boundary
The retained catalogs place 15 supported station records, 9 named green-space references of at least 2 hectares, 21 supported supermarket records, 2 shopping-centre records and 69 official school positions inside this boundary. These are source-position counts, not a complete inventory or proof of present access; station records can represent separate services at one interchange.
Supported lines represented here: Circle, Hammersmith & City, Metropolitan, Elizabeth line, Mildmay, Windrush, Northern, Piccadilly, Victoria, Suffragette. Coverage includes Underground, Overground, DLR and Elizabeth lines, not every National Rail service. Walking destinations can lie outside the borough.
Three public reference reports
These use the independent Check profile: all supported destination choices, walks up to 30 minutes, green spaces at least 2 hectares, both noise periods and no combined score. School results use all phases and both inspection schemes; the new report-card area is Curriculum and teaching. Origins are source positions, sometimes inside a site, not verified entrances. Unknown means reliable evidence is unavailable, not a pass.
1. Highbury & Islington Underground Station
Station reference · mapped entrance. Coordinates: 51.546350, -0.103324.
Retained source ID: 940GZZLUHAI. A source position is not a surveyed front door or verified entrance.
| Check | Saved evidence at this point |
|---|---|
| Aircraft noise | Daytime: Unknown — no source reading Nighttime: Unknown — no source reading |
| Road noise | Daytime: 77.34 dB Nighttime: 72.44 dB |
| Railway noise | Daytime: Unknown — no source reading Nighttime: Unknown — no source reading |
| Tube-track proximity | Outside the Tube setback 100 m setback · approximate boundary |
| Station walk | ≈ 1 min walk Highbury & Islington Rail Station mapped entrance |
| Green-space walk | ≈ 1 min walk Highbury Fields 11.7 ha · park |
| Recorded crime | Band 5 / 5 · Highest Islington 013B · E01002740 146.0 published crimes / 1,000 residents / year 665 crimes · 2024-09 – 2026-08 |
| School walk | ≈ 4 min walk The Courtyard Islington Not applicable · Free schools special · No linked inspection in the state-funded school snapshot · school position |
| Supermarket walk | ≈ 11 min walk Aldi Aldi · Mapped supermarket · store position |
| Shopping walk | ≈ 20 min walk Nag's Head Town Centre Shopping centre · centre position |
2. Highbury Fields
Green-space reference · Mapped green-space reference position; not an entrance. Coordinates: 51.551294, -0.100100.
Retained source ID: 37588243. A source position is not a surveyed front door or verified entrance.
| Check | Saved evidence at this point |
|---|---|
| Aircraft noise | Daytime: Unknown — no source reading Nighttime: Unknown — no source reading |
| Road noise | Daytime: 50.43 dB Nighttime: 45.61 dB |
| Railway noise | Daytime: Unknown — no source reading Nighttime: Unknown — no source reading |
| Tube-track proximity | Outside the Tube setback 100 m setback · approximate boundary |
| Station walk | ≈ 8 min walk Highbury & Islington Rail Station mapped entrance |
| Green-space walk | ≈ 1 min walk Highbury Fields 11.7 ha · park |
| Recorded crime | Band 4 / 5 · Higher Islington 009A · E01002738 101.5 published crimes / 1,000 residents / year 368 crimes · 2024-09 – 2026-08 |
| School walk | ≈ 3 min walk City of London Academy Highbury Grove Secondary · Academy sponsor led · Good · legacy overall · 2022-04-26 · school position |
| Supermarket walk | ≈ 12 min walk Co-op Food Co-op · Mapped supermarket · store position |
| Shopping walk | ≈ 22 min walk Nag's Head Town Centre Shopping centre · centre position |
3. Angel Central
Shopping-site reference · mapped centre entrance. Coordinates: 51.534184, -0.106129.
Retained source ID: w24545328. A source position is not a surveyed front door or verified entrance.
| Check | Saved evidence at this point |
|---|---|
| Aircraft noise | Daytime: Unknown — no source reading Nighttime: Unknown — no source reading |
| Road noise | Daytime: 68.54 dB Nighttime: 63.48 dB |
| Railway noise | Daytime: Unknown — no source reading Nighttime: Unknown — no source reading |
| Tube-track proximity | Outside the Tube setback 100 m setback · approximate boundary |
| Station walk | ≈ 3 min walk Angel Underground Station mapped entrance |
| Green-space walk | ≈ 8 min walk Barnard Park 4.1 ha · park |
| Recorded crime | Band 5 / 5 · Highest Islington 020B · E01002794 545.8 published crimes / 1,000 residents / year 2,370 crimes · 2024-09 – 2026-08 |
| School walk | ≈ 3 min walk St John Evangelist Catholic Primary School Primary · Voluntary aided school · No linked inspection in the state-funded school snapshot · school position |
| Supermarket walk | ≈ 1 min walk Waitrose Waitrose · Mapped supermarket · mapped customer entrance |
| Shopping walk | ≈ 1 min walk Angel Central Shopping centre · mapped centre entrance |
Turn this comparison into viewing questions
Choose the journeys and surroundings you actually need. Check the location of the home, the route and entrance you would use, indoor noise and current access. A missing noise value is unverified quietness; a missing supported-line result does not cover every rail service. Tube proximity does not measure vibration, crime bands do not predict personal safety, and a nearby school does not establish eligibility.
Source snapshots behind these examples
- Aircraft: Defra Round 4 (2022 mapping). Airport activity years vary and are not verified for every airport; missing readings do not establish quietness.
- Road and railway: Defra Round 4 (2022 mapping); 2021 road/rail activity; historical model, not live measurements.. Published values begin at 40 dB day / 35 dB night.
- Walking and mapped destinations: retained OSM snapshot 2026-10-30T21:24:51Z; packaged station snapshot, not live services.
- Crime: 2024-09 to 2026-08; resident population year 2024. Historical London-only bands, not safety grades.
- Schools: GIAS 2026-10-31; Ofsted 2026-09-30. Proximity does not establish admissions.
- Tube proxy: April 2026; 100 m setback, not measured vibration.
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