Flats to Rent in Camden

Renting in Camden

Camden runs north from Holborn and Bloomsbury, beside the West End and the City, through King's Cross and Camden Town to Hampstead, West Hampstead, Kilburn and the edge of Highgate. The south of the borough is in Zone 1 and most of the rest is in Zone 2. On the ONS measure in the table above, its average rent is well above the London average. Council tax is above average too: Band D is £2,207.55 in 2026/27, against a London average of £2,068 (MHCLG).

The housing is mostly flats: Georgian terraces and mansion blocks in the south, Victorian houses split into conversions further north, large council estates across the borough, and new blocks at King's Cross. Camden also licenses shared homes borough-wide: from 8 December 2025 to 8 December 2030, landlords of HMOs with three or more tenants from two or more households, including flat shares, need a council licence.

The neighbourhoods

Bloomsbury, Holborn and Fitzrovia

Bloomsbury is the university quarter: UCL, SOAS and other University of London colleges, the British Museum on Great Russell Street and garden squares such as Russell, Gordon and Tavistock Squares, with the British Library just north across Euston Road. Holborn station has the Central and Piccadilly lines. Fitzrovia is split with Westminster along Cleveland Street; the Camden side includes Charlotte Street and Goodge Street station on the Northern line. Almost all homes are flats, most of them in purpose-built blocks, from mansion blocks to council estates, with fewer in converted Georgian houses.

King's Cross and Euston

King's Cross and St Pancras stations, and most of the King's Cross Central development on the old railway goods yards behind them, are in Camden; the boundary with Islington follows York Way, and a small part of the development is on the Islington side. Granary Square sits on the Regent's Canal in front of the Granary Building, home to Central Saint Martins since 2011, and Coal Drops Yard has turned Victorian coal stores into shops. Rentals there are flats in new blocks. Around Euston station, HS2 building work will go on for years: the government expects HS2 trains to reach Euston between 2040 and the end of 2043. Ask what is being built near any flat you view there.

Camden Town and Chalk Farm

Camden Town is built around Camden High Street and Camden Market, which has three parts around the Regent's Canal: Camden Lock, the Stables Market and Hawley Wharf. The Electric Ballroom is on the High Street, and the Roundhouse in Chalk Farm, built in 1846–47 as a railway engine shed, is now a concert and theatre venue. Camden Town station is where the Northern line's two northern branches meet; Chalk Farm is one stop north on the Edgware branch, and Camden Road is on the Overground's Mildmay line. The High Street and market are crowded at weekends and busy late at night, so check which way a bedroom faces. Away from the centre are quieter terraces, mostly split into flats, and council estates.

Primrose Hill and Belsize Park

Primrose Hill is a Royal Park with views south over central London. The streets to its north-east, around Regent's Park Road, are Victorian terraces and villas, many split into flats, with a short run of shops; Chalk Farm is the nearest station. Belsize Park, between Primrose Hill and Hampstead, has large stucco and red-brick Victorian houses, most divided into flats, with shops and restaurants on Haverstock Hill around Belsize Park station (Northern line, Edgware branch).

Hampstead

Hampstead is a hilltop former village of Georgian and Victorian houses and small shops around Heath Street and Hampstead High Street, where Hampstead station (Northern line, Edgware branch) is in Zones 2 and 3. Keats House, where John Keats lived from 1818 to 1820, is near Hampstead Heath station on the Mildmay line, and the Freud Museum is at 20 Maresfield Gardens, Sigmund Freud's last home. Rentals range from flats in converted houses to large family houses.

Kentish Town, Gospel Oak and Dartmouth Park

Kentish Town Road is a working high street, and the O2 Forum Kentish Town, a music venue, is on Highgate Road. Kentish Town station has the Northern line's High Barnet branch and Thameslink trains, and Kentish Town West is on the Mildmay line. Gospel Oak, to the north-west, has Parliament Hill Lido, an unheated 60-metre open-air pool open all year, and Gospel Oak station, where the Mildmay line meets the Suffragette line to Barking Riverside. Dartmouth Park, on the slopes up to Highgate, has quieter Victorian streets, with Tufnell Park station just over the boundary in Islington. Most homes are flats, in Victorian terraces split into conversions or in purpose-built blocks, including council estates.

West Hampstead, Swiss Cottage and Kilburn

West Hampstead, built around West End Lane, has three separate stations a short walk apart: West Hampstead on the Jubilee line, West Hampstead on the Mildmay line and West Hampstead Thameslink. Swiss Cottage and Finchley Road, to the east, are on the Jubilee line, and Finchley Road also has the Metropolitan line. Kilburn High Road, the old Roman Watling Street, is the boundary with Brent: the east side is in Camden, and Kilburn station on the Jubilee line is on the Brent side. Much of the stock is red-brick mansion blocks and houses split into flats.

Getting around

Three main-line terminals are in Camden: Euston (trains to the West Midlands, the North West and Glasgow, and the Overground's Lioness line to Watford Junction), St Pancras International (Eurostar to Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam, Thameslink, trains to Leicester, Nottingham and Sheffield, and high-speed trains to Kent) and King's Cross (trains up the East Coast Main Line to Leeds, Newcastle and Edinburgh). King's Cross St Pancras Underground station has six lines. The Northern line runs the length of the borough, splitting at Camden Town for Hampstead (Edgware branch) and Kentish Town (High Barnet branch), the Jubilee line serves the west, and the Overground's Mildmay line crosses it from West Hampstead to Camden Road. The Regent's Canal towpath is a walking and cycling route from Camden Town to King's Cross. Check a specific commute on the TfL Journey Planner before you sign.

Schools

State secondaries include the UCL Academy in Swiss Cottage, Hampstead School, Haverstock School in Chalk Farm, Regent High School in Somers Town, Maria Fidelis Catholic School and Camden School for Girls, a comprehensive with a mixed sixth form. Parliament Hill School (girls), William Ellis School (boys), La Sainte Union (Catholic, girls) and Acland Burghley School share the LaSWAP sixth form. Independent schools include University College School and South Hampstead High School (girls). Faith and independent schools set their own admissions rules, and popular primaries can have small distance catchments, so read each school's admissions criteria and its latest Ofsted report before choosing a street for a school.

Parks and open space

Hampstead Heath, run by the City of London Corporation, is mostly in Camden; the Heath Extension and Golders Hill Park are in Barnet. It has Parliament Hill, with views over the City, and three bathing ponds: the Kenwood Ladies' Pond and Highgate Men's Pond open all year, and the Mixed Pond from April to October. Kenwood House, on its northern edge, is run by English Heritage and free to enter; its paintings include a Vermeer and a Rembrandt. Primrose Hill and the Camden part of Regent's Park are Royal Parks. In Highgate, Waterlow Park, with Lauderdale House, sits next to Highgate Cemetery. In Bloomsbury, Coram's Fields on Guilford Street is a children's park that adults may enter only with a child.

Safety

Recorded crime is highest where the crowds are, in the Holborn and Covent Garden, Bloomsbury and Camden Town wards, which take in the edge of the West End, the university quarter and the market. Ward figures mix busy main roads with quiet side streets. For a specific street, the police's crime map at police.uk shows reported crime month by month.

Who it suits

Camden suits people who work in the West End, the City, King's Cross or the universities and want a short commute; people who travel often by Eurostar or long-distance train; and people who want Hampstead Heath on the doorstep. It suits people less well if they are on a tight budget or want quiet near Camden Town's market and venues.

Useful links

Camden Council: camden.gov.uk (council tax, HMO licensing, parking permits, school admissions)
Crime by street: police.uk
Journeys: tfl.gov.uk/plan-a-journey
Hampstead Heath, ponds and lido: cityoflondon.gov.uk

The listings above are homes and rooms advertised by their landlords in Camden now. If you are renting a room in a shared flat or house with three or more people from different households, ask the landlord for the property's HMO licence: in Camden it needs one.