North London homes for sale, from Old North to the city's northern edge

Which neighbourhoods make up North London?

From the river north (2016 Census figures are from the City's neighbourhood profiles):

• Old North: the City's North London district, with the Bishop Hellmuth Heritage Conservation District (2003), Gibbons Park and St. Joseph's Hospital on Grosvenor Street.
• Medway: takes in most of Western's main campus and University Hospital on Windermere Road; 52% detached and 20% row housing.
• Masonville: around Masonville Place, north of the university; 61% single-detached, with 17% of homes in buildings of five or more storeys.
• Stoneybrook: almost entirely detached houses, 92% single-detached and 97% owned.
• Carling: 20,045 residents, with 35% of homes in buildings of five or more storeys and 61% rented.
• Huron Heights: home to Fanshawe College's main campus on Fanshawe College Boulevard; owners (56%) and renters close to an even split.
• Uplands: 77% single-detached, with the population more than doubling from 3,475 in 1996 to 8,320 in 2016.
• Stoney Creek: grew from 3,750 residents in 1996 to 11,135, mainly detached houses and row housing plus a quarter of homes in apartment buildings.
• Sunningdale: 505 residents in 1996 and 5,385 twenty years later, with apartment buildings of five or more storeys going from none to 26% of homes.
• Fanshawe: the northeast growth district, from 40 residents in 1996 to 2,025, 85% single-detached and 97% owned.
• Fox Hollow: bordering Medway, Sunningdale and Hyde Park; 115 residents in 1996, 2,820 in 2016, 80% single-detached.
• Hyde Park: a London Plan Main Street district that went from 270 residents to 8,170 between 1996 and 2016.

Why do the university, the college and two hospitals matter here?

Several of London's largest institutions sit in these districts. Western University, founded in 1878 and on its current campus since the Kingsmill land was bought in 1916, sits where the North London and Medway districts meet. University Hospital is at 339 Windermere Road, St. Joseph's Hospital at 268 Grosvenor Street, and Fanshawe College's main campus at 1001 Fanshawe College Boulevard in Huron Heights.

That mix shapes the housing. Carling, Old North and Huron Heights all had a large share of renters in 2016, while Stoneybrook and Fanshawe were almost entirely owner-occupied. If you plan to rent out part of a house near either campus, check the City's current rules first.

How do the homes change as you drive north?

Close to the river, Old North's Bishop Hellmuth district is one of the City's designated heritage conservation districts, so alterations to designated properties go through the City's Heritage Alteration Permit process. Hyde Park, at the other end of the quadrant, is one of the Main Streets The London Plan names.

At the northern edge the districts are much younger. Sunningdale, Fox Hollow and Fanshawe each had fewer than a thousand residents in 1996, and Stoney Creek nearly tripled over the same 20 years, so most of their homes are recent. For a first look at price bands across all 12 districts, try what your budget buys in London.