London’s neighbourhoods on 13 lists
The best overall grade in London is River Bend’s A−. With 7 first places, River Bend leads the most lists. Lambeth makes the top three on 9 lists. Schools is graded within Ontario alone, so its list stops at the border. Not one leader in London is first nationally. Here are 13 lists for London, with 29 neighbourhoods on them.
Each list ranks the neighbourhoods in London against one another; the letters compare every place with Canada’s towns. How grades work
Every list for London’s neighbourhoods
Grouped by what they measure, each with its three best neighbourhoods.
Overall, and by size
Subject by subject
- River BendC+
- LambethC+
- TalbotC+
- River BendC+
- LambethC+
- UplandsC+
- LambethA+
- River BendA+
- UplandsA
- North LondonA−
- Central LondonA−
- South LondonA−
- LambethA
- JacksonA
- StoneybrookA
- Central LondonA+
- North LondonA+
- West LondonA+
- River BendA
- LambethA
- UplandsA
- River BendC+
- LambethC+
- UplandsC+
Described: figures, no letters
Neighbourhood rankings in other cities
Photos: Uplands, Quinten Wiegersma (CC BY 4.0) · Talbot, (c) Andrew Murray, some rights reserved (CC BY) (CC BY 4.0) · North London, Jfvoll (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Central London, Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA (CC BY-SA 2.0) · South London, Adam Bishop (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Stoneybrook, WabbitWanderer from London, Canada (CC BY-SA 2.0) · West London, Gogerr (CC BY 4.0) · Carling, WabbitWanderer from London, Canada (CC BY-SA 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons.
Sources: TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranking Canadian towns against each other only, run #73 of 10 November 2026. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).