The borough features on an annual list compiled by The Times.
This list has been published annually since 2013 and put together by a panel of expert judges, but this year they are letting numbers do the talking.
By looking at data for nine different categories such as education, healthcare and crime, The Times has ranked each local authority in England.
Each category was weighted equally and measured with a numerical value from 1 to 291 – the lower the score, the better.
Tower Hamlets has placed 33rd – the highest placed borough in east London, with its school rating leading the reasoning.
Tower Hamlets ranked higher than any of the top 49 best places to live for the category of ‘schools’.
A score of five was given for the borough’s education, which looked at the percentage of schools rated ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted.
This was higher than even Richmond, Cheltenham and Stroud: the top three places to live in the country according to the list.
Tower Hamlets was east London’s highest ranked borough to live in (Image: Google) Tower Hamlets also scored well in the ‘community interest companies category’. A value of 14 was given based on the number of community interest companies registered per 10,000 people in the area.
This was also a better score than the top three overall locations in this list.
The borough’s healthcare was ranked also relatively well, according to the data.
The ‘NHS target’ looked at the percentage of patients seen for treatment in 18 weeks after referral as of October 2024.
This was given a score of 48, whilst the ‘NHS waiting time’ was scored 39.
But the borough ranked poorly for ‘satisfaction with GPs’ with a score of 259 and for ‘crime’, where it was given a value of 226. This was measured through the number of offences in the area per 1,000 people as of March 2024.
For ‘parks with a Green Flag award’, which looked at the number of Green Flag parks per 10,000 people, Tower Hamlets scored 52.
The final category was ‘listed buildings’, which looked at the number of listed buildings per 10,000 people. A score of 179 was awarded to Tower Hamlets.
