Where is Royal Veterinary College?

Camden Campus is at Royal College Street, London NW1 0TU.

What is the cheapest area to live near Royal Veterinary College?

Of the areas Boroughly covers near Camden Campus, Wood Green has the lowest estimated monthly room rent at around £850. The cheapest rent is not always the cheapest option once travel is included.

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Best areas to live for Royal Veterinary College students

In short: The RVC splits between Camden in north London and Hawkshead in Hertfordshire. Most students spend the early years in Camden and later years at Hawkshead, so a mid-degree move is normal and worth planning for. Across the 12 areas below, an estimated room runs from about £850 a month in Wood Green to £1,600 in Marylebone.

Campus

Camden Campus

Postcode

NW1 0TU

Areas ranked

Cheapest room

Wood Green · £850

Where the campus actually is

Camden Campus · Royal College Street, London NW1 0TU

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Check your site before you sign. RVC also teaches from Hawkshead (AL9 7TA). This page ranks areas around Camden Campus. If your department is elsewhere, the answer changes.

12 areas ranked by what a room costs

Cheapest first. These are the Boroughly areas within reach of Camden Campus, with a per-room rate for a shared house and a self-contained studio rate for each.

Areas near campus ranked by monthly room rent, cheapest first
#	Area	Roomper month	Studioper month	To campusdoor to door	Route	Late nights
1	Wood GreenHaringey · 6.9 km from campus	£850^†	£1,250^†	53 min	Replacement Bus PL-6 → Victoria line → bus 214	Piccadilly line Night Tube (Fri/Sat); night buses every night
2	Golders GreenBarnet · 5.7 km from campus	£1,025^†	£1,475^†	31 min	Northern line → 16 min walk	Northern line Night Tube (Fri/Sat); night buses every night
3	ClaptonHackney · 6.0 km from campus	£1,025^†	£1,475^†	42 min	Weaver → 8 min walk → Mildmay	Night buses only - the nearest Night Tube or night Overground station is a bus or taxi ride away.
4	Finsbury ParkIslington/Haringey · 3.6 km from campus	£1,050^†	£1,525^†	27 min	Victoria line → bus 214	Victoria and Piccadilly line Night Tube (Fri/Sat); night buses every night
5	KilburnBrent/Camden · 4.3 km from campus	£1,050^†	£1,525^†	33 min	8 min walk → Mildmay → 13 min walk	Jubilee line Night Tube (Fri/Sat); night buses every night
6	Kentish TownCamden · 1.5 km from campus	£1,200^†	£1,750^†	18 min	bus 134 → 10 min walk	Northern line Night Tube (Fri/Sat); night buses every night
7	HighburyIslington · 3.1 km from campus	£1,200^†	£1,750^†	35 min	17 min walk → Mildmay → 13 min walk	Victoria line Night Tube (Fri/Sat); Windrush line Overground night service (Fri/Sat); night buses every night
8	IslingtonIslington · 2.1 km from campus	£1,250^†	£1,825^†	26 min	bus 30 → bus 214	Victoria and Piccadilly line Night Tube (Fri/Sat); night buses every night
9	CamdenCamden · 0.7 km from campus	£1,275^†	£1,850^†	12 min	bus 214	Northern line Night Tube (Fri/Sat); night buses every night
10	HampsteadCamden · 3.7 km from campus	£1,400^†	£2,050^†	33 min	9 min walk → Northern line → 16 min walk	Night buses only - the nearest Night Tube or night Overground station is a bus or taxi ride away.
11	St John's WoodWestminster · 2.8 km from campus	£1,450^†	£2,125^†	36 min	bus 113 → bus 31 → 10 min walk	Jubilee line Night Tube (Fri/Sat); night buses every night
12	MaryleboneWestminster · 2.3 km from campus	£1,600^†	£2,350^†	27 min	8 min walk → bus 27 → 11 min walk	Jubilee and Central line Night Tube (Fri/Sat); night buses every night

Three areas that look cheap and usually aren't

These areas advertise some of the lowest rents on the list. Once the journey is counted, they stop being the cheap option for someone at Camden Campus. That does not make them bad places to live — it means the headline rent is not the number to compare.

Wood GreenA room is about £850 a month, which puts it among the cheaper options here. The journey is 53 minutes each way, against 12 minutes from Camden. Over a teaching year that difference is roughly 205 hours, before you add the fare for the extra distance.

Compare these areas side by side

The table above ranks on rent alone. Every area links to a full Boroughly guide with all seven life scores — safety, schools, green space, transport, diversity, LGBTQ+ friendliness and buzz — so you can see what the cheaper rent is costing you.

Head-to-head comparisons covering areas on this list:

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What to weigh up before you commit

The cheapest postcode is rarely the cheapest option overall. Add the travel cost to the rent before comparing anything, then add the time: an extra 20 minutes each way is roughly 130 hours over a teaching year. A more expensive room that removes that journey can be the better deal even in cash terms.

Check the route at the hour you will actually travel. Something that takes 25 minutes at midday can take 40 in the morning peak, and an evening lab or a late rehearsal puts you on a very different network. If you will be coming home after midnight, read the late-night column before the rent column.

Then look at what a viewing will not tell you. Boroughly's area guides score every one of these neighbourhoods on safety, green space, amenities and transport, using the same method as the rest of the site.

How these numbers were worked out

Areas are the Boroughly areas nearest the campus postcode, then filtered to those with rent data and ranked cheapest first.
Rent marked † figures are modelled from Boroughly's two-bedroom estimate for the same area, not observed listings. Use them to compare areas against each other, not as a quote. Two-bed figures come from the same dataset as the rest of the site.
Commute is a door-to-door public transport journey from the centre of each area to the campus postcode, requested from Transport for London's journey planner for a weekday arrival at 09:00. Your own door will differ by a few minutes.
Late nights: Night Tube and night Overground run Friday and Saturday only. Night buses run every night across London. Check TfL before relying on any of it.
All of this is a comparison aid. Before signing anything, use your university's accommodation service — most run free contract checks and approved-landlord lists.

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Check RVC's own campus and accommodation information · RVC Students' Union usually runs a housing advice service too.