On the map, cheap London postcodes serve pricey shawarma and Marylebone undercuts Croydon

18 London postcode districts, each placed at a representative restaurant postcode: marker size is the district's mean chicken-shawarma price in £, colour is HouseMetric's median residential sold price per m² (generally the latest 24 months). Across the 18 districts, Pearson r = 0.106 and Spearman rho = 0.145 — a negligible positive relationship. Markers are restaurant/postcode point locations, not neighbourhood boundaries.

18 districts, sized by shawarma price, coloured by property £/m²

Hover any marker for district, representative postcode, mean shawarma price, median property £/m² and restaurant count. Big pale markers (expensive wrap, cheap property) and small dark ones (cheap wrap, expensive property) coexist across the map — the visual signature of a near-zero correlation. Points for N1, N3, NW6 and W2 are district/neighbourhood representatives rather than exact restaurant postcodes.

median residential sold price, £/m²

£4,740£15,240

Labelled markers: the four sharpest contrasts — CR0, W3, W1U and N3

The conclusion stays flat: r = 0.106, rho = 0.145 across 18 districts. A negligible positive association — no meaningful evidence that shawarma gets dearer as residential £/m² rises. Descriptive, not causal.

The same 18 districts as a scatter

CR0 pairs the cheapest property in the sample, £4,740/m², with one of the dearest wraps at £11.95. just-eat.co.uk · housemetric.co.uk

W1U flips it: the most expensive property, £15,240/m², yet a £9.00 wrap — cheaper than Croydon's. ubereats.com · housemetric.co.uk

Both shawarma extremes sit in mid-priced property: W3's £13.70 maximum at £7,110/m² and N3's £4.00 minimum at £6,670/m². eateasy.co.uk · reddit.com

Only SE1 has two sampled restaurants, £3.00 and £8.99 — a £5.99 spread inside one district, wider than most between-district differences. hampsteadvillagelondon.com · just-eat.co.uk

The 18 districts behind the map

District	Rep. postcode	Mean shawarma £	Property £/m²	Restaurants	Menu source	Property source	Coordinates

Method: 18 postcode districts (19 restaurant-level observations; only SE1 has two sampled restaurants, all others one), each district's mean chicken-shawarma price joined to HouseMetric's median residential sold price per m², usually a latest-24-month median — not commercial rent. District-level Pearson r = 0.106, Spearman rho = 0.145; restaurant-level r = 0.098, rho = 0.154. Markers sit at representative restaurant/full-postcode points where available; N1, N3, NW6 and W2 use district/neighbourhood representative points. Postcode districts stand in for neighbourhoods. Menus mix or omit dates (observations span 2022–2026), sizes and delivery-versus-in-store channels; one price is a Reddit report and some sources are older or user-generated. Correlation here is descriptive, not causal. Restaurant-level item detail was folded into map tooltips and links for space.