Barnet

18°COvercast

• Today: 21° / 12° · 36% rain
• Tomorrow: 23° / 15° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:26Sunset 19:29

13h 3m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

34US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Brent - Ikea, United Kingdom

554 reported · July 2026▲ 7% YoY

• Anti-social behaviour191
• Violence & sexual offences166
• Public order35
• Shoplifting31

32 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Burnt Oak · Metropolitan

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

777 reported road collisions (2024)

107 killed or seriously injured · 875 casualties · 20 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

• 384 rated 4–5 ★ (280 top)
• 28 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

• Nearest station: Mill Hill Broadway (0.8 km)
• 54 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, TfL, National Rail

£603,753 average▼ 2.9% YoY

Across Barnet · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,945 average monthly rent▲ 3.6% YoY

• 1 bed £1,496
• 2 bed £1,854
• 3 bed £2,250

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

14.9× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 14.9 times median annual pay (13.5× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 138.8p · AppleGreen (8.5 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 145.8p · AppleGreen (11 km)

62 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

150 charging locations within ~8 km

• 16 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 180 kW
• Nearest: hub_l001801_cs_10 (0.7 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres4
• Gyms4
• Swimming pools3
• Sports pitches36
• Playgrounds12

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

389,341 residents in Barnet · 4,489/km²

• Under 16: 21%
• 16–64: 65%
• 65+: 14%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Around the average in England

Ranked 184 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,133 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band D (25% of 160,460)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

171 schools · 66,527 pupils

88 primary · 24 secondary · 59 other

Ofsted: 56 of 58 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (97%)

128inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Barnet

453 CQC-registered services

• Care homes79
• GP practices78
• Dentists140
• Homecare agencies99
• Hospitals & hospices9

CQC ratings: 90% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 1 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Barnet

• In a conservation area (The Watling Estate)
• Not in the Green Belt
• 21 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

615 applications decided

74.8% granted · 460 granted, 155 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

David Pinto-Duschinsky

Labour

Hendon

Source: UK Parliament

Labour (minority)

• Lab 31
• Con 31
• Grn 1

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Schools24
• GPs & clinics4
• Pharmacies4
• Supermarkets9
• Parks & greens16
• Restaurants & cafés64

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

26,760 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

1,504 jobs advertised · £39,598 avg

e.g. Senior Nursery Room Leader, Mobile Mechanic, Mobile Vehicle Technician

Source: Adzuna

£905 median full-time weekly pay

5% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£38,184 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

49% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 192,137 certificates

9.3% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

64% low-carbon electricity

Wind 36% · Gas 34% · Nuclear 15% · Biomass 11%

147 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 85.5 yrs women · 82.9 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 61.7 women · 62.7 men

53% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.0
• Feeling worthwhile7.4
• Happiness yesterday7.0
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.3

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

18 GP surgeries · 17 pharmacies in HA8

• Watling Medical Centre
• Parkview Surgery
• Penshurst Gardens Surgery

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Hendon:

• Fund permanent, 24-hour police patrols in Jewish communities1,637 local signatures · 11,464 nationwide
• Sever UK-Iran ties, withdraw recognition of Iran’s regime & expel all diplomats810 local signatures · 26,542 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s407 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership280 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office233 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

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  Mill Hill Old Railway Nature Reserve · 0.3 km

  Mill Hill Old Railway Nature Reserve is a 2.3-hectare (5.7-acre) Site of Borough Importance for Nature Conservation, Grade II, in Mill Hill in the London Borough of Barnet.

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  Burnt Oak Brook · 0.3 km

  Burnt Oak Brook is a one-mile-long stream between Mill Hill and Burnt Oak in the London Borough of Barnet. It is a tributary of the Silk Stream, which is a tributary of the River Brent, which is a tributary of the Riv…

• Watling Park · 0.4 km

  Watling Park is a public park in Burnt Oak in the London Borough of Barnet. It is one of Barnet's sixteen premier parks.

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  John Keble Church, Mill Hill · 0.4 km

  The John Keble Church is a Church of England parish church in Mill Hill, London Borough of Barnet. The church was completed in 1936 and is of a modernist design. It is the only church dedicated to John Keble, one of t…

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  Deans Brook · 0.7 km

  Deans Brook is a two-kilometre-long stream which runs between Mill Hill and Edgware in the London Borough of Barnet. It is a tributary of the Silk Stream, which is a tributary of the River Brent, which is a tributary…

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  Mill Hill (The Hale) railway station · 0.8 km

  Mill Hill (The Hale) was a station in Mill Hill in north London. It was on the now-removed railway between Mill Hill East station and Edgware railway station, near the junction of Bunns Lane and Lyndhurst Avenue.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)