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Bushey

Bushey is a town in Greater London, England, with a population of around 28,416. It has 1 GP surgery, 1 pharmacy, and 8 restaurants and cafés, with 22 bus stops and Stanmore railway station 2.7 km away. The average sold house price is around £635,797, and there were around 107 recorded street crimes in June 2026, most commonly violence and sexual offences. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Bushey area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Harrow area is around the average in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 261,203 residents at roughly 5,175 people per km².

Council
Harrow
County
Greater London
Constituency
Harrow East
Police force
Metropolitan Police
53/ 100

My Area Score

Good

Ranked 132nd of 294 English council areas — better than 55% of them.

Low crime70
Home affordability4
Affordable rents9
Good schools88
Life expectancy97
Low deprivation52
Employment18
Low council tax30

A percentile blend of eight open measures (100 = best in England); bars show this area’s England-wide percentile on each. See the rankings · methodology

Weather

8°COvercast

  • Today: 10° / 8° · 24% rain
  • Tomorrow: 10° / 5° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 07:02Sunset 16:27

9h 25m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

17US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Brent - Ikea, United Kingdom

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 8.3 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
  • 6.2% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

Crime

110 reported · August 2026

  • Violence & sexual offences54
  • Anti-social behaviour22
  • Vehicle crime10
  • Other theft8

1 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Bushey and Radlett · Hertfordshire

Local policing priorities

  • Thank you to everyone who completed our latest local policing priorities survey. Following an analysis of public feedback, our priorities…

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

Road safety

358 reported road collisions (2025)

55 killed or seriously injured · 412 casualties · 13.7 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

  • 423 rated 4–5 ★ (360 top)
  • 9 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Bushey (1.7 km)
  • 30 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Bushey (1.7 km):

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Live buses at Melbourne Road:

  • 142 → Brent Cross · 7 min
  • 258 → South Harrow Station · 8 min
  • 142 → Brent Cross · 27 min

Source: OpenStreetMap, TfL, National Rail

House prices

£532,173 average▼ 2.5% YoY

Across Harrow · to 2026-08

Detached£1,217,606
Semi-detached£672,566
Terraced£545,066
Flat£319,799

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£1,778 average monthly rent▲ 2.9% YoY

  • 1 bed £1,394
  • 2 bed £1,715
  • 3 bed £2,064

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

Affordability

14.0× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 14.0 times median annual pay (13.4× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Property sales

1,471 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 138.8p · AppleGreen (10.3 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 146.8p · AppleGreen (10.3 km)

21 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

150 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 31 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 180 kW
  • Nearest: Opecprime Developments LTD (1.1 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Gyms2
  • Swimming pools29
  • Sports pitches22
  • Golf courses1
  • Playgrounds5

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local news

Population

261,203 residents in Harrow · 5,175/km²

  • Under 16: 20%
  • 16–64: 65%
  • 65+: 15%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • Moves in from elsewhere in the UK23,930
  • Moves out to elsewhere in the UK26,734
  • Net moves−2,804

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

Deprivation

Around the average in England

Ranked 153 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,511 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band D (31% of 96,860)

A £1,674
B £1,953
C £2,232
D £2,511
E £3,069
F £3,627
G £4,185
H £5,022

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

Schools

78 schools · 42,410 pupils

40 primary · 12 secondary · 26 other

Ofsted: 28 of 29 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (97%)

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

Secondary schools:

  • Bentley Wood High SchoolOutstanding
  • Nower Hill High SchoolOutstanding
  • Canons High SchoolGood
  • Avanti House School
  • Harrow High School
  • Hatch End High School
  • Park High School
  • Pinner High School
  • Rooks Heath School
  • Salvatorian Roman Catholic College
  • The Sacred Heart Language College
  • Whitmore High School

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Harrow

Care & health services

301 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes52
  • GP practices41
  • Dentists88
  • Homecare agencies93
  • Hospitals & hospices6

CQC ratings: 94% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 1 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Harrow

Heritage & planning

  • Not in the Green Belt
  • 69 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

Planning decisions

408 applications decided

69.9% granted · 285 granted, 123 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Your MP

Sir Oliver Dowden

Conservative

Hertsmere

Recent votes:

  • NoDraft Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications, Requests and Site Visits) (England) (Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2026
  • NoWithdrawal Agreement (Windsor Framework and Governance) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
  • NoDraft Code of Practice on Access and Unfair Practices During the Recognition and Derecognition Process
  • NoDraft Railways (Interoperability in Northern Ireland) (Convention on International Carriage by Rail) (Amendment) Regulations 2026

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Conservative majority

  • Lab 12
  • Con 41
  • Oth 2

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools17
  • GPs & clinics1
  • Pharmacies3
  • Parks & greens9
  • Restaurants & cafés15

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

16,455 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

93 jobs advertised · £34,056 avg

e.g. SEN Teaching Assistant / Learning Support Assistant, Finance Manager, Bank Host and Catering Assistant

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£880 median full-time weekly pay

4.9% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£31,484 disposable income per head (2024)

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

Energy efficiency

44% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 104,324 certificates

10.1% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Grid electricity

73% low-carbon electricity

Wind 44% · Gas 25% · Nuclear 19% · Biomass 10%

111 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for East England · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 86.3 yrs women · 83.1 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 62.7 women · 62.9 men

54% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.5
  • Feeling worthwhile8.0
  • Happiness yesterday7.6
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.5

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

Health services

3 GP surgeries · 6 pharmacies in WD23

  • Manor View Practice
  • Attenborough Surgery
  • Little Bushey Surgery

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Hertsmere:

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

Notable places nearby

  • Bushey · 0.0 km

    Bushey is a town in the Hertsmere borough of Hertfordshire in the East of England. It had a population of 25,328 in the 2011 census, rising to 28,416 in the 2021 census, an increase of 12.19%. This makes Bushey the se…

  • Bushey Rose Garden · 0.1 km

    Bushey Rose Garden is a rose garden in Bushey, Hertfordshire, England.

  • Bushey Studios · 0.1 km

    Bushey Studios was a British film studio located in Melbourne Road, Bushey, Hertfordshire, which operated between 1913 and 1985. The studios were built by German-born painter and film pioneer Hubert von Herkomer in th…

  • Lululaund · 0.1 km

    Lululaund was the Romanesque Revival-style house and studio of the Bavarian-born British artist Hubert von Herkomer, in Melbourne Road, Bushey, Hertfordshire. It was designed about 1886 and completed by 1894. The hous…

  • Bushey Museum & Art Gallery · 0.4 km

    Bushey Museum is in Bushey, Hertfordshire. It was officially opened as a volunteer-run museum in October 1993, having achieved Full Registration with the Museums and Galleries Commission. In the week prior to opening,…

  • St Margaret's School, Bushey · 0.6 km

    St Margaret's School is a private co-educational day school for pupils aged 2–18 in Bushey, Hertfordshire.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Bushey?
Bushey is a town in Greater London, England, in the Harrow local authority.
What is the population of Bushey?
Bushey has an approximate settlement population of 28,416.
How deprived is Bushey?
The Harrow local authority, which includes Bushey, is around the average in England on the IoD2025.