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Harrow

Harrow is a town in Hertfordshire, England, with a population of around 149,246. It has 1 GP surgery, 1 pharmacy, and around 8 restaurants and cafés, with 22 bus stops and Hatch End railway station 2.9 km away. The average sold house price is around £504,171, and there were around 37 recorded street crimes in June 2026, most commonly violence & sexual offences. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Harrow area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Hertsmere area is less deprived than the average in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 107,827 residents at roughly 1,066 people per km².

Council
Hertsmere
County
Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hertsmere
Police force
Hertfordshire
53/ 100

My Area Score

Good

Ranked 134th of 294 English council areas — better than 54% of them.

Low crime59
Home affordability12
Affordable rents16
Good schools55
Life expectancy86
Low deprivation72
Employment38
Low council tax59

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

10°CPatchy rain nearby

  • Today: 11° / 6° · 34% rain
  • Tomorrow: 12° / 7° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:57Sunset 16:32

9h 36m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

31US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: coarse particles (PM10)

Source: WAQI · Brent - Ikea, United Kingdom

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 7.8 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
  • 5.8% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

Crime

53 reported · August 2026▲ 29% YoY

  • Violence & sexual offences25
  • Anti-social behaviour11
  • Burglary7
  • Other theft3

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

223 reported road collisions (2025)

43 killed or seriously injured · 317 casualties · 20.7 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

297 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 244 rated 4–5 ★ (198 top)
  • 10 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Hatch End (2.9 km)
  • 22 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Hatch End (2.9 km):

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Live buses at Avanti House Primary School:

  • 258 → South Harrow Station · 13 min
  • 258 → South Harrow Station · 27 min

Source: OpenStreetMap, TfL, National Rail

House prices

£553,008 average▲ 1.5% YoY

Across Hertsmere · to 2026-08

Detached£1,207,168
Semi-detached£619,477
Terraced£491,260
Flat£294,407

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£1,829 average monthly rent▲ 3.6% YoY

  • 1 bed £1,258
  • 2 bed £1,604
  • 3 bed £1,941

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

Affordability

11.9× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 11.9 times median annual pay (12.4× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Property sales

1,090 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 (8.7 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 146.8p · AppleGreen (8.7 km)

24 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

150 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 25 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 180 kW
  • Nearest: Hertsmere Borough Council-High Road Car Park (0.8 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres1
  • Gyms1
  • Swimming pools48
  • Sports pitches31
  • Golf courses2
  • Playgrounds3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

107,827 residents in Hertsmere · 1,066/km²

  • Under 16: 20%
  • 16–64: 62%
  • 65+: 18%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • Moves in from elsewhere in the UK8,918
  • Moves out to elsewhere in the UK8,715
  • Net moves+203

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

Deprivation

Less deprived than the average in England

Ranked 214 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

2% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,406 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band D (33% of 45,920)

A £1,604
B £1,871
C £2,139
D £2,406
E £2,940
F £3,475
G £4,010
H £4,812

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

Schools

58 schools · 22,822 pupils

31 primary · 8 secondary · 19 other

Ofsted: 17 of 19 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (89%)

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

Secondary schools:

  • Dame Alice Owen's SchoolOutstanding
  • Yavneh CollegeGood
  • Gracewood AcademyRequires improvement
  • Bushey Meads School
  • Elstree Screen Arts Academy
  • Hertswood Academy
  • Queens' School
  • The Grange Academy

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Hertsmere

Care & health services

1,176 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes257
  • GP practices171
  • Dentists296
  • Homecare agencies330
  • Hospitals & hospices34

CQC ratings: 86% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 7 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Hertfordshire

Heritage & planning

  • Within the Green Belt
  • 57 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

Planning decisions

217 applications decided

84.3% granted · 183 granted, 34 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Council control

Labour / Liberal Democrat coalition

  • Lab 12
  • Con 15
  • LD 7
  • Ref 2
  • Oth 3

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools8
  • GPs & clinics1
  • Pharmacies1
  • Parks & greens15
  • Restaurants & cafés10

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

8,480 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

780 jobs advertised · £43,801 avg

e.g. Gopuff Delivery Drivers or Riders - Flexible Schedule, Apprentice Educator, Delivery Driver - Park Royal

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£882 median full-time weekly pay

3.6% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£36,877 disposable income per head (2024)

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

Energy efficiency

49% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 45,217 certificates

8% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Health

Life expectancy: 85.2 yrs women · 82.4 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Hertfordshire): 65.5 women · 65.4 men

61% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.5
  • Feeling worthwhile7.7
  • Happiness yesterday6.9
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.0

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

  • RAF Bentley Priory · 0.6 km

    RAF Bentley Priory was a non-flying Royal Air Force station near Stanmore in the London Borough of Harrow. It was the headquarters of Fighter Command in the Battle of Britain and throughout the Second World War. The R…

  • Bentley Priory · 0.6 km

    Bentley Priory is an eighteenth to nineteenth century stately home and deer park in Stanmore on the northern edge of the Greater London area in the London Borough of Harrow.

  • Harrow Weald Common · 0.7 km

    Harrow Weald Common is an 18-hectare area of woodland, heath and pasture in Harrow Weald in the London Borough of Harrow. It is considered of considerable importance for wildlife, and it was formerly part of the Stanm…

  • Harrow Weald SSSI · 0.8 km

    Harrow Weald SSSI is a 3.7 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Harrow Weald in the London Borough of Harrow. It was formerly part of the Stanmore and Harrow Weald Commons and Bentley Priory SSSI.…

  • Stanmore Common · 0.8 km

    Stanmore Common is a 49.2-hectare public park, Local Nature Reserve and Site of Metropolitan Importance for Nature Conservation in Stanmore in the London Borough of Harrow in England. It is owned by Harrow Council and…

  • Grim's Dyke · 1.0 km

    Grim's Dyke is a house and estate in Harrow Weald, in northwest London, England. The house was built from 1870 to 1872 by Richard Norman Shaw for painter Frederick Goodall and named after the nearby prehistoric earthw…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Harrow?
Harrow is a town in Hertfordshire, England, in the Hertsmere local authority.
What is the population of Harrow?
Harrow has an approximate settlement population of 149,246.
How deprived is Harrow?
The Hertsmere local authority, which includes Harrow, is less deprived than the average in England on the IoD2025.