Is Edgware, London a nice place to live?

Is Edgware a nice place to live or is Edgware rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Edgware is on the up an up, it's time for a bit of reality. Cold hard statistics culled from the Police, the Indices of Deprivation and the latest census. Is Edgware truly a nice place to live, or are Harrow, Hendon and Elstree a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Edgware?

Using the latest Police street crime figures (typically from 3 months ago) we have compiled a table of the most voilent Policing areas in and around Edgware. Naturally the more urban and more central areas will have a higher rate of crime, but often you can be surprised when that is not the case and that is the area you want to move to.
Policing Area Voilent Crimes
Burnt Oak 131
Colindale 130
Belmont 107
Holders Hill 103
Edgware 97
Canons Park 80
Little Stanmore 80
Mill Hill 52
Barnet Gate 19
Arkley 5

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Edgware. These statistics are published by the government every 2-3 years. They are a measure of how likely you are to be a victim of personal or material crime in an area, such as muggings or burglary. We've taken the rank average for wards in and around Edgware and compared them. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.

You least likely to be a victim of crime in the Queensbury ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Queensbury (Best) 20573/32845
Stanmore Park 20044/32845
Canons 19856/32845
Hale 16839/32845
Edgware 16619/32845
Colindale 13951/32845
Queensbury 12798/32845
Edgware 11677/32845
Fryent 10433/32845
Burnt Oak (Worst) 9912/32845
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Your Health in Edgware

If you are thinking of moving to Edgware, you want to know if the place is likely to put you on a downward spiral of ill health. We've taken the healh question from the latest census to find out and how Edgware compares to its neighbouring local authorities. People were asked to rate their current health from very bad to very good;

Town Very Bad Bad
Ealing 1.22% 3.79%
Barnet (Edgware) 1.14% 3.42%
Harrow 1.1% 3.47%
Three Rivers 0.84% 3.06%

The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Edgware. They measures the risk of premature death and the impairment of quality of life through poor physical or mental health, lovely! We've collated an average rank for all the Lower Super Output Areas (LSOA) in each ward in and around Edgware. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;

Ward Average rank in England
Queensbury (Best) 30638/32845
Edgware 29424/32845
Canons 28851/32845
Stanmore Park 27997/32845
Hale 27737/32845
Edgware 27443/32845
Fryent 24633/32845
Colindale 24619/32845
Queensbury 24484/32845
Burnt Oak (Worst) 21769/32845
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Deprivation in Edgware

Using the English Indices of Deprivation statistics, we've collated the average Index of Multiple Deprivation rank of all the LSOAs in the wards in and around Edgware. In layman's terms, this is how rough the ward is based on mutiple measures of deprivation including; employment, income, health, crime, housing and outside space.

Ward Average rank in England
Queensbury (Best) 20942/32845
Edgware 20311/32845
Canons 20088/32845
Hale 19359/32845
Stanmore Park 18565/32845
Edgware 16670/32845
Fryent 15060/32845
Queensbury 14817/32845
Colindale 11352/32845
Burnt Oak (Worst) 9288/32845

Average rent in Edgware

Every six months the Office for National statitics publishes a snapshot of rental costs. These statistics for Edgware are dated September 2021. They are split into three figures, the lower quartile, mean and upper quartile. If you recieve housing benefit or the housing benefit section of Universal Credit, the lower quartile is at the top limit of what would be affordable. The mean is the average you'd expect to pay for a rental property and the upper quartile is the average rental cost of the most expensive 25% of properties in Edgware.

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Edgware

If you are thinking of moving to Edgware, you'll want to know how much you can earn in a job in the town. The government publish regular statistics on gross weekly pay and pay per hour.

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