Is Harrow, London a nice place to live?

Is Harrow a nice place to live or is Harrow rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Harrow 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 Harrow truly a nice place to live, or are Edgware, Wembley and Bushey a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Harrow?

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 Harrow. 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
Wealdstone 153
Greenhill 138
Harrow 135
Harrow Weald 109
Belmont 107
Kenton 84
Canons Park 80
Little Stanmore 80
Headstone 45
Hatch End 32

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Harrow. 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 Harrow 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 Hatch End ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Hatch End (Best) 23828/32845
Belmont 21619/32845
Headstone North 21558/32845
Headstone South 21338/32845
Queensbury 20573/32845
Kenton East 20245/32845
Marlborough 16142/32845
Greenhill 14903/32845
Wealdstone 14700/32845
Harrow Weald (Worst) 14004/32845
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Your Health in Harrow

If you are thinking of moving to Harrow, 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 Harrow 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%
Hillingdon 1.01% 3.43%
Harrow (Harrow) 1.1% 3.47%
Three Rivers 0.84% 3.06%

The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Harrow. 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 Harrow. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;

Ward Average rank in England
Belmont (Best) 31573/32845
Queensbury 30638/32845
Headstone North 30613/32845
Headstone South 29235/32845
Hatch End 28334/32845
Kenton East 27927/32845
Marlborough 26834/32845
Harrow Weald 25239/32845
Wealdstone 23101/32845
Greenhill (Worst) 22080/32845
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Deprivation in Harrow

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 Harrow. 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
Headstone North (Best) 26815/32845
Belmont 25288/32845
Hatch End 24515/32845
Headstone South 21126/32845
Queensbury 20942/32845
Kenton East 17234/32845
Harrow Weald 16363/32845
Marlborough 15802/32845
Greenhill 15370/32845
Wealdstone (Worst) 13073/32845

Average rent in Harrow

Every six months the Office for National statitics publishes a snapshot of rental costs. These statistics for Harrow 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 Harrow.

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Harrow

If you are thinking of moving to Harrow, 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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