Edgware
WardWest Barnet. About 20,574 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 3.3 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Edgware live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Edgware compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Edgware safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Edgware at a rate of 94.6 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 92.0 per 1,000 people across Barnet.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 112 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Edgware.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were anti-social behaviour (503), violence and sexual offences (343) and other crime (222).
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Figures for the whole of Barnet
These figures are published for the whole of Barnet, not for each ward, so they describe all of Barnet and not Edgware alone. See Barnet
Edgware in brief
Edgware had 19,998 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Edgware live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Edgware, 84.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Edgware, 4.4% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.