Total Crime Rate
62.1 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
36.0 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Burnt Oak Broadway area has the 10th highest crime rate of 21 local areas in Edgware , and the 275th highest crime rate of 646 local areas in Harrow .
This postcode forms a relatively safe pocket compared with the surrounding streets. Neighbouring areas record much higher crime levels, even though this postcode itself remains comparatively low-crime.
The overall crime rate in the area around Burnt Oak Broadway (HA8 5FD) in the last 12 months was 62.1 per 1,000 residents and was 13.0% lower than the Edgware average (71.4 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 11 offences recorded. The least common crime was Drugs with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Other theft ( 100.0% YoY). Other major crime categories were broadly unchanged compared to 2025.
Violent crimes totalled 11 (≈ 35.9 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were flat ( 0.0% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -82.3% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Burnt Oak Broadway (HA8 5FD), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Supermarket, where police recorded 245 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Hospital (113 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Edgware| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Pembroke Place | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Supermarket | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Berridge Green | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Theft from the person | Supermarket | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Supermarket | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Supermarket | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other crime | Camrose Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Bacon Lane | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Bacon Lane | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Supermarket | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Garratt Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Garratt Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Penylan Place | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Garratt Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Zodiac Close | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Theft from the person | Supermarket | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Burglary | Bacon Lane | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Zodiac Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Hospital | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Supermarket | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Heming Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Hospital | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Hospital | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Hospital | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Hospital | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Hospital | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
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