Schools
126 open schools are in scope, including 67 primary and 17 secondary schools. Woodlands School is the nearest published school at 370 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HA8 6UG
Canons · Harrow · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Canons
- Local authority
- Harrow
- Constituency
- Harrow East
- Postcode district
- HA8
- Postcode sector
- HA8 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HA8 6UG
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 April 1986
- Terminated
- 1 December 1990
- Postcode area
- HA
- Postcode district
- HA8
- Postcode sector
- HA8 6
- Latitude
- 51.608055
- Longitude
- -0.288692
- British National Grid easting
- 518,600
- British National Grid northing
- 191,300
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Harrow · E09000015
- Electoral ward
- Canons · E05013543
- Parish or community
- E43000205
- Westminster constituency
- Harrow East · E14001270
- Output area
- E00010619
- Lower layer super output area
- Harrow 002E · E01002118
- Middle layer super output area
- Harrow 002 · E02000434
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore HA8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 126
- Primary
- 67
- Secondary
- 17
- 370 m
Woodlands School
Community special school
- 525 m
Camrose Primary With Nursery
Community school
- 707 m
Krishna Avanti Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,725
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,380
- Anti social behaviour 745
- Vehicle crime 482
- Burglary 454
- Other theft 358
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- HA8 6 residents
- 11,417
Age bands in HA8 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 31.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.9%
2,208 residents
1,395 residents
3,725 residents
2,776 residents
1,772 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
GP practices
49
within 5 km straight-line
BACON LANE SURGERY
11 BACON LANE, EDGWARE, HA8 5AT
ODS code E84014
947 m
ZAIN MEDICAL CENTRE
EDGWARE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL, BURNT OAK BROADWAY, EDGWARE, HA8 0AD
ODS code E84653
1.2 km
LANE END MEDICAL GROUP
2 PENSHURST GARDENS, EDGWARE, HA8 9GJ
ODS code E83053
1.3 km
THE STANMORE MEDICAL CENTRE
85 CROWSHOTT AVENUE, STANMORE, HA7 1HS
ODS code E84057
1.3 km
HONEYPOT MEDICAL CENTRE
404 HONEYPOT LANE, STANMORE, HA7 1JP
ODS code E84039
1.3 km
OAK LODGE MEDICAL CENTRE
234 BURNT OAK BROADWAY, EDGWARE, HA8 0AP
ODS code E83032
1.3 km
MOLLISON WAY SURGERY
45C-46 SOUTH PARADE, MOLLISON WAY, HARROW, EDGWARE, HA8 5QL
ODS code E84075
1.4 km
PENSHURST GARDENS SURGERY
39 PENSHURST GARDENS, EDGWARE, HA8 9TN
ODS code E83030
1.4 km
THE STREATFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
177 STREATFIELD ROAD, HARROW, HA3 9BN
ODS code E84646
1.5 km
JAI MEDICAL CENTRE (BRENT)
82 STAG LANE, EDGWARE, HA8 5LP
ODS code E84020
1.7 km
JAI MEDICAL CENTRE
114 EDGWAREBURY LANE, EDGWARE, HA8 8NB
ODS code E83038
1.7 km
WATLING MEDICAL CENTRE
108 WATLING AVENUE, BURNT OAK, EDGWARE, HA8 0NR
ODS code E83018
1.9 km
KINGS EDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
132 STAG LANE, KINGSBURY, LONDON, NW9 0QP
ODS code E84699
2.0 km
STREATFIELD HEALTH CENTRE
1 STREATFIELD ROAD, KENTON, HARROW, HA3 9BP
ODS code E84018
2.1 km
MULBERRY MEDICAL PRACTICE
3 SEFTON AVENUE, MILL HILL, LONDON, NW7 3QB
ODS code E83046
2.1 km
PARKVIEW SURGERY
36 CRESSINGHAM ROAD, EDGWARE, HA8 0RW
ODS code E83028
2.2 km
DR SP TALPAHEWA
MEDICAL CENTRE, 156 DEANS LANE, EDGWARE, HA8 9NT
ODS code E83668
2.2 km
BELMONT HEALTH CENTRE
516 KENTON LANE, KENTON, HARROW, HA3 7LT
ODS code E84069
2.3 km
THE CIRCLE PRACTICE
BELMONT HEALTH CENTRE, 516 KENTON LANE, HARROW, HA3 7LT
ODS code E84004
2.3 km
KINGSBURY HEALTH AND WELLBEING
245 STAG LANE, KINGSBURY, LONDON, NW9 0EF
ODS code E84078
2.4 km
Showing 20 of 49 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
St Lawrence Church
BCT · Canons Park
- 0.1 miles
St Lawrence Church
BCT · Canons Park
- 0.2 miles
Canons Park
BCT · Canons Park
- 0.2 miles
Montgomery Road
BCT · Little Stanmore
- 0.2 miles
Canons Park
TMU · Canons Park
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Harrow 002E, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
3 of 10
Overall England rank
9,428 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
4,725 published events cover 12 months, averaging 393.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,380 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.