North Harrow is about as safe as the rest of Harrow, which puts it in the middle. Its crime rate is almost exactly the borough's. Violence makes up a smaller share of crime than it does nationally. Anti-social behaviour and car crime make up a bigger share. Most of what happens here is a nuisance more than a danger.
The Metropolitan Police recorded 6,680 crimes in North Harrow in the year from June 2025 to May 2026. The published rate is about 85 crimes per 1,000 residents, almost exactly level with the borough. The police's online crime map breaks this down by road, and checking the streets around a house you are considering takes about ten minutes.
Across the London Borough of Harrow as a whole the rate is also about 85 per 1,000, against about 85 for North Harrow. Some neighbourhoods sit well above or below their borough, but this one matches its borough almost exactly.
North Harrow has about 8,900 people per square kilometre, which is dense for a place most people picture as semis with front gardens. Unemployment is about 4% and around 13% of households are overcrowded. These figures describe the area, but none of them explains its crime rate, and nothing here links one to the other.
The 2021 picture of crime by type gives a clearer idea than the headline rate. Violence and sexual offences make up about 28% of recorded crime here, against about 35% across England and Wales. That category covers a wide legal range, including common assault where nobody was hurt. Anti-social behaviour is about 25% against 16% nationally, and vehicle crime about 9% against 5%. Other theft is about 6% against 7%, shoplifting about 6% against 8%, and criminal damage and arson about 5% against 7%. So violence makes up less of North Harrow's crime than the national average, and the categories that run above it involve parked cars and noise in the street.
The Metropolitan Police, which covers the whole of London, charges a suspect in about 10% of cases, against about 12% across England and Wales. That ranks it 33rd of 42 forces. In about 53% of its cases nobody is identified at all. These figures cover the whole force and measure what happens after a crime is reported, which is a separate question from how much crime there is. If your car is broken into here, the most likely result is a crime reference number for the insurance claim.
North Harrow is an average area for safety. Violence is no worse than the national share, but car crime and nuisance are a regular part of living here.