North Harrow is mostly working families and homeowners, with a growing minority of renters. About six in ten own their home. The typical resident is in their late thirties. A quarter of households are couples with children. Most people who live here are still mid-mortgage and raising children.
The 2021 census, which every population figure on this page comes from, counted about 66,000 residents. About 59% of households own their home, 29% rent privately and around 11% rent from a social landlord. Private renting here is steady and established, made up mostly of flats and converted semis.
The median resident is 38, and about 31% of the population is aged 25 to 44. In those years most people's money is going on childcare and mortgage payments.
Modelled household income was about £81,000 a year before tax in the financial year to March 2023, averaged across the area's 12 middle-layer zones by the Office for National Statistics. It is a gross figure and an average across very different streets. It shows what households earn, not what they have left after the mortgage.
About 25% of households are couples with dependent children, and around 12% are lone parents. Single-person households make up about 21% of the total. That 21% includes the 9% of households that are one pensioner living alone, so the two figures overlap. North Harrow is mainly a place where families live, with a sizeable minority of people living alone, some of whom bought here decades ago and stayed after their children left.
About 45% of adults hold a degree or equivalent, and about 16% have no formal qualifications. Full-time students make up about 3% of residents, so the area does not empty out and fill up again with the academic year.
About 86% of residents describe their health as good or very good. Harrow as a whole has a better preventable-death rate than England, and a smoking rate of about 9%, similar to the national figure. Both are borough figures with a national comparison and say nothing about any one street.
North Harrow is an ordinary mix of people. It is mostly young-to-middle-aged families and homeowners, with a solid core of renters and a small number of older residents who have lived here for decades.